The Kittyverse is shy a member today. Adloyada lost her cat to cancer. She talks about his life today:
There was another trick of his cat physics, which is how he managed to detect the sound of my car as it approached the house we used to live in in Stoke Newington. Do all cars have a distinctive sound? It couldn’t just have been the sight of me driving the car. We had a back garden, part of which was visible from the surrounding roads. And long before he could see the car, I could see the garden, and I’d see him leaping up towards the fence and trees, bounding across them to be there when I arrived.
And he always knew when it was me or my daughter walking up the path to our present house, even when he couldn’t see us. He’d come racing down the stairs and be there when we opened the door. He never did that for anyone else.
It’s a trick all cats have.
Sorry for your loss. I had my first Tig about the same amount of time. It hurt like hell. Amazing how much we can grieve for an animal.