A picture of my cat Mouse from August 2004. I took this photo about a week before his 13th birthday and it's the best photo I ever got of him.
Mouse was my first pet - I got him in October 1991 when he was 2 months old and I had him until he passed away in March 2010 when he was 18 years and 7 months old.
His name comes from the daughter of his previous owner - she found him under her bed just after he was born. She shrieked when she saw him and thought he was a mouse. Obviously, the name stuck. He was the first of his litter (of five) to be born and was the runt, but grew to be a 15-pound cat.
Losing him was one of the toughest things I've gone through, as I'd grown really attached to him - he was in my life from the age of 11 until the age of 30 and helped me get through a lot of things while I was growing up.
I feel his memory should be preserved because he meant so much to me (and still does), so I'm posting this to the blockchain to make that happen. I still miss you, buddy.
