She died about 10 years ago. I love and have loved all the pets I’ve ever had, but Pyxel was something special. She was very headstrong and did whatever she felt like, getting pissed off if you did something she didn’t like. But when she was in the mood she would be the sweetest thing in the world.

She was saved from the dumpster, along with her mother and brother. The mother had to be put down and a lot of the brothers and sisters didn’t make it from being dumped in a trash bag. But Pyxel and her brother made it and we adopted them from the rescue when they were very young still.

I remember Pyxel sleeping for hours in my lap, or in the cat bed on my desk. When I was working from home, she slept in the cat bed, till she got fed up, went for a drink and a snack only to get back and jump in my lap because it was her time and she would let me know it.

Still miss her every day.