Sometimes I illustrate, usually snarky, posts with a picture of a little grey cat in one of her her many and expressive moods.  Today I want to talk about her for, as Benjamin Britten put it in Curlew River, “Today is an important day”.  Ten years ago this day the lemur and I had just dropped off a batch of foster kittens at the Humane Society.  We had seen them through the first hard motherless weeks until they were big enough, independent enough and healthy enough to be adopted by “normal” people.  To be honest, we were pretty much kittened out and we needed a break.  We had cleaned and packed up the Kitten Kondo and resolved to take at least a few weeks break before taking on another batch of kittens who needed bottle feeding every four hours day and night.   Continue reading →