The Ballad of Oberon
I’ve lost the sweetest cat I’ve ever known in my life.
Oberon literally showed up unannounced in my yard one on of the worst days in my life – a December day on which I saw my horse drown. It was almost like he was someone cluelessly showing up at the worst possible time asking “Hey, I heard you have a vacancy?” But there was something very different about this cat: not only was he immediately friendly, coming up to me awkwardly for pets and scritchies, but…my dog, Xena, hadn’t chased him away. She normally chased away any cats that weren’t “hers” (at that time, my cat Othello still ruled the roost, and Olivia had just been adopted a few months earlier and was still a kitten.) … Read more
