He looked away as he told me that no one cared for him as much as his person, and that the rest of the family didn t have any time for him. Brutus got really sick one day, not long after he came here. The doctor did everything to try to save him, but he had very bad pneumonia and passed away. Faith came and told us all that Brutus was gone, and that she had called his former family to tell them. They told her that his special person had also died of pneumonia in the hospital.
Some bonds are too strong to be broken.
When cats grieve Last week, I was over at Benton s House, home of the TLC cats, talking to Mystic the cat. He does the same job with the new cats as I do with the new dogs. You know, it is so silly, he told me. People think that we are so aloof and independent that we don t mind if people give us up. It really hurts a lot.