Call Me Snake

A couple of years ago, I wrote about a neighbor’s cat who frequently strayed from our neck of the woods–the Riverside district of Cambridge–to the Agassiz area, which is about a mile away. Since my column was published, I’ve been frequently contacted by people who’ve spotted the errant cat ("Jasper da Gama") in the Agassiz neighborhood. Today, at Trader Joe’s, a guy I hadn’t seen for years who lives in that part of town told me that when he read my column some years back, he looked in his backyard and saw the wayward feline in question. Jasper is a real cat about town–too much so for his poor owners, who are constantly going all over the place, trying to track him down. But he’s doing his part to keep my writing relevant.