Scruffy The Legend

We lost Narla today. She was euthanized today due to an inoperable tumor. She was 16 years old. We love her dearly and she will be missed. She came to us as a feral kitten together with her brother who we named The Kitty. We kept The Kitty and gave Narla to Karen’s mother. After a few years we took Narla back because she was not very friendly (to say the least) and Karen’s mother wanted to look for a more friendly cat. Narla did not get along well with cats dogs or humans. We loved her anyway. Later in life, she became partially paralyzed due to a spinal chord compression. After that, she became much more friendly. She even became a friend of Scruffy during Scruffy’s last years. Ruby and Narla became friends. They did not play together, but did sniff each other and were generally pleased to see each other.

The Kitty also died a year or so ago. He was the one animal that I said near the end of my book who I thought was definitely healthy enough to last through the summer. He developed metastatic liver cancer. This was totally unexpected and came as quite a sad shock to us. Sir Prize also passed away. He just died of old age, and we had been expecting this for some time. Narla was the only surviving pet mentioned in my book.

We now have Ruby, Charlie and Chicken. You have heard much about Ruby and Charlie on this blog. Chicken is our new cat that we adopted shortly before we got Ruby. He is a very special cat and I will be writing about him in the future.

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