Intensely affected by Lucy's story
I am really besotted with domestic cats, and generally like them all. But some things about Lucy's pictures and your story about her really got to me. I just melted with affection, even over the Internet.
I recently lost one of my two elderly cats, with whom I am/was intensely bonded. He attained 17 years. He was my best friend, and my most kindly nurse. Just as you and Lucy, Sasha and I had our songs. I still sing to his picture on my computer monitor and still never retire for the night without saying "Goodnight, Sashymo". Your attitudes and routines are so similar to mine with my own cats that I feel a genuine kinship with you and Lucy.
It really is a "mixed bag" when a precious and beloved cat companion ages and declines. I feel it acutely in everything you wrote in Lucy's profile: there is a background melancholy there, ameliorated by Lucy's continuing presence.
Lucy is, of course, a very beautiful cat, and one can readily see how well you have cared for her. I fell for her myself, at once. That face!
Thank you so very much for having shared Lucy's pictures and story. It has meant a lot to me.