Getting Back to Groucho

As I begin this section, Groucho has been living indoors for five  months; not bad for a cat who lived outdoors for 11 years—nine of them spent in my yard; I have spoken about this cat before, but to recap:


She entered the house on February 18, 2021, and I thought she would just stay for long enough to warm up. Wrong. Groucho knew when the time was right for her to become a house cat. For the first three months that she lived indoors, she lived upstairs in my sister's apartment. The last two months have been spent in the first floor apartment with me. She loves the closet that holds my bathroom's drop-in sink—the closet shares a common wall with the bathroom.


Because the closet is small and is the epitome of ugliness—old cracked and pitted plaster walls—my father long ago decided to sacrifice the closet to save some floor space in the bathroom, which is also fairly small.


The bedroom, which is now mine, has two closets, and my father felt the wisest course of action was to save the better closet, and put the one that shared a common wall with the bathroom out of its misery, while still putting it to good use. It is something that has always worked fine—and now the closet which houses the drop-in sink also houses Groucho, who has chosen to live under the sink. I got her a very nice bed, which fits the space perfectly, and she is as happy as the proverbial clam.

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  1. SusanOctober 25, 2022 at 7:23 AM

    It is now 2022, and Groucho is still living indoors. I can't believe February 18th of next year will mark two years of life for her as a house cat. She now spends her days in the living room, and sometimes she even lets me sit on the daybed! She's a good cat, and I am glad she is here with me.

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