[Note: Earlier problems with the photos have been fixed! Thanks for looking.]

It’s been a week, and a couple of days, since Ms. Kili died, and the cats have continued to show changes in behavior to compensate for her absence.

Romeo used to get social with Kili, regularly approaching her for mutual grooming, for example, or letting her share our bed, although he would actively discourage the other cats from being there. But over this past week, as the collection of photos show, Romeo has refocused his sociability on Duke. The two show up together in a number of pictures, far more than would have previously been expected.

Toby has returned several times for long naps in the corner of our bedroom, at the base of the cat tree, where Kili has been spending a lot of time at the end of her life.

And Ms. Annie is more out and about, rather than maintaining herself separately in another room from the rest of the cats.

So I don’t know whether you can say that the cats “miss” Kili, but she obviously had an important place in their social structure, which has now been shaken up by her loss.

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