For Dayle's Simple Pleasure Party: The Sweetest Cat on the Planet

Thinking over what to write for this week's simple pleasure, my little grandmother cat came to mind.

This dear, sweet animal is deeply entrenched in my heart. She came to our family as a baby. When we brought her home, she was a real tiny ball of honey-colored fur that fit in the palm of my hand, thus, the origin of her name,  Honey Cat.

She was born in the hot desert of Arizona and now lives in arctic tundra New England!  In the winter, she merely sticks her nose out of the door, backs up into the kitchen, and bolts like lightning up the stairs to the second floor. She's no fool. She keeps very warm, usually nestled in the most comfortable spot in the house, on top of the soft covers of my bed.

In her younger days, Honey Cat was quite the huntress.  Once, in Arizona, she even captured a twelve inch iguana (lizard) , brought her booty into the house, and dropped it, still alive, in the living room.  Talk about blood curdling screams that came from the mother of the house (me) when the iguana ducked for cover under our couch.  My daughter, brave girl that she was, got it out and set it free.

Honey Cat's health has been kind of failing. She picks at a special kidney diet food we buy directly from the veterinarian but her appetite is definitely off. She's losing quite a bit of weight and sleeps a lot, too.

      "She's a very old cat," the veterinarian told me at the last visit.  If it's true that one year in human terms equals seven in cat years, Honey Cat would be more than 100 years old, since she was born about 15 years ago!

I love this little cat with all my being. Every day I have with her is special.  She's a perfect delight and loves to be scratched behind her ears.  She is a Number One simple pleasure.

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