5 posts tagged “cats”
I'm sorry to report that Huggy passed away on April 25, 2009.
Leaving me in a house with only one cat, a situation I haven't been in for about 15 years. Here is the only one left...
Carefully protecting us from the wild turkeys.
As I sit here trying to work, I wonder about all the animals I've loved and lost. My Ozzie, dog from growing up. I loved him so much. When he died, I couldn't speak of him for months, until finally my BFF had to ask me if he was dead because I just couldn't speak of it. I said yes, but I can't talk about it now.
And now, my Huggy. I'm waiting to hear if she has congestive heart failure or cancer. Not very good choices for a seventeen year old cat. Congestive heart failure killed Ozzie. I've never had a vet suggest I put an animal down, just like that. Of course I said no, I'll take her home to die.
Was it worth it? This pain, this heartbreak. Yes, it was. But it hurts so much.
So you know how it is. You need to sort out some papers and the cats want to help by sitting on them. Solly might even attack one in case it's trying to escape. So I want to get my daughter's student loan papers in date order and put them in a looseleaf. Huggy keeps lying on the looseleaf. But determination and perseverance pay off. I have the papers in single year piles and I am highlighting the dates so organizing them will be easy. I get up to get the looseleaf dividers and the cats are sleeping in perfect parallelness right down to the curve of their tails. It's adorable. All the paper shenanigans are forgiven. I run to get the camera. By the time I get back I see this...
They have moved...rotten, uncooperative fluffness. (Awfully cute though!)
and the sleeping is easy...
Mets was my son's kitty. She was named during baseball season (surprise!). Several years ago she got hit by a car and is no longer with us. She was a very unusual cat. She loved everybody and would like nothing better then when there were a lot of people over. She'd go from lap to lap.
Huggy is my daughter's cat. Here she is taking in the sun. She's 14 now. She is very vocal and has an assortment of intonations, some of which we understand. She likes to go in and out of the house and will have us open the door every 15 minutes. If you let her out and then leave, and the weather doesn't turn out to be to her liking, she will give you quite an earfull when you get back.
The boys are Handsome (the black & white) and Solomon. Handsome was my cat and Solly is my husband's. Yes, we're a family of four that can't even share cats. Handsome was euthanized on March 23, 2007 due to kidney failure. He has left a hole in all of our hearts but probably in Solomon's the most.
Solomon is 12 now. He is Mets' son. Mets, however, wanted nothing to do with him once he was weaned and she was spade. Solomon is very skittish and will run from sudden movements or noise.
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