Untitled Thought Project

Untitled Thought Project

Drinking The Air

"Everybody has to live with a dead cat."

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Catherine Lacey
Jun 28, 2026
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The last (and strangest) manifestation of my dog’s dementia was that he’d sometimes hover his mouth above his water bowl, as if to drink, and instead just lap at the air.

As I watched him drink the a…

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