My cat, Holly, loves to lick bags, but at this point she does it when she hasn't been fed soon enough to her liking, because she knows I absolutely HATE it.

I had a dream like that. A few years after my grandfather passed, I was going through a very stressful period and was struggling with depression. I dreamt that I was sitting with him in the sun porch at my parents' house, and was just telling him everything that was going on and that I was having a hard time. In the…

IIRC, he was diagnosed with manic depression/bi-polar disorder years ago. It's not uncommon for people with that issue (and other mental illnesses) to seek out "relief" through self-medication, which is likely what led him down the road of drug and alcohol addiction.

This is just so, so sad. He was such an amazing man, but depression can be a terribly difficult beast.

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I downloaded one of those cat apps for Hollycat, but she was not interested. If I play "Happy Happy, Joy Joy" via youtube on my phone? She will charge across the apartment to rub her head on the phone as hard as possible and purr away.
She is totally my cat.

I watched it- was a fairly depressing episode, especially because 1) it's the only time I ever heard Jackson Galaxy actually SUGGEST that putting the cat down might be a serious option 2) after the episode was over, the cat attacked the nice foster couple and had to be taken away and put in an animal hospital for…

You spelled his name correct in the first sentence, then misspelled it throughout the rest of the article. o_oa