We love you, Travis

Our brave cat Travis died peacefully last night. He had been in the hospital for ten days; he had made some improvements, but he wasn't eating or walking well. Yesterday, his blood test results were getting a bit worse, so we decided to put him to rest.

Travis was 19 years old; he lived a long and happy (we think) life. He was smart enough to pick out Jay as his human at the Manhattan Bide-A-Wee back in 1990, and he was nice enough to be my friend when I met him in 2003. Losing his eye in 1996 didn't bother him one bit, nor did being alone in a Tribeca apartment for four days after September 11, 2001 either (though he was happy to see Jay again).

He loved chin scratches, giving us stinky kisses, and finding patches of sunshine to bask in. He also enjoyed sitting on top of bills that we were paying, finding places to explore and keeping his dad company watching Jets, Nets and Cardinals games. He developed a later interest in the Internet, as he liked to monitor my blogging, and pizza. He made new friends, modeled, and celebrated holidays, though he was agnostic. And there's so much more.

We just love(d) him dearly and were very lucky to have him in our life. We believe he had a wonderful life.

A photograph taken in May 2007

Thank you, everyone, for your kind words and support. They have meant a lot to us.
With love, Jen and Jay