On Toby, the best cat in the universe, and Barnabas, the worst

No, this is not about The Worst Cat (which you should click if you don't know the site). This is about Toby, who was the best cat in the universe, and a little bit about Barnabas, who is still the worst cat because Toby set the bar so high.

I have been crying a lot in the last 24 hours, and I am a man who almost never cries. This is the reason why:

(© Susan Levy-Haskell)
I suspect Toby was always the best cat in the universe, even when he was a kitten whose owners called him Spider because he climb...