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He was always skinny. We never could get a good look at him as he ran through. He would often grab a bite to eat or get a drink of water and then he was gone again. I think he first appeared around 2014 or somewhere along then. About the time Bangals came. Bangals was much friendlier, and my youngest grown daughter immediately made Bangals a pet who sometimes stayed inside. Since he and Run Through were both gray tabbies, we surmised that they might have come from the same litter but there 52
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was no way of knowing for certain, and Run Through was a significantly lighter colored gray. Jannea tried often to pet the skinnier cat, but he was always busy just “running through,” so thus his name. This past winter, Mack set a Hav-A-Hart trap on our carport to try and catch a rascally opossum that we feared would harm our chickens. But the next morning there sat wide-eyed Run Through, complete with a runny nose, a raspy cough and with his right ear hanging on by simply a flap. Our five elderly cats
