My editing buddy

As is the case with both cats in my life, Zack simply showed up one day. Milo, my other cat just wandered in my back door one day, announcing "I live here". Zack was abandoned at an animal hospital/boarding place and a friend who knew I would not be able to say no told me he had lived in a cage for over 6 months. His owners had come back at one point and took his brother, but not him. It's now become obvious to me why, Zack does not like to use a litter box in the traditional manner. He prefers to go NEXT to the litter box. Sigh. And since he is by my vets estimate 11 or 12 years old, there's probably no teaching this old cat new tricks. We've solved the problem by having no fewer than 6 litter boxes with lots of newspaper next to them. He is doing better and every time I get frustrated with him he does something like this. He just sits next to me on my desk as I edit and purrs like a motorboat. I don't even have to touch him, he just revels in being here. So what to do? So I clean lots of litter boxes every day; I think I'm giving him a good life for what time he has left.