But she's a teenager, in human terms not cat terms, now and is slowing down a lot.
She seems to have lost a lot of weight again and seems troubled by arthritis.
Which comes as a bit of a plus for her because we can allow her out in the yard for the first time since we rescued her from an unfeeling neighbor who had left her out in the rain as a very young kitten.
She no longer has the strength to jump to the top of fence or wall to escape.
So on those evenings that are warm enough for us to sit out on the patio at cocktail hour we have begun letting her join us.
She ambled back to the fence one of the first evenings and eyed it but knew she could never surmount it.
Since then she has stayed close to us most of the time.
She's never been a large cat but she seems to have shrunk in recent weeks and, as the saying goes, is just a shadow of her former self.
But she is still a love.
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