I’ve posted a zillion times about my passion for animals and animal welfare, and an incident today is prompting me to post once again. As I pulled down a residential street en route to a patient’s house, there, in the middle of the road, laid a cat who had been hit by a car. It [...]

Six weeks ago today I sat in a corner exam room at our vet’s office and watched Vinny watch birds fly by and then said my last goodbye to him as he went to the Rainbow Bridge. This morning I had a message board conversation with a volunteer from the shelter he came from. She [...]

Since the passing of our sweet Vinny at the end of May, there has been a tiny void in our household. We didn’t want to rush into anything since Vinny can never be replaced, but we definitely had enough love to give a new kitty. Today we went to MaxFund, the only no-kill shelter in [...]

Time does help heal. But the pain never completely goes away. I know that some people might think it’s silly that it’s been a month and here I am talking about Vinny again, but today has been a tough one for me. He was more than “just a cat”. Vinny taught me so much. In [...]

Things took a turn for the worse with our sweet Vinny last night. He had what seemed like a seizure, and his leg stopped working almost all together. He then hid under the dresser most of the night until I took him out to go to bed. When we were in bed, he would make [...]