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We last saw Max on Sunday, July 29.\u00a0 I had a bad feeling that whole week – his water hadn’t been touched and he hadn’t been by, which is very unusual for him.\u00a0 We\u00a0have pretty much been unable to open a window or have a conversation in our pantry without hearing, “Mrrow?” and having him appear.\u00a0 The railing to our deck comes right up outside\u00a0the window in our pantry, and more than a few times he’s startled us by suddenly appearing in the window:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Even when the window’s been shut, if he could hear us moving around in there, we’d hear him calling for us.\u00a0 And if we were outside, unless we were mowing, he was right over to see what was up and keep us company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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I love hard work, I could watch it all day<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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The only time I’ve ever sat in the hammock, he came by for quality control<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I insisted that J email our next door neighbor about him on Saturday, August 4.\u00a0 We got an answer within an hour – he hadn’t checked in at home with our neighbor since Monday morning, and Max was as regular as clockwork at checking in with our neighbor.\u00a0\u00a0Max has never not shown up every day since he came to live with A.\u00a0 Our neighbor\u00a0suspects something\u00a0–\u00a0a fisher cat or a fox –\u00a0got him.\u00a0\u00a0There is so much undeveloped land around us – 450 acres of conservation land abuts our property, and much of it is wooded – it provides good habitat for predators.\u00a0\u00a0Our neighbor’s\u00a0other cat, Lily, has been crying and looking for\u00a0Max – she even came up onto our deck last Sunday, looking for him.\u00a0 We were on the sunporch, and she crept around, looking, and sniffed at the water dish we always leave out for him.<\/p>\n

I cannot even tell you how much time Max spent at our house.\u00a0 It was like he was our cat, without any of the vet bills.\u00a0 There wasn’t anyone who met him who didn’t think he was fantastic.\u00a0 We were no exception.\u00a0 We will miss him.<\/p>\n

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We last saw Max on Sunday, July 29.\u00a0 I had a bad feeling that whole week – his water hadn’t been touched and he hadn’t been by, which is very unusual for him.\u00a0 We\u00a0have pretty much been unable to open a window or have a conversation in our pantry without hearing, “Mrrow?” and having him … Continue reading Good Night, Sweet Friend<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sharing_disabled":false,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3f8I6-1b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":642,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}