Thanks everybody. Including for the recent emotional support. I have seem to have a crisis every time I'm looking at the massive pile of data I've gathered and trying to piece it together to vocalize to the so called "authorities".. and each time I come to wrestle with how badly we've been screwed and the dark night of reality horrors our companions face and have faced tears me to shreds.

Scooter, sleep deprived,  (and too long for any cat furniture I've found) is hanging on & trying to catch extra cat naps after being up most of the night because of me getting up & down and working on stuff....& hopefully the lizard won't climb back up the screen and make her fall off again (she's made a peeky-poo gap at the curtain to watch for it) ..

I think I should do the same and get a cat nap for me, now...

Aww, Scooter looks great.  That's a neat scratching post/lounge Scooter is draped over.   

Scooter is a long one, isn't she?  I love this picture of her.  She does look like she's been doing an all-nighter. 

I note that even your curtains are ah, shall we say, appropriate for a cat lover?

Hope you can both catch some zzzz's.  Much easier for cats than for us, I think.