Goodbye Musaeus, you wonderful tabby

A week ago

Yesterday was, shall we say, a really awful day. Our tabby cat, Musaeus, has not been too well over the past couple of months, losing weight like crazy despite being the one cat in our feline assortment who ate the most every dinner time. He’d also gotten into the habit of suddenly awakening at like four in the morning and then miaowing in the bedroom to make sure everyone was awake and could give him some loving. He’d also decided that having a sleep by the laundry basket was the best thing. Yesterday, he was there, miaowing every now and then until I stroked him and got him to purr. The last time was just after lunch, and I was worried enough to phone our vet to see if I couldn’t bring him in for an emergency checkup. Of course, I’d forgotten that our vet closes on Wednesday afternoons, so I resolved to take him in as soon as I could the next day, snowstorm permitting. But the next time I checked up on him a couple of hours later, he’d passed away and my heart broke. […]

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