Tabby orphan-of-the-storm Minnie and thoroughbred Princess Chi Qi are the same age, give or take a few months. They arrived at Gerolstein round about the same baby time, 18 years ago, and spent their earliest years being foster-sisterly together on the hearth-rug ...
Thereafter a sort of slightly uneasy entente-fairly-cordiale has existed between them. They have never snuggled up together, like picture-book kitties ... a metre or so between them (or one on each side of Wendy!) is the norm ...
Minnie is deaf, epileptic and arthritic at ?eighteen years of age; Chi Qi suffers from a variety of dental and digestive problems which have left her worryingly thin ... no more than at the present moment in time. But the old ladies have cohabited a long time ...
Wendy took this photo of the ailing Chi Qi yesterday. I like to think Minnie is watching over her ...
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