Our Dobly crossed the Rainbrow Bridge yesterday.
Mouser, birder, ratter, squirreler and fisherman (we returned neighbour's koi carp minus a few scales)
Eighteen years old, developed a tumour that proved inoperable/untreatable ... for the first time in more than 40 years we are without a four-footed friend in the house.
As okieinexile has hypothesized, there is a fixed number of s one can live with at any time before Mother Nature steps in and either adds or subtracts a .
It may take some time but at least one will show up to fill the void left by Dobly while he hunts alongside Jakie, Apache, Greycat and several other proficient hunters on the other side.
Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine