🐾 Caturday Tribute: Intrepid & His #1 Staff, Carl Leaver 🕊️
Some cats choose their humans. Some cats create them. Intrepid did both.
He entered our lives in late 2005, a tiny tabby-mau kitten rescued from the grass outside a professor’s home in Jordan, where we were living and working at the time. Fearless from the start—hence his name—Intrepid ate like a creature possessed, sleeping curled beside the food bowl as if it might vanish. Once he realized food was a permanent fixture, he turned his attention to the rest of the house… and the laws of physics. Kamikaze leaps across the living room, potted plants as landing pads, chaos as his calling card. He was our smallest cat, but the bravest.
He bonded instantly with Murjan, our alpha male, who mothered him with nightly snuggles. Murjan’s paws wrapped protectively around Intrepid in a feline embrace of pure love.
I left Jordan to return to the States six months before Carl did. Murjan came with me. Intrepid stayed behind with Carl. And that’s when the real magic happened.
Carl and Intrepid became a duo so tightly bonded it felt molecular. Epoxy-strong. Whether curled up on the sofa or stretched across Carl’s belly like a living, purring blanket, Intrepid made Carl his home. And Carl, in turn, made Intrepid his heart.
When Intrepid died of cancer in 2018, Carl was shattered. The world dimmed. And when Carl passed from cancer three years later, on August 16, 2021, it felt like the universe had gently reunited two souls who were never meant to be apart.
Today, their cremains rest together in a vault overlooking San Juan Bautista—a place they both loved. And on this Caturday, we honor their story: one cat, one human, joined in love, mischief, and memory.
To Intrepid and Carl—thank you for showing us what devotion looks like. May your adventures continue, wherever you are. 💫
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