A Cat Named Darwin
“Hospice Care THE WEEKS PASSED. Our bond deepened, grew more subtle. Things were good. One afternoon at the beginning of March, I was sitting at my desk, writing and pondering, when Darwin came down the hall to my office. He walked slowly, tentatively, as if he weren't sure where he wanted to go, and while his movement appeared normal at first glance, something was not right. The sort of thing you don't recognize at the time but notice with shock later, in retrospection. He walked into my office... and meowed softly, a sigh of weariness and melancholy. He wandered over to the window behind my chair and crouched to jump onto the sill, where he liked to stretch out and gaze down on the neighbor's garden through half-closed eyes. He tried to jump, but he could not get off the ground and fell back feebly.
He tried again, pawing weakly at the sill, his white booties soft against the surface of the wall. Then he sank slowly to the floor, his footpads leaving eight parallel smudges in long streaks on the flat whiteness of the wall as his paws slid slowly downward.MoreLess
He tried again, pawing weakly at the sill, his white booties soft against the surface of the wall. Then he sank slowly to the floor, his footpads leaving eight parallel smudges in long streaks on the flat whiteness of the wall as his paws slid slowly downward.MoreLess
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