My Pillow Cat

[lavendertook]

It's almost 3 weeks since I lost my beautiful girl. The first 2 weeks were definitely the worst with all the second guessing and self berating and pity of her passing--this week has been up and down but a little higher up the spiral of being able to accept her passing and just grieving and missing her. I had the pleasure of phone conversations

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[baranduin]

*hugs to you and scritches to all kitties, whether present in the fur or not*

Kitty sleeping patterns is kind of a fascinating subject :-)

[lavendertook]

*hugs* All of them change over time, don't they? I left out the period when she'd sleep facing me and go all neutron paws into my breast and belly and complain when I'd pull her 100G force paws away from the nice soft pillows of my body. (-: She did save the sweetest for the last years.

Care to expound on kitty sleep patterns here or in an entry?

[febobe]

*gentle, loving, sympathetic hugs* I'm sure Tuxie just misses her so too.

[lavendertook]

He does, poor baby. I am grateful I can telework 2 days a week and be there for him when he wants to cuddle--he goes back and forth between sleeping in his new black fur bed that Saki spent a short time in on her last day, and cuddling beside me as I work. Today Moo and Tuxie were both on the bed when I left--not near each other, but there together--I hope their relationship might deepen now--we'll see. He is Moo's kitten and was her shadow his first 6 months, until she was done with him and Saki bonded with him. I wonder if they can rebond now.

[jan_u_wine]

....and the most charming of pillow kittehs no one could ever wish for......

along the 'pillow kitteh' theme, a Saki haiku:

A certain pillow.
A certain eternal friending:
Certainly Saki.

[lavendertook]

Thank you, bb. *hugs*

The softest pillows
With no sweet purrs amongst them
Bring paltry comforts.

[jan_u_wine]

oh, how sorrowfully true. The pillow of life collapses in the missing of what that pillow held....

(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((LT)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

[lavendertook]

*hugs* Saki hadn't been sleeping in her bed by the pillows for several months now, but staying in the living room instead at night, so I've been used to missing the way she slept by my pillow the last few years already. She helped me adjust to that before she died. I don't know if the withdrawal was a sign that her hyperthyroidism was better balanced, or if she were fading in ways her blood tests weren't showing, or just a phase she was in--she was ever changing in many of her habits every few months--my variety cat.

[pathvain_aelien]

Huge hugs to you. I know how hard it is to lose a dear feline friend! It's been almost three years since I lost my Brookes and it does get easier to remember the good times and how lucky I was to have such a great kitty for so long. I hope it gets easier for you, too. Hugs.

[lavendertook]

I have lost other dear cats, so I do know it will get better in time. Thank you. *hugs* My first cat was just as dear to me, but made it only 9 short years. 16 of her 17 years was a good long run of it I was lucky to have with such a loving and present being as Saki--so it will take some time to get used to her absence.

[mechtild]

Such darlings. I love "pillow time" with my kitties, too.