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\"Click<\/a>Today is Mist’s 11th Birthday (Observed). An estimated four weeks or so after birth, I found him in a storm drain, emaciated and bedraggled and infested and sick and infected and all that bad stuff. A trip to the Vet ER ended up with his right eye cauterized (which hasn’t stopped him from climbing, leaping, or catching frickin’ hummingbirds<\/i>); said eye became cancerous a few years ago, and had to be removed, giving him a permanent wink (we decided the little kitty eyepatch made him look too tyrannical).<\/p>\n

He’s a rather persnickity kitty, rather anti-social, but has mellowed with age. He remains lean and relatively active. Happy Birthday, Mist!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is Mist’s 11th Birthday (Observed). An estimated four weeks or so after birth, I found him in a storm drain, emaciated and bedraggled and infested and sick and infected…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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-2936","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":13764,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/17\/mists-tale.html","url_meta":{"origin":2936,"position":0},"title":"Mist’s tale","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 17-Feb-09 6:38pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I've told this story many times before, so apologies if you've heard it. 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