Here’s our cat, Bart. His name is short for ‘Bartimaeus’ (as in ‘blind Bartimaeus’ from the Gospel according to Mark, chapter 10). He is a purebred Abyssinian ‘thrown away’ to us nearly 13 years ago…’thrown away’ because he (and his sister Maggie, who died this past February) had severe corneal ulceration due to the feline herpes he caught from his mother at birth.
We are happy that he’s ours…as Wendy says, had he had perfect vision, he would have been a holy terror. He also would likely have been a prize-winning show cat.
Instead, he is an incredibly sweet cat who constantly tries to coax us into the bedroom to sleep…he loves being under the covers with the ‘big cats’.
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