10/11/2009 05:57

649 Big Orange's Return

The neighborhood stray cat, Big Orange, just made an appearance for the first time in months. I haven't seen him in a long time, and now he's not exactly Big Orange. He's thinner and smaller. I tried to ask him what his secret was. He just kept rubbing on my legs. I can't adopt this cat, because my own cat tore me up so badly the last time I tried to introduce them that I ordered a collar and considered putting her outside. And if I try to make him my outside cat, all of the raccoons and possums and skunks come out of the woods to eat the food. So what do I do? I don't know. This cat very clearly remembers that I used to feed him. We haven't met in months, but he still loves me. And here we come upon a winter, where I don't want to see him outside. But he survived last winter, so he'll survive this one. I hope. I just can't help him.