I grew up in a cat family. My early childhood was spent playing with Toby, the cranky black cat. A few years after he passed, we welcomed Luigi the tabby and Percy Jackson the tuxedo cat into our lives. These kitties were the only pets I’ve ever known. My dad absolutely hated dogs, and I turned out to be allergic to them, so it was always cats.
When I moved to Madison in 2024, I obviously couldn’t take them with me. They were my parents’ cats, so of course, I had no say in where they would be staying. It was a strange adjustment to be living without animals, I’d been doing so for over ten years.
I began to realize how much having a furry friend around the house does for you. How much they boost your mood, how they never fail to make you laugh. Many late nights were spent looking at cat videos on TikTok and missing my buddies back home…