Friday Night Milli Tribute

Starting off, here's a pic from 3 years ago of how Milli and Saki got along:



They didn't curl up together ever, but sleeping one inch from each other isn't bad. Once they acclimated to each other after the first 5 months--"acclimate" meaning Saki deciding she didn't have to kill Milli anymore, and Milli learning how to fight like the calico tiger she was and have fun with it, their relationship was pretty sibling-like. Saki is a pushy extrovert, so when Saki pushed in--because Saki always goes where Saki wants to go--Milli alternately shared her space with her as in the above pic, swatted her off, or more characteristically ran away.

Saki was definitely depressed the first week and half after Milli died--perhaps as much due to the lack of leftover food to steal from Milli's perch as missing Milli, and the change in routine Milli's absence entailed. She seemed angry at me as well, perhaps wondering why I didn't bring Milli back home, and was spending most of the night out in the living room. She's gotten back to her usual purry, Stevie Nicks-meowing self the past few days. I haven't noticed a change in Tuxie or Moo, except that Moo has been much more comfortable walking up to and nosing Saki. Maybe she senses Saki's loss, or feels empowered by the absence of the other elder cat who lived with us before she came on the scene.

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