Goodbye
It's been a rough few weeks.
Unemployment, Tyler's work struggles, missing home, being unable to be with our families for christmas, lack of friends, etc.
But today was real sad. I slept until 3, I just couldn't get out of bed, I didn't want to get out.
I got some mail and that always brightens my day, especially mail from home. My parents sent us some Christmas gifts to put under our tree and I knew that one of the gifts were our Sloan family pajamas my mom gets for each of us.
I got a phone call from my mom after I texted her to say thank you when she said she had some bad news...
After 17 years, our family cat Aggie is no longer with us. She was a smelly cat and usually dirty from being outside, but she was just a sweet old lady cat and she was our smelly cat. She never left our yard and she was always the first person to greet you when you walked up to our door. She loved to talk and to love on people. In fact, it all happened on Saturday, Laura came home from school on Sunday and the first thing she said was, where's Aggie?? she wasn't there to say hi to me when I walked up.
Yeah she was 17, and really it was amazing she made it that long, but she didn't deserve to go out the way she did. She was attacked by a neighbor's dog and was too old to fight back. My poor mom had to watch as she got mauled on our driveway. This dog has been a problem for years. When she was younger he would chase her up trees. A few years ago around this time he actually ran into our yard, chased her into our back yard, dragged her into the pool and my brother had to jump in and separate them and keep her from drowning.
As soon as the neighbor noticed the dog had gotten out, he went straight for our house.
I think part of what makes me so sad about this is seeing how hurt my mom and my sister are. Laura's pretty much known Aggie her whole life and my mom is just such an animal lover and a nurturer...just hearing her talk about it on the phone...how hard it was to hold her as the vet put her to sleep and to see her all beat up. My dad - who usually plays the part of the old grump, and talks about how dumb that damn cat is - helping to get the dog off her and telling my mom to get her to the vet and not to worry about the cost to just take her.
and that...even though she's so hurt...the only thing my mom really wants from the owners is a letter with a plan on how to keep their dog from getting out, to keep the other cats in the neighborhood safe. she knows its just a dog being a dog and that they're pet owners too. She could probably sue and win pretty easily...but all she wants is for them to build a chain link dog run in their back yard to keep him from getting out of their fence when he goes out in the back yard.
Laura just wants her cat back and she's angry that the owners didn't do anything 4 years ago when they watched him fight her in our own pool, that they didn't take any of it seriously until someone else's pet was killed, because it wasn't their pet getting hurt.
I just want to go home and be with my family.
Goodbye my duchess, my Aggie
Unemployment, Tyler's work struggles, missing home, being unable to be with our families for christmas, lack of friends, etc.
But today was real sad. I slept until 3, I just couldn't get out of bed, I didn't want to get out.
I got some mail and that always brightens my day, especially mail from home. My parents sent us some Christmas gifts to put under our tree and I knew that one of the gifts were our Sloan family pajamas my mom gets for each of us.
I got a phone call from my mom after I texted her to say thank you when she said she had some bad news...
After 17 years, our family cat Aggie is no longer with us. She was a smelly cat and usually dirty from being outside, but she was just a sweet old lady cat and she was our smelly cat. She never left our yard and she was always the first person to greet you when you walked up to our door. She loved to talk and to love on people. In fact, it all happened on Saturday, Laura came home from school on Sunday and the first thing she said was, where's Aggie?? she wasn't there to say hi to me when I walked up.
Yeah she was 17, and really it was amazing she made it that long, but she didn't deserve to go out the way she did. She was attacked by a neighbor's dog and was too old to fight back. My poor mom had to watch as she got mauled on our driveway. This dog has been a problem for years. When she was younger he would chase her up trees. A few years ago around this time he actually ran into our yard, chased her into our back yard, dragged her into the pool and my brother had to jump in and separate them and keep her from drowning.
As soon as the neighbor noticed the dog had gotten out, he went straight for our house.
I think part of what makes me so sad about this is seeing how hurt my mom and my sister are. Laura's pretty much known Aggie her whole life and my mom is just such an animal lover and a nurturer...just hearing her talk about it on the phone...how hard it was to hold her as the vet put her to sleep and to see her all beat up. My dad - who usually plays the part of the old grump, and talks about how dumb that damn cat is - helping to get the dog off her and telling my mom to get her to the vet and not to worry about the cost to just take her.
and that...even though she's so hurt...the only thing my mom really wants from the owners is a letter with a plan on how to keep their dog from getting out, to keep the other cats in the neighborhood safe. she knows its just a dog being a dog and that they're pet owners too. She could probably sue and win pretty easily...but all she wants is for them to build a chain link dog run in their back yard to keep him from getting out of their fence when he goes out in the back yard.
Laura just wants her cat back and she's angry that the owners didn't do anything 4 years ago when they watched him fight her in our own pool, that they didn't take any of it seriously until someone else's pet was killed, because it wasn't their pet getting hurt.
I just want to go home and be with my family.
Goodbye my duchess, my Aggie