Monday, January 26, 2026
Thursday, January 22, 2026
Wednesday, January 21, 2026
Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Thank you
Not just for reading the books and for your patience, but for any prayers offered for Dargo.
He's been slowly eating a little at a time for the last few days. Tonight, he ate a normal amount of food and has been taking his thyroid medicine in his food again. However, that food has been anything we can get him to eat. With his IBD, that may not be able to continue, but we'll take what improvement we can get for now as long as he's eating.
He didn't have a fever, so we can only guess what the problem might have been. Pray that he continues to improve, and thank you for any prayers that have been or may be offered.
St. Francis, we ask your intercession for Dargo's health. Please pray for us.
God bless!
Monday, January 19, 2026
Sunday, January 18, 2026
Saturday, January 17, 2026
Friday, January 16, 2026
Saying good-bye... again
This will likely be our last Caturday as a household of four cats. My old Siamese has been declining for the last year. I didn't expect him to hit 15 years, but that passed a bit over three months ago. While we've been doing all we can to help him, the light has been dimming from his eyes as kitty dementia has been setting in, and he has been fussier and fussier about the limited food he can tolerate with his IBD. Nevertheless, he has held together, and, despite his sleeping all day every day for the last week, he's been taking his usual place on my bed when it's my night Rosary time; he's been my prayer buddy for all the years since I started the Rosary, and he still remembers and enjoys that part of our routine, the only routine he's been keeping.
Dargo is at the end of his life (we've been through this once before with our first cat, who lived to be 16). At this point, all we can do is make him comfortable and hope that he passes at home. It's not illness or his thyroid issue, teeth problems, or IBD this time. It's old age catching up to him. I believe Bilbo was sent to adopt us to ease this transition; the two are very different yet so much alike in how they love laps and snuggles under the covers that it's uncanny. (No wonder they became good friends in the nearly fourteen months since Bilbo became part of our household.)
I took this a few weeks ago of the two snuggling together.
We've done all we can for him. Although I expected this to come a while ago, it's still not easy. He's been a momma's boy all his life (since we got him at about 8 weeks old). Bilbo is a daddy's boy but snuggles with me when he can't have his preferred human. He's a bigger boy, though, and not Dargo.
I don't know how many days we have left with Dargo, but we'll make him as comfortable as we can.
God bless!

