Probably some recency bias here.
When we moved into our house, we had one cat, my girl Rain that I adopted when I was living in my apartment by myself. My wife had always had a cat, but had lost hers several years before. I stopped into PetSmart and called her to ask her to come out to meet me there. Her response was, "Why? We don't need anything from PetSmart." Well we did.
We brought home a big tortoiseshell cat a few days later. She was very sweet but also fairly standoffish. She would lay on your lap and get angry if you paid attention to anything, including her, other than being her seat cushion. She loved to steal food off my plate when I was eating in front of the TV or working through lunch at home. She was known to take macaroni and cheese (Our team pasta) off my fork. Once she hid behind my laptop and reached a paw out to knock a chicken tender onto the floor for herself.
When I had surgery a couple years ago and couldn't sleep in bed because the stomach muscles were still healing, she would sleep on my lap in the recliner all night. There were nights when I got up and she would squeak at me and then run to the spare bedroom because she wanted me to herself.
Back in March of 2018 she developed lymphoma. She beat it and went into remission for five and a half years until it finally came back and we had to say goodbye last month. And the house has felt so empty since.
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