I Don’t Just Miss My “Old” Cat

Ryan Chin
Catness
Published in
4 min readJan 27

I miss all of her.

Baetis the Kiwi Queen. 2002–2022 born in New Zealand. Lived with me in ten different homes.

My old gal, Baetis, has been gone for three months now after two decades purring at my side. In her last years she slept on a window perch that my daughter and I made for her. There were times when her breathing was so slight I had to move closer to make sure she was still alive. Looking at the perch for Baetis was part of my daily routine until she passed.

Ryan Chin
Catness

Author of The Big Head Diaries, stories of a lab from NZ, and Without Rain, a multimedia memoir. Email:thechinproject@gmail.com https://www.ryanchinauthor.com/