Pets

short for Zenobie - a beautiful black queen of ancient Palmyra - was our beloved back cat of 17 years. When we received the call from the vet. that she had died, my husband, who had long believed that all animals belonged in the jungle until Nubie came into our lives, and I fell into each other’s arms and wept. A few days later when I was making our morning coffee I started crying and he said, “Maybe it’s time we did something about the ‘cat situation’.” That’s when I knew he was officially a “cat man”.

Coffee cup in hand, I picked up the newspaper and went right to the classifieds where I found a phone number and address for Patty. When I got home later that afternoon I walked into the house, set the cat carrier on the floor and Lottie ran out, jumped up onto the dining room table where my husband was working, and banged on the calculator with her paw. Emmy, her sister, emerged more cautiously. And so began our long and loving journey with our precious feline family members, named for Charlotte and Emily of fiction writing fame.