Farewell Baby Girl - A tribute
Most of you know that I had to put my sweetest kitty in the whole wide world to sleep on Sunday. It was really, really hard but I know that it was the right decision as she had chronic renal failure and had stopped eating enough food to get better about two weeks ago. She was eating enough to sustain life, but at what price? She was skin and bones and was so weak that she couldn't walk without great effort. So on Sunday when she couldn't make it to her litter box, I knew it was time. I don't think the sadness has hit me full force yet as we brought her to the same place that she was hospitalized in December. And I held her for her final moments in the same room that I went to visit her in two months ago, so it almost feels like she's still there and I'm just waiting for her to come back home. But she's not, and I've already cleaned up all of her stuff that I had set-up to make her last months more comfortable. When the full force hits me, it's going to be a doozy, I know it.
I got 17 1/2 years with her. That's longer than any other pet I've ever had. And we had fantastic times. She was such a snuggler so pretty much any time that I spent sitting, she was on my lap. And any time the I spent lying down, she was on my chest. She loved to just be held and carried around. She would put both of her paws around my neck and just hug me. We used to take her to PetSmart and she would sit on my shoulder like a bird as I walked around the store. She always responded with a meow when I called her name, and in earlier years would come running from anywhere in the house to be near me. She waited outside the shower every morning so she could go in and lick up the water after I was done and then would sit on the bathmat and watch me get ready. She would wait patiently next to the table to get the remnants of my cereal milk almost every morning. She loved to lay in the sun and snuggle under the blankets. All of these things she did pretty much up until the last two weeks. So to have these routines change after 17 years will take some adjustment.
She was so sweet and awesome that she converted non-cat people into liking cats. She taught Maynard how to be a good kitty and how to use the litter box. She converted non-cat liking dogs into liking her. She loved to play with her best buddy Kenya ( a dog) whom she grew up with as I got them both about a month apart when she was a kitten and he was a puppy. She was never the same after we had to put Kenya to sleep, she missed him so much, and now they are together in the animal-ever-after. And that makes me happy.
She loved it when we played the "We are siamese if you please" game, the "kitty of the Serengeti" game, and the "Oh what a feeling, dancing on the ceiling" game. She was such a good sport she would let you do just about anything to her within reason. She did not like the car however, and she would howl what I called the "death-moan" the entire way. But when she got to the vets, she would act completely normal and so sweet, that every vet she had ever seen remarked about what good, sweet kitty she was.
I am going to miss her soooooo much.
Kasey Blue, June 1, 1993 - February 13, 2011. Thank you so much for such a wonderful life together.You were the best kitty ever and I love you!
I got 17 1/2 years with her. That's longer than any other pet I've ever had. And we had fantastic times. She was such a snuggler so pretty much any time that I spent sitting, she was on my lap. And any time the I spent lying down, she was on my chest. She loved to just be held and carried around. She would put both of her paws around my neck and just hug me. We used to take her to PetSmart and she would sit on my shoulder like a bird as I walked around the store. She always responded with a meow when I called her name, and in earlier years would come running from anywhere in the house to be near me. She waited outside the shower every morning so she could go in and lick up the water after I was done and then would sit on the bathmat and watch me get ready. She would wait patiently next to the table to get the remnants of my cereal milk almost every morning. She loved to lay in the sun and snuggle under the blankets. All of these things she did pretty much up until the last two weeks. So to have these routines change after 17 years will take some adjustment.
She was so sweet and awesome that she converted non-cat people into liking cats. She taught Maynard how to be a good kitty and how to use the litter box. She converted non-cat liking dogs into liking her. She loved to play with her best buddy Kenya ( a dog) whom she grew up with as I got them both about a month apart when she was a kitten and he was a puppy. She was never the same after we had to put Kenya to sleep, she missed him so much, and now they are together in the animal-ever-after. And that makes me happy.
She loved it when we played the "We are siamese if you please" game, the "kitty of the Serengeti" game, and the "Oh what a feeling, dancing on the ceiling" game. She was such a good sport she would let you do just about anything to her within reason. She did not like the car however, and she would howl what I called the "death-moan" the entire way. But when she got to the vets, she would act completely normal and so sweet, that every vet she had ever seen remarked about what good, sweet kitty she was.
I am going to miss her soooooo much.
Kasey Blue, June 1, 1993 - February 13, 2011. Thank you so much for such a wonderful life together.You were the best kitty ever and I love you!