Varmints I Have Loved

I’ve always thought of myself as a horse and dog person. When I was growing up, my family always had a passel of cats to go along with the herd of horses and mess of dogs. I liked the cats, but in my adult life, I simply never thought about having one. The four we have now changed all that.

This is our youngest cat, Fergus, a creature so frighteningly intelligent that I think of him as Feleinstein.

Ninotchka aka Fang, our curmudgeonly, manipulative, all-but-toothless eldest cat.

Cornelia, the cat that started the current collection.

That’s Spot on the left, sharing a nap with Cornelia. He showed up in the back yard one day, starving. I said we could feed him, but he absolutely was not coming in the house. Yeah, right. He turned out to be the best old boy cat in the world.