#6: Goodbye Bear

On my childhood pets, and how it felt to lose them.

Growing up, my family had four pets: Daisy, our blind and partially deaf yellow Labrador; Milo and Bear, our two personable and loving Tabby cats; and Joe, our blind and perpetually sick goldfish. Though the group was never alive at the same time, the four of them represented an emotional lineage that spanned over two decades—a lineage that punctuated o…