Confessions of a Novice Cat Herder
Cat Herding can begin innocently enough it seems. All I blithely said at the time was, “I’ll deal with the cats.” On the face of it, that’s a benign enough statement, wouldn’t you say? Of course, it was, or so I thought at the time. However, a little of the backstory may be needed here to bring you to the facts of the matter. My brother had to move unexpectedly from his home for medical reasons and we needed to close up his house and sell it. He was to go stay with our sister 600 miles away where he would receive the care he needed. I live almost the exact distance away in the other direction myself. Our brother seemed to be dealing OK with the trauma of the move except for his two beloved cats. “But, what about the cats?” my brother had asked. Our sister could not take them, so that made it a dilemma. My wife is allergic to cats, so not a possibility there either. Our brother could not bear the idea of them going to the Humane Society or animal shelter. “I