Twice I’ve lost cats. The first time was only a few weeks after I’d moved to Philadelphia, and while I was at work my cat Spike managed to knock a window screen loose and fell to the ground and vanished. I had to go to a family funeral and was worried sick, but when we […]
My friend, Trisha, recently went through what she likes to call her ‘year of darkness.’ One tumultuous divorce, an ailing parent back East and three older pets nearing their end. Trisha clung to her chardonnay as Paul, her fifteen year old calico, jumped into her lap, dusting her black pants with a fresh layer of […]
The passing of a pet can often be the most profound loss with which any animal-lover could be faced, and, in many cases, can be overwhelmingly alienating as well. The truth is, you never really feel it the way it’s supposed to be felt until it happens to you. In many cases, the pain of […]
