GENE LYONS: Albert: A lion among us

He’d quit eating and drinking and grown feeble. We met them at the veterinary clinic to say goodbye to the greatest cat that ever lived and whose memory I will never forget.

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O f all the photos I have of our cat Albert, the one that best illustrates his unique, unforgettable personality is the one where he’s posing as “The Orange Dog,” a founding member of the three-dog, one-cat security team at Cypress Creek Farm, our place out in Perry County, Arkansas. There he is lying in the shadow of a small tree on a sunny spring morning, surrounded on all sides by approximately 300 pounds of large dogs, acting as if he’s completely in command. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content.

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