IS IT TIME TO WAKE UP?

No. It is only four in the morning.

I lay, trying to work out what had woken me.

I felt a gentle tug at my hair, which I ignored.

Determined to slip back into sleep, but it happened again and again.

I knew then it was Lily, the cat who has always wished to be mine.

Now she well and truly has achieved her aim and has been adopted.

A visit to the vets for vaccinations and an all-over health check occurred last afternoon, and she passed with flying colours.

She sometimes awakens me in the early hours for a quick run around the garden.

She used to be a cat flap cat, and we have no facility to have one.

We have provided a well-sanitised and renewable poo tray.

She sometimes, weather permitting, requests a night-time memory stroll.

I think it is a small price to pay, to love and be loved by such a lovely cat.

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