Tag: pets

A good ol’ cat shuffled off this mortal coil, or this small piece of it, earlier this month. Cookie (possibly not his name then) was a local personality for the better part of two decades, just about as long as we’ve been back in Amarillo. His origin is not clear. He belonged to a neighbor living in Quadrille Park across the street until the man passed away and was a frequent visitor to SA. When Zfam moved to Quadrille Park, they brought with them their two cats (and two dogs), one of which was a tuxedo cat like Cookie, named Elmo. Before we got to know Cookie, Joyce was outside and saw what she thought was Elmo. She began talking to him in a companiable sort of way until she realized the cat wasn’t Elmo. Cookie was allowed by his owner to come and go as he pleased, and he would wander across the street frequently. I usually try to discourage stray cats I encounter on the place, often chunking a twig, tennis ball, or whatever else comes to hand at them but I never did that with Cookie. Maybe that was because he seemed friendly.