This morning Charger seemed out of sorts. He started wrestling with Yang, but Yang thought things were getting too rough, started fighting back in earnest, and finally jumped up and ran away. Next, Charger went over to look out the glass door, joining Jennifur and Yin (who were getting along for once). Suddenly there was a shriek from Yin, who took off like mad with Charger chasing him.
Charger doesn’t normally hurt anyone like that, so we became concerned and Susan said, “What’s the matter with Charger?”
Like I knew. So (not being the cat whisperer in the family) I said, “Why don’t you ask him?”
There was a long silence. Things were quiet…too quiet (insert your favorite similar cliche here). Finally Susan told me what Charger had to say.
It seems that Charger’s mother had “called” to say goodbye. She was sick and her human had decided not to spend the money to have her made well again, so they were euthanizing her. In fact, Charger was saying his last goodbyes to her at that moment, having shown her what his life was like here, surrounded by friendly humans and other cats.
That kind of put a serious damper on the morning, but we’ve taken extra time with Charger to comfort him today.
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