Here's one of my favorite pictures of my Dad.
The cat in the picture is Rocky. Rocky passed in about 1997 if I recall correctly (he was 17 years old). We had cats with dog names in those days. The other one we had at the time was named Spike...because you couldn't really have a cat named Rocky without one named Spike.
I have no idea when the picture was taken, but it must have been sometime in the '80's, because Dad isn't really all that gray yet.
Good pic. I have a similar one of my dad somewhere around here.
He's gonna be grinning ear to ear come this November 2nd, passed or not.