13/07/2024
11.7.2024 RIP Erik.........
I started looking after this gentle soul, along with his brother Sweeney, in December 2019, and it was a long and rocky road to acceptance. Sweeney was the friendlier of the two, communicating with hisses or hisses, even while taking Dreamies from my hand. But Erik I just didn`t see. Even a year into looking after him, I`d still never seen him. In fact, I wasn`t totally convinced that he actually existed: was I dealing with Schrodinger`s cat?
Then, one day, a flash of black, disappearing into a mound of household effects! And so it continued for nearly another year. It was a difficult year for him, in which his brother Sweeney passed on, and he became the man of the house.
He obviously took his responsibilities seriously as, not long after, he stayed in the same room as me without fleeing. And so it continued, until he let me feed him Dreamies, and hey presto, we became friends! Pretty soon, whenever I went into the house, I`d hear a little thud, as he jumped off the windowsill, and a pitter-patter as he trotted downstairs to weave between my legs, purring and nuzzling all the while.
My hard-work, high-maintenance, worth-every-minute friend, Erik........
