Backroads: Barney the Social Butterfly

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Backroads: Barney the Social Butterfly

Back in February 2024, I wrote about a feral cat named Barney who has made his home with us for over eighteen years. He came as a wary adult who had been abandoned and never let us touch or interact with him in all those years. Until the week of Christmas 2023, when we thought he may have suffered a stroke that erased his memory because suddenly he decided the warmth of the kitchen woodstove might feel good on his old bones. He waltzed right in …