Special Cat

Mon, Aug 12, 2013 (11:08 p.m.)

Rick Mills and Kia, his Burmese Siamese cat, have spent 24 years and four months together. She’s the oldest Burmese cat on record, a veterinarian told him. “I’m 76, and I’ve had that cat almost a third of my life,” he said. But on July 26 — “18 days ago,” Mills clarifies — the pair received the bad news, typed in bold print on discharge papers from Kia’s stay at an animal hospital.

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