Lovely Friday cat blogging

The larger cat is Jude, my first cat, at age nine months, around August 1970. The smaller cat is Clotilde; it was her first day at our house.

Jude lived 19 years, 8 months, and 1 day. He was a spectacularly wonderful cat -- vocal, affectionate, fastidious in his personal habits, and a great watch cat for Older Child Soprano when she was a baby. We had to put him down on Older Child's second birthday. I still miss him nearly twenty years later.