It was the kind of place where everyone knew each other’s name, and the name of their cat, too.
— Phaedea Patrick, The Messy Lives of Book People
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The kind of place I grew up in. But dogs, horses, and cows as well as cats.
Tinker, Kitty Boy, Trixie, Sissie, Pansy, Miss Pedulla, Rider, Walker, Steve, Walter, Roscoe, Two-Spot, Loretta, Smoky, Sudsy, Polio, Bootsie, Josephine, Lassie, Blackie, Queenie. Rowdy. Randy, Windy, Blaze, Mahalia, Moses, Sam, John, Wilma, Tiger, Lady, Blaze, Flicka, Mickey, Pilon, Ichabod, Sissie, King, Mutt, Peppy, Sam, Coaly, Tippy, Steve, Goody, Eegie, Sandy, Tommy, Rags, Jolie Blonde, Tramp . . .
Those were other people’s pets, not mine. Duplicate names refer to different animals.
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M. K. Waller 