Weekend Countdown - Day 35: 27th Day of Dallas County Shelter in Place

This photography edition features my cat Aslan Jr., who is no longer with us.  Aslan was adopted from a shelter in Collin County.  When we went to pick him up, we thought we were picking up a female orange tabby, since that is what the ad said.  Instead, it was a male.  While we were in the facility meeting him, we noted he had a pretty badly wounded tail.  That wound ending up sealing the deal for us because the shelter was known to put down animals that needed vet care above and beyond shots, because they just did not have the funding to do anything else.

So we brought him home to join the group of  6 that we already had.

I was super partial to this cat as years before I had had another orange tabby that I loved - Aslan Sr.  He was a wild, unpredictable, lovable animal that I had gotten from a waitress who rescued him and his siblings from a trash heap my first year out of college.  Aslan Jr. appeared to be from the same mold as Sr. was.  

He was constantly getting into trouble and doing the most unpredictable things (like climbing my ladder and hanging out while I was painting!) I snapped a lot of pictures of him over the years, but I loved to catch him sleeping. That boy could sleep anywhere at anytime.

We had him about a month before we realized the reason for that - he was deaf!  Totally deaf and so he could and would sleep whenever he felt tired... did not matter what else was going on around him - he would just curl up someplace safe - like a box.  Or sprawl out across whatever I was trying to do (usually work).

His most endearing quality though was his desire to be touching me while he slept.  I have many awkward selfies of him sleeping on one arm and leg while trying to take a selfie with my free hand... providing I had my phone nearby.  But a foot was good too...

Over his short life that I had him, he was the source of many laughs, great joy, and much comfort.  He was also very expensive as he chewed through no less than a dozen phone charging cords, and broke countless items that were shoved off of high and low places.  Nothing was safe on a shelf if he could reach it.  I had a sizable investment in earthquake paste, and eventually glassed in shelving for anything I wanted to keep safe from his love of watching things fall.

Thanks for browsing my sleeping edition of Aslan.  I will do a "Hey mom, look where I am" edition when I round up the photos!  Have a restful, peace filled day.