Sabrina was a good cat.
Date: February 27th, 2009 @ 00:30
Sabrina, 2008
I’m not terribly fond of tacky, morose pet memorial websites, so I’ll keep this upbeat and relate a few funny moments.
When my (now ex-) wife Cindy and I first saw Sabrina, she was a tiny blur of a kitten living outdoors. She was pretty skittish, and tended to retreat to a drainage ditch when approached. One winter, the night the temperature was supposed to get to -10° F, which is very cold for Maryland, where I then lived. Neither of us, nor the neighbor who had often seen her, thought she had much of a chance if things got that bad, so we increased our efforts to catch her. We managed to lure her into the apartment entryway, where her escape routes were cut off. Her ears were already wind burned, and would remain so for a few months, so I’m glad we got her when we did. Her coloring was a tabby tortoiseshell, cats of which are female 99.67% of the time. Read more »
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