Press your chest against the dentist's vest, you special presley's.

Welcome to the Blind By Podcast.

I'm out of sorts this week because unfortunately my lovely little cat, Silicon Thomas has died.

I mentioned on last week's podcast that he was experiencing flu-like symptoms and he was,

his nose was running, his energy was down.

And then after last week's podcast he took a last Thursday, he just took a sudden turn

for the worse.

He started to kind of wander around the back garden in a delusional way and he was pressing

his head against walls.

He wasn't eating, he wasn't going into his bed, it was no strange behavior.

Now what you have to realise with this little cat, Silicon Thomas, who you all know from this podcast.

He was a wild cat, he was fully wild, a feral cat, him and his sister, Napertendi, who

was still alive.

They bought a lift up my back garden in a small little wooden horse that was made from

what a bed inside the horse and they'd sleep together and I'd feed them but neither

of them were ever my cats.

There was no domestication whatsoever, even though I had a bond with Silicon Thomas.

And he'd slow blink at me, throw the glass of the door and I'd slow blink at him and

he was comfortable around me, I could never ever touch him, I could never get closer

than maybe a foot to him, even when he was eating his dinner and he was fully absorbed

in the task of eating his dinner.

Sometimes I used to try and put my hand down and just rub his little forehead with my finger

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