Happy Birthday, Jenny

Jenny just had her 18th birthday! That makes her the longest-lived cat ever to grace our lives. She's still a healthy, active, and often feisty Princess, who shows no sign of slowing down except for a mild touch of kidney disease, which we're managing to keep under control. She can hold her own in a fist-fight, and has been known to punch the crap out of another cat who isn't behaving toward her in a manner befitting someone in the presence of Royalty. She's truly a credit to her race!

None of our other kids - 23 current and 24 who have crossed the Rainbow Bridge, have lived beyond 17 years and a couple of months. One of the truths we've had to accept along the way, is that one almost always outlives their companion animals. Losing one is never easy, but we have lots of fun memories and at least 4 or 5 boocoodle photographs with which to ease the pain of loss when it occurs.

Here's to our former kids: Misty, Odyssey, Felicity, Felix, Fanny, George, Ira, Sarek, Amanda, Julian, Andrew, Josef, Michael, Borris, Erroll, Clara, Hildegarde, Winston, Tiger, Alicia, Darius Meow, Igor, Johann...

And our current kids: Dmitri, Yoda, Beverly, Gerald, Wanda, Amy, Lucia, Alessandro, Domenico, Carmen, Cecilia, Frederick the Grey, Elvis, Ralph, Diana, Robert, Lavernne, Patty, Maxene, Jenny, Nikolai, Martina, Sarah...