Sunday May 10, 2020 Pic of the Day.

This is a scan of a film photo print of my cat Rotifer. This picture was taken on Christmas day, 1984. I found Rotifer in the summer of 1982 when out golfing with friends on a local golf course. I was never interested in golf, and in fact, the day I found Rotifer was the last time I ever golfed - and I never even finished that game. We went out on a Saturday morning and just before the green on the 2nd hole I think, there was a pond. My ball was near the pond, and when I went over, there was a soaking wet kitten right beside the pond crying and crying non-stop. There is a long story - too long for here - but the bottom line is, that I ended up stopping playing golf right then and there, and ended up with Rotifer. My friends were not impressed, and after that we drifted. I think that was the last time I saw them. He got the name because a "rotifer" is a type of microorganism living in pond water that has structures on each side of the head that (sort of) resemble the area of a cat's face where the whiskers come out. I had done a school biology project in the 1970's about rotifers, and so I was familiar with the name. That, plus I found him right beside a pond, and was wet - so I assume he had been in the water. Rotifer passed away when he was 17 years old in 1999.
Taken: December 1984.