Pets
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Late-night musings #27
Our cat follows a strict schedule and lets us know incessantly in a varied presentation from gentle meows to unabashed screams. Without our cat, we could easily sleep in throughout the day. We’re just glad he is around to keep us rolling. Read more
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We feel like drifters again
I don’t know what went inside the mind of our little white furball when I put him in his travel backpack, along with his small black squirrel toy, and brought him outside to be carried away by a stranger to a cat-boarding house for the Christmas break. One moment, I roused him from his deep Read more
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Old bird
While doing my laundry, I was surprised by how brave a Eurasian tree sparrow is, eating food scraps at an arm’s length. It also kept peculiarly bobbing its head my way, making me wonder if it’s just the bird checking out on me. Was it afraid I’d sneak out on it? Later, I realized why Read more
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We lost a cat today
An orange two-month-old kitten, to be exact. We can’t figure out how we lost him. And the mother keeps calling him too. But no. We never found him at all. He’s been lost a couple of times already. He used to wandering off by himself, but we always find him in the nooks and crannies Read more
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Letting Sam go
It’s true that it takes a neighborhood to raise goats. But if you’re raising them not as a pet but as a source of extra income, and end up treating them like pets anyway, letting them go feels like a breakup. I also learned how our other goats felt sad or bad or distraught about Read more
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