{"id":14196,"date":"2009-03-14T22:51:27","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T04:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=14196"},"modified":"2009-03-14T22:51:37","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T04:51:37","slug":"the-old-order-of-cats-changeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/14\/the-old-order-of-cats-changeth.html","title":{"rendered":"The old order (of cats) changeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So we&#8217;ve been a one-cat household for nearly a month now, moving on from <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/17\/hes-gone.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mist&#8217;s passing<\/a>. We&#8217;ve always had the intent of&nbsp;getting another cat, and &#8230; the time seems to be now.<\/p>\n<p>When Mist was diagnosed, I did some shopping around for a small memorial stone in the yard for him, similar to what we&#8217;d done for Sugar (alas, I couldn&#8217;t find again that vendor). I ordered it when he died, and it finally came this week. We had a small ceremony in the backyard this morning for him, burying his collar (which we took at the vet&#8217;s), and added his stone to that little corner of the yard. Enough time has passed that it was just nice closure, not particularly traumatic for anyone.<\/p>\n<p>And, tomorrow, we&#8217;ll be heading off to the Denver Dumb Friends League. And &#8230; probably &#8230; coming home with a new family member.<\/p>\n<p>Wish us luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we&#8217;ve been a one-cat household for nearly a month now, moving on from Mist&#8217;s passing. We&#8217;ve always had the intent of&nbsp;getting another cat, and &#8230; the time seems to be now. When Mist was diagnosed, I did some shopping around for a small memorial stone in the yard for him, similar to what we&#8217;d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/14\/the-old-order-of-cats-changeth.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The old order (of cats) changeth&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pets"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12892,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/09\/12\/rocking_on.html","url_meta":{"origin":14196,"position":0},"title":"Rocking on","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 12-Sep-08 2:31pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So today was the appointment to pick out stone for the front yard relandscape. 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