How Toothless Helped My Sister and I Bid Goodbye to Kitty
When my sister and I went to watch ‘How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World' we were looking for an escape. We had just lost our pet of more than ten years, our family member, Kitty, the cat. We came looking for an escape to a kids’ theater, where we were the only adults who came without children of our own. While the children were busy with the play area available within the theatre, we were seriously focused on the movie — a franchise we had been watching since the first one came out, always convinced that Toothless looked like Kitty. But if that was all before, it got more intense during ‘The Hidden World’. In the third installment, Hiccup bids goodbye to Toothless as his dragon finds his way home and we found ourselves identifying so much more with Hiccup than we ever imagined. Toothless was there to protect Hiccup in moments of distress, just like Kitty was there for us — separately, in moments we needed her the most. For me, it was in 2014, when I found mys