{"id":4470,"date":"2011-08-19T16:22:46","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T14:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/?p=4470"},"modified":"2011-08-19T16:22:46","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T14:22:46","slug":"my-little-lynx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/my-little-lynx\/","title":{"rendered":"My little Lynx…"},"content":{"rendered":"
Wednesday 17 August 2011<\/div>\n

It’s true that hardships come in twos – another life lost too soon this week belonged to my dear cat Lynx, whose curious little face is smiling at you from the top of this site.
\n\"Lynx\"<\/a>
\nMy mom, brother and I are all allergic to cats so never had pets, but I was so desperate for one that I adopted a great diving beetle<\/a> we found in the pool when I was 7 (and bizarrely it died on the 17th of August too). One day in 2001 a ginger cat adopted us and brought another one with him a little while later. We called the original cat Hammond (because he used to eat the ham off our uneaten school sandwiches) and his white-tinged friend Lynx, because of his\u00a0 pointed eartips.<\/p>\n

Our love for those ginger nuts grew into a bit of an obsession and we’ve collected a formidible bunch of furry friends since they first appeared. How there can be people that dismiss cats is beyond me – they’re as unique as people (and even more human than some) with their own quirks and personalities.<\/p>\n

For some nerdy weekend project or something back when having pets was new to me, I made a ‘personality profile’ of each of our cats, Lynx’s likes were listed as: sleeping, chatting, being cuddled, eating, cardboard boxes, purring – a simple creature but a lovely one. Puff never stopped purring. He was gentle and friendly and, even in his early teens, still as playful as a little kitten. He was hyper-possesive of a certain chair, had a really cute little voice and loved singing – that is, if you sang to him, (the higher the better) he’d go into a blissed out state and start purring and nuzzling you.<\/p>\n

I’m grateful for the 10 years he chose to spend with us, I’m just sorry there won’t be more and that his life had to be taken from him.<\/p>\n

\"Dinks\"<\/a>\u00a0 \"me<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Lynkie\"<\/a>\u00a0 \"Felix,<\/a><\/div>\n

\"Puff\"<\/a>\u00a0 \"Puff\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Paws\"<\/a>\u00a0 \"Goofy<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Lynx\"<\/a>\u00a0 \"Dinks\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Goodbye my poor boy Lynkie, I’m really going to miss you.<\/p>\n

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