A THERAPY ANIMAL SPEAKS OUT: ZANCHE ON LIVING WITH HER HUMAN DURING THE EARLY MONTHS OF QUARANTINE

IN QUARANTINE: Early COVID-19 Pandemic Days, March-April 2020

From The Journal of a Therapy Cat

In the end all you can do for them is purr.

—Therapy Cat Handbook

Under the best of conditions the lot of a therapy animal assigned to a writer is not an easy one.  In quarantine, every difficulty you can imagine is magnified.

For it seems that my (solitary) writer-human is in the grip of a collective malaise that has settl…