So, we had a stray-ish cat running around here for about a year. She was gross. She slobbered, she drooled, she had a Bubba Gump lip that made it impossible for her to eat food in any manner other than shoveling it all in her face and then dropping slobber-covered bits everywhere. John and I were feeding her because the people that brought her to the apartment complex from the place they used to live weren’t feeding her. They have two huge dogs, three other huge cats and four daughters. So, John and I would throw some food out every morning for her to slobber on. She’d look up and say “Mayyyert.” which is why we took to calling her The Mert because we’re use to calling our cat The Stump. Maybe Bubba Mert if we were feeling silly. Well, the people with the 2 dogs and three cats and four daughters? They moved out about a week ago. They took The Mert with them. 🙁 Even though she was gross, I miss her silly face and silly “Maayyyyert.” The photo above is the last shot I took of her, sacked out on our porch table after stuffing her bubba face.