After a long struggle with congestive heart disease, chronic renal failure, pancreatitis, and struggling with some degree of blindness for the past 10 years, my best friend Felix has passed away.
I adopted him from the Michigan Human Society shelter in midtown Detroit in 1993. I looked at him sleeping in his cage. He woke up and noticed me looking at him, and started purring - very loudly! I invited him to come and live with me, and he accepted the challenge.
He was named after Felix Mendelsohn, who I believe was named after a cat. Here's a little video clip of him.
I'm grateful for every moment I knew him.