My long time friend and faithful pet Edgar passed away on April 26, 2007 after 16 1/2 years of eating, sleeping, playing and pooping. His 9th life was taken by a slew of ailments that could best be described as "old age". It wont be the same without him around. He has been in the family since I graduated from college in 1990. I have few friends that I've known that long. Here is Edgar's story... Edgar was born in the fall of 1990. He and his brother Felix joined the family while I was living in Sherman Oaks, CA while I attended the Grove School of Music. Edgar and Felix were little tiny kittens when I first brought them home. They were extremely cute. This photo here is New Year's Eve 1990. My friends Andrew and Keri Hunter visited and we all enjoyed playing with the kittens. Both Edgar and Felix were hyper-playful as kittens. They would chase each other around the house for hours on end. For the first year of their lives, we lived in a small house in Sherman Oaks that had a cat door in the back door. They raced in and out of this door all day long. I think they were very happy there. Edgar was always VERY mellow and was pretty unflappable. I think he got this from spending a lot of time with my friend Lisa Camasi's Golden Retriever, Dori. Dori was very mellow dog and this got Edgar used to being around other animals. Even in later years when families of raccoons would come and eat his food at night, he'd just sit and watch them. My buddy John Martin moved in with Edgar, Felix and I in early 1991 and then we all moved to Hermosa Beach that summer. Edgar and Felix were great beach town cats. Tragically, Felix met his end under a car within a year of moving to Hermosa Beach. Edgar looked lost and lonely for several months but eventually got back to his dorky, cute Edgar self. While Edgar was very fussy about what he would eat, he always did enjoy a big plate of spaghetti. Here we are in my apartment on Bard Street in Hermosa Beach having dinner with Edgar. In 1993, I moved to Bayview Drive in Hermosa Beach where Edgar really learned how to relax. He especially enjoyed his leather sofa in the sun room. Then on Thanksgiving, my friend Lisa shows up with a kitten and I'm a pushover for kittens so I end up with a new buddy for Edgar! We called her "The Baby" The Baby was full of personality and brought back the kitten in Edgar... even if he had to share his leather sofa. We lived there on Bayview for a couple of years and then moved to Huntington Beach. We lived on a busier street than Bayview had been and the unthinkable happened to our Baby when she was still just a kitten. That was a terrible loss for everyone, including Edgar. But he was always the survivor and kept on being Edgar. When I moved to England for two years from 1996-1998, Edgar lived with my friend Ara and his (then girlfriend) wife Erin in Santa Monica. There, he got to live with more animals again. A dog and a cat as I recall. (Ara, I can't thank you enough for that huge favor!) When I returned to the USA in 1998, Edgar was already 8 years old and a lot more like a cat than a kitten but still with the Edgar personality. We moved into a flat in San Francisco with my friends Dave and Cori Mires where we lived for one year before buying our first real house and moving to Menlo Park in 1999. Edgar was so glad to be an outdoor/indoor cat again after being confined to the indoors for several years in Santa Monica and San Francisco. This allowed him to take baths outdoors as you see here. We lived in the Evergreen house in Menlo Park for 6 years. Edgar met Ruby when she was a few days old and they were instant buddies. Edgar had been afraid of little kids his entire life but never feared Ruby at all. He would let her pick him up, hug him, kiss him or whatever else she wanted to do. Ruby will really miss Edgar too. Edgar's health really started to decline in 2006. He spent a lot of time at the vet in the last two years of his life - much as many of us humans do. He started to lose a lot of weight in mid-2006 and had whithered to a mere 4 pounds just before he passed away. It was so sad to see him deteriorate and even sadder to see him go. But, that is the great circle of life and we will all go through it. Edgar touched the lives of many people in my life. I hope you all have fond memories of him to carry with you. We certainly do.