Carbon Crosses the Bridge
I have been endeavoring to encourage Patty to be optimistic, but I fear my own hesitations may show through. Carbon had not been doing well at all. She had a LOT of spirit, but EVERYTHING she took in comes back out moments later. She was always tiny but had lost weight to become a wraith. About a dozen years ago, one of ours passed on and we took in two from a friend's auto repair yard. We left a cage with him and said put two in it. He said he didn't have to put any in it, a grey and a tabby went in on their own. We had a tabby, so she became 'CopyCat', and her littermate became Carbon, a.k.a. 'BonBon'. BB has been OK with me being near, and my stopping to chat with her, but has NEVER let me touch her more than a brief. fast strike. CC varies by the day and hour. Last night BB was definitely animated and calling quite demandingly for food. We gave him about a half tsp of goat's milk that she held down for about 45 minutes to an...
