Larry and I have had 17 or so felines as members of our household. Babycat was the only one to be diagnosed with dementia.
One of our daughters had brought Babycat home from a party. She and her sisters named him Babycat because he was a kitten, not realizing he would not always be so, and would wind up somewhere in the middle of our cat roster.
In his later years, Babycat took to howling piteously at a corner of our bedroom ceiling, every early evening and sometimes during the night too. We assumed he was responding to mice scurrying across the attic floor.
But Babycat was likely sundowning. And shortly after, our vet said Babycat probably had dementia. We became accustomed to the plaintive howling.
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