Pets

I dug out a pair of old sandals to use as slippers after that one.

My lovely, sweet kitty was good enough at rodents to eat them in situ, at least the livers. I left them in situ for any local scavenger and they were gone the next day.

One day back in Boston, she brought me a full grown squirrel. I don't know if she killed it or just found it, but it was impressive. It was on the porch and I said good kitty, what an indomitable huntress, should have named you Diana. She strutted into the apartment and stuffed her face into her kibble bowl. I toed the squirrel of the porch, it was gone the next day, tail and all.

She was the cat who figured out how doorknobs worked, so there was no way to keep her in or out of any room.

She's been gone for 20 years and I still miss her.

Given the variety of their diet, it's a miracle cats haven't been more implicated in zoonotic spread of influenza.