
Pumpkin
Went home February 14, 2026
Pumpkin runs the house now
Eight months ago he was hiding behind our radiator. Now he has his own windowsill and a person to read to him.
Pumpkin was the shyest cat we’d had in years. Sam visited him four times before he’d come out from behind the radiator.
‘He chose the windowsill on the first evening,’ she wrote. ‘Now he chooses everything: the sofa, the bed, my breakfast.’