Adding One More Cat?

Well, I'm debating working one of our two new cats in real life into the strip. Molly has a mini-ear, she was found by (or turned over to) animal control last fall with a healed former hematoma on one ear and potentially some loss of sight on that side of her head. We can't tell how much, but she looks like a bobble head doll when she's trying really hard to triangulate on something.

Anyway, her little ear is deformed and feels like an old piece of folded/gnarled leather. She's fine with it, it's not hurting her, but I was going to introduce a cat with the same problem into the 'household' with the other guys.  Her markings will be easy to do - the vet classifies her as a 'white tiger', which means she's mostly white with some black spots and brown/ticked markings and a dark raccoon striped bushy tail.  In the right light I can see more stripes on her, but mostly she looks like a white cat with blotches and a 'racing stripe' on her left side angling back to her tail.

The Art Made A Connection

Funny thing how comics connect to people.

I did an event where I had the first two issues available on the table.  People generally bought the set, not single issues (nice!) and several vendors purchased some too.  The event was a few days long. On the second day one of the vendors came over to talk about the cartoons. She’d read them all the night before. I told her how a lot of it was based on our own cats, but that we’d lost Dax to cancer a year before.

She said “Oh, not DAX!”

That threw me. She obviously was more upset than an average person hearing about someone’s pet passing away – then I realized that based on just a few strips that Dax had been in as a specific character, she had been ‘made real’ for a complete stranger.  Enough so that the person was actually shocked at hearing about her passing.