ABIGAIL -- A LOVE STORY...

Your initial thought may be “that is an upside-down cat.” But her human, my longtime friend Ann Godwin, posted the photo with this entirely accurate caption: 
“Abigail truly relaxed.”

When I saw the photograph I thought, “Someone needs to run a ‘Most Relaxed Cat in America Contest’ and pay off with a big chunk of dough.” Ladies and gents, Abigail is clearly your winner today!

She’s the spotlighted kittycat in this weekend’s edition of our long-running feature, “Let Sleeping Dogs Lie & Napping Cats Nap.”
I have known Abigail’s human Ann for decades. We worked at The Dallas Morning News for years and years — long before Abigail was born! [LARRY FYI: In our exchange regarding this relaxed cat, Ann included a note to my funspouse, the animal nut Martha. Ann wrote, “I am so glad Martha is still on the job of taking care of you. You know the old saying: Behind every man there is a much better woman.” Yeah, I mighta heard that a time or two since the wedding in 1991.]
So, what’s the story of Abigail? It’s a love story, as you’ll read in Ann’s explanation. She writes, “Abigail was a stray kitten not much more than six months old. She had taken up residence on my front porch and quickly became pregnant. After having her kittens, I had all of my neighbors looking everywhere in their backyards but we could not find them.

“So after about four weeks, I asked Abigail to bring her kittens to me. I had a box with a blanket on the porch and after a few days found one gray kitten in the box and, later, a neighbor showed up with the other five/
“I found homes for the kittens and took Abigail to be fixed and the rest of the story is nothing but LOVE ❤️😽❤️😽❤️.”

Well, clearly there's a little love in the explanation of that photo of Ann and Abigail.
Ann wrote, “Abigail doesn’t like it when I am playing on my phone, so she gets between me and the phone.”
And, that, ladies and gentlemen, is a love story.
[PLEASE SEND photos of your sleeping dogs, napping cats, snoozing gerbils or out-like-a-light in-laws hogging your recliner to [email protected] and we’ll spotlight their stories in our weekend feature, Let Sleeping Dogs Lie & Napping Cats Nap. You’ll be encouraging people to give wonderful animals a great home. And you’ll be suggesting to us skeptical insomniacs that we, too, can get some sleep if — as Abigail demonstrates —they’ll just turn upside-down in a cat bed (available in most major stores), stick at least two paws in the air and twist their necks just right. I swear that might work; I concede it might not. Insomnia is The Beast That Never Relaxes. Loving cats continue to show us the way, but we cannot follow!]
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