Not long ago, a reader stopped me on Church Street in Burlington, Vermont and asked, “Do your cats still play turd hockey?” I admitted that our five are a little older now, and have accepted the realities of age. “Now it’s more like shuffleboard,” I told her. And then she asked me about Funny Face. […]
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The other day, a woman brought her cat into Dr. Peggy Larson’s Cat Spay and Neuter Clinic in Colchester. She wanted the animal spayed, but stressed that she was pro-life and did not want the cat to have an abortion if it was pregnant. Larson asked whether there was any chance of this, and the […]
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Among my boyhood dogs in Connecticut was a small mutt named Beauregard. How small? He came to mid-shin. He was so homely that one of my older brother’s friends insisted he was the offspring of a pig and a rat. But he was among the smartest and happiest dogs I ever met. And every morning, […]
Earlier this month, my wife and I were awakened by a mouse. . .in our bed. On my pillow. In truth, it might actually have been the cat that woke us up. Hard to say, in hindsight. She brought the mouse into the bedroom, either because she wanted to share it with us or because […]
Earlier this month at the wildlife sanctuary that I call my house, I caught a bat under a plastic Tupperware layer cake cover. The bat was flapping around the kitchen. The day before that, my wife found a nest with six squeaking baby mice in the closet in our den. And, best of all, we […]
According to Faith Resnick, “People who hate cats will come back as mice in their next life.” That means that people who hate kittens will come back as a laser light. Or the plastic seal at the top of a milk carton. Sure, there are curmudgeons in this world who hate cats, but even Winston […]
