Of Cats, Characters and Compassion

The current herd of cats in the Hoyt household consists of four feline masters:

Miranda, 14 year old Cornish Rex Tortoise shell. We acquired her with the proceeds of my first sale. You see, I had looked at our previous clowder (another four, which are now in urns on the mantelpiece. Sometimes it worries me that people will look at it and think we’re crazed cat killers.) and I thought they were all getting oldish (about 12 to 14) and I thought “if we don’t get a kitten, in the next four years a...