Chapter 5

“Glad you agree, even if Grandmother never did.” Del leapt to his feet again and started pacing with excitement. “Do you know how many Lassies they used over the years? When one couldn’t perform, they just brought in another. We do the same thing. It’s business,” he said. “The more Gingers we have, the more media we can crank out. No one would know the difference. You see one orange cat, you’ve seen them all.”

“Don’t say stuff like that!” Baily covered my ears, but I still knew what that jerk, Del, was getting at. Someone needed to neuter him, at least metaphorically.

“Grandmother’s corporate acumen and creative foresight was of the highest caliber. Who else could turn a plain, ordinary, run of the mill animal into an empire?”

Charles Shultz, Jim Davis, Walter R. Brooks, to name a few. Though my Katherine was the best of all of them.