❤️🐾 Caturday Valentine: Bootsie & The Cat Next Door
A love story told on four white paws. Bootsie didn’t start out as anyone’s cat. He was a friendly neighborhood stray who liked to visit the two little dogs downstairs. They’d go outside for fresh air, and he’d trot over like, “Ah, my entourage has arrived.” One day he simply followed them back inside… and stayed. Just like that, the neighbor had a cat she never meant to adopt — a tabby gentleman with four perfect white feet. She named him Bootsie, because of course she did. Life was good. Bootsie had dogs to supervise, humans to charm, and a whole hillside to patrol. And then she appeared. A muted orange tabby — a proper young lady, elegant and self‑possessed — discovered Bootsie. No one knows how she found him. Her home was at the bottom of the hill. Bootsie lived at the top. But love, as we know, does not care about elevation. Every day she made the pilgrimage up the hill. Every day Bootsie came out to greet her. They played. They hunted gophers together (...