Cool Paw Luke
I have a theory, untested and totally unscientific, that cats experience a profound change around eight years old. It's just something I have been lucky enough to experience. I have lived with a lot of cats. I have loved them all, every cat, any cat. You could say of me that I am a true cat person. Oh, I love dogs too, but not just any dog, certain dogs, but any cat. Sometime in the spring of 2017, my neighbor, who is a nurse by profession, brought me a ginger boy kitty. She called him Fluffenutter because he was orange and white, irregular spashes of both unceremoniously distributed with no regard to symmetry, except for the white tips on each ear. He was everything a ginger cat should be: funny, silly, and totally endearing. Our collie became his surrogate mother. He would make biscuits and attempt to nurse in her ample fur. She would clean his ears and snuggle with him, occasionally snorting directions. She is a herding dog, after all. I named this ginger boy Cool Paw Luke. We...
