Glacial Erratics

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cdent/16193250/    (Q6M)

Last night Tanuki passed away. He was away at the special vet for a rhinoscopy to finally get some resolution to or at least some knowledge about his continuous suffering with an always infected, sneezy nose. Sometime overnight, while in recovery after a large unknown foreign body had been removed from his nasal cavities, his brain gave up and he was no longer able to breath on his own. Maybe a stroke, nobody's sure.    (Q6N)

Tanuki was always a charmer, from the day we took him home from the shelter surrounded by kittens and cats that were far more cute at a superficial level. I will miss him terribly.    (Q6O)