The Power of our Pets

My attention was drawn to a heart-warming story on www.msnbc.com about a cat named Dewey, and the town that loved him. Read on . . .

He was a yellow tabby with twinkling green eyes who arrived in the overnight drop box of a farmland library one frigid January night. Dewey Readmore Books became the library's star boarder and an international celebrity.

Now he's the subject of a best seller that chronicles the struggles of the library worker who found the trembling kitten, the town that embraced him and Dewey himself.

“Dewey, the Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World,” by Vicki Myron and Bret Witter, has 336,000 copies in print and has quickly climbed to the top 10 on The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly and other lists of best sellers.

Although Dewey is no longer with us, his spirit lives on with the residents, visitors, and acquaintances that knew him. He reminds me of my Little Jack - always there with a soft purr, and the insistence that he curl up in my lap when I'm at the computer. It's no surprise that they guy at Office Max extracted a wad of golden yellow fur from my computer mouse! I was mortified - I just thought the mouse had given up, but it was just cat fur! Hehehehe!