Old Cat Ollie, and the Price of Compassion

X-posted at my jounral Terminal Berkeley Denizen

Last year my cat Jadzia went missing, and I searched everywhere for her. No body in the surrounding areas, no cat, nothing. She just disappeared. (Yes, she is chipped.)

My search for Jadzia involved repeated visits to many of the area animal shelters, especially the one in Berkeley California, my hometown. (We never found her. She's still missing more than a year later.) There were two cats who were always there when I went to visit this shelter in Berkeley. They were always in a larger kennel with several other cats. One was a big black cat with a white "beard" who always looked as if he were scowling. The other was a slim and small tabby.

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