{"id":103,"date":"2015-05-07T20:54:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T20:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/?p=103"},"modified":"2015-05-07T20:54:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T20:54:04","slug":"walters-gone-on-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"Walter’s Gone On Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Walter\"<\/a>
Walter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When you live on the road full time, life comes along with you. It’s not like a vacation, where you can imagine that things are on hold for a while.<\/p>\n

Case in point, my intrepid traveling companion, Walter the Cat, has crossed the Rainbow bridge, as people like to say.<\/p>\n

He was a wonderful traveling companion. When he’d hear me start hitching up Flo the Airstream, he’d get get settled down in his traveling position – under\u00a0the covers on my bed.<\/p>\n

When he’d hear me returning, he’d be at the door meowing. I always imagined him saying, “Hello! Now get in here and feed me!”<\/p>\n

At the end of the night, he’d follow me to the bedroom and jump up and get cozy. When it was really cool – or even cold – he’d snuggle under the covers with me.<\/p>\n

\"Walter<\/a>
Walter and me on a chilly day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the last month or so, Walter really started failing. First he started refusing to eat. I tried him on all sorts of canned food. For a while, \u00a0he would lap at the sauce and eat a bit of the meat. In the end, he wouldn’t touch it and he would only sniff at his water.<\/span><\/p>\n

One thing I have learned in my travels thus far is that there are always people out there to help. My thanks go out to Tammy and Dr. Devon at Valley Animal Hospital in Tucson, who treated me and Walter with great kindness.<\/p>\n

Walter was a great companion to my father. He thought Walter had a limp, so he named him after Walter Brennan. Personally, I thought he had more of John Wayne’s swagger than Walter Brennan’s limp.<\/p>\n

\"Dad<\/a>
Dad and Walter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In any event, Walter has gone on ahead and there is a hole in my heart today.<\/p>\n

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