Dear Friend,
I thoroughly enjoyed your treatise on Harry. You writing skills are wonderful, truly, and I can see where you might have a book on your life with Harry in the offing.
However, there was one thing which gave me concern and that is Harry's morning habit of going outside. It's been said cats should never go outside, ever, because there are just too many things which can happen to a cat when they do. City life has it's own dangers but living in "the high lonesome" as you do, there are myriad numbers of dangers your Harry could encounter; please bear with me while I list a few- the coyotes you mentioned earlier which you suspected had killed Harry's family; hawks and eagles; bobcats; cougars; bears (?); venomous reptiles and arachnids of various kinds; feral dogs, etc. I'm sure I've missed some. I just ask you to reconsider your allowing Harry to go outside. He's much less prone to internal parasites, too. The plain fact is, indoor cats live longer. All the kitties I've had which lived inside exclusively had long lives, one as old as 17 and I have one now who is going on 16. Harry may miss going out for a while but he'll be a lot safer for it. That's all I have to say about that...
You're very blessed to have Harry, and he to have you. May the Lord bless you for your heart for him and for taking good care of him.
Take care and thanks for sharing your wonderful Harry with us. Harry reminds me of a kitty I had in the 1970's and 1980's, a big, gray tabby named "Humphrey". I lost Humphrey to bone marrow cancer in 1987 and if I think on him much even now, I can get wet-eyed over him. He was a very special kitty, like Harry.
My love to all in my Lord Jesus,
Jim Grayson
Lexington, Kentucky
USA