Jonesey

I'm sorry Sarahh I've lost cats to and each one was harder then the last. Keep him in your heart and rememeber all the good times and he'll be right there when you need him
 
Aww . . .

:kiss:es for you and Jonesey, Sarah. I've lost a few furry family members myself. It's always hard to let the innocent ones go.
 
All I can say is that I have been there and I am sorry for your loss.

major hugs and kisses, my dear. :rose:
 
"We petted, we walked, we fed, we changed litterboxes, we played, we stroked, we sat sleepless on difficult nights. We cared, and did everything we knew to do at the time. And we looked in their eyes, and knew they understood that we loved them, and knew that they loved us...We need to forgive ourselves." ~ from www.PetLoss.com
 
Damn it Sarah,

You just brought Critter back to me and I'm sitting here with tears on my face.

And yet Magi, her son, is sitting beside my computer looking at me.

Now let me explain Magi to you, he is one of a kind and truly a loving cat, to me.

When Magi was still small he decided one night he was the Alpha Male in our place. He was tearing arund the place in an absolute frenzy and my wife and I found this amusing. Then I wandered into the bathroom for the usual reasons and he decided that this was not to be. Magi attacked me with all the fury of a small cat.

He climbed my leg with his claws while biting me in several places. He latched onto my hand with his teeth and I reacted. I threw him to the side. (Which resulted in several long deep tears in my hand.) He didn't like this and attacked with renewed frenzy, teeth and claws and blood in his eye. He hit the wall not once but twice. (There are still bloodstains there. I leave them there to remind myself of what happened and my reaction.) I had been drinking and couldn't allow this to happen. It was a battle royale.

When I came out of it I was sitting in the hallway bleeding from more than a couple of places and he was laying in the bathtub. I literaly crawled over to him and lifted him from the tub. He was beat to hell.

I sat with Magi for the next several days. Everywhere I went I moved him with me. I treated his cuts and I nursed him back to health. I slept beside him and he crawled onto my chest to sleep. I appologised to him I don't know how many times during this.

When he started walking again I was there. (By this time I was on major anti-biotics and unable to work because of his bites. I had several areas that had been diagnosed with Cellulitis.) When he needed to use the litter box I lifted him into it and when he was done I lifted him out. The only times I wasn't there was when I drove in to pick up my wife at work or we went shopping.

Now Magi sleeps on my chest at night, or if I roll over he sleeps on my pillow. When I sit in the recliner he is there with me and when I sit down to the computer he lays beside the computer. If I go outside during the day he runs out onto the patio and watches for me.

Magi's favorite thing is to steal food from me and to chew on my thumb. If I'm eating he will sit there quietly while slipping a paw out to snag a bite or two. If I'm reading or working on the computer he will grab my hand in his paws and litteraly chew softly on my thumb.

The other cats are loving but Magi is my cat. He has decided that I need him as much as he needs me and is always there.

The funniest thing is. He tolerates my wife scritching him but will always move away from her. If others are at our place he avoides them to the point of hiding, yet if I sit down he is in my lap.

Cat
 
I remember Critter. What a wonderful lady she was. :rose:

I also remember your bout with cellulitis. Scary stuff, that. Very glad you and Magi made peace. :)

We have a new kitten - she's a stray - and she is in my lap at the moment while I'm typing. She's mine. She chose me.

If I really believed in karma I would think that she showed up in time to help me deal with losing Jonesey. Maybe.

:rose:

We don't chose cats, they choose us.

So tell me about the new kitten. Name and stats. (Picture if you have one.)

We can't replace our friends and they are that if not more. We can however choose new ones.

Magi and I have more than made our peace. Magi is always there, he is my companion. He is a smart cat, he knows when to stand back and give me room. (Much to my wifes delight.:devil:)

Cat
 
She's in my AV now. We named her Pixie.

I saw her the first time in mid-March.

She was tiny, thin, walking across the back yard.

She made it about halfway before she stopped, then turned back towards the house.

When I next saw her she was attempting to eat old dog food that we'd put out for the birds.

I opened the door to put out a plate of dry cat food and she ran. Still, I left the food, and not too long after I closed the door she came back to eat in a very starved fashion.

We fed her for a few days while she kept her distance.

Then she decided that the "people who give food" must be okay. She talked to us, brushed up against us, wanted to be friends. Sweet kitty.

That's when we noticed just how thin and how young she was. Maybe 16 weeks - truly a kitten. What on earth is this baby doing wandering the neighborhood?

A couple of nights later it dipped way below freezing - snow and ice. I know - surprising for March.

So - yeah - we took her in. We kept her in daughter's bedroom for a few days to acclimate her to the house and to keep her separate from the rest of the cats until we knew she's free of disease. We treated her fleas.

She didn't stop eating for three days. She kept right by the dish, at times kept a paw on it.

She still hasn't settled in with the other cats yet, it's uneasy, but she hasn't been spayed yet. That will help.

But she sleeps on my feet, in my lap, or on my pillow, now that Jonesey is gone.

She's very smart. She's about to take over alpha male (which Jonesey was) because she's so intelligent. Once she gets a little bigger.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b318/sweetsubsarahh/Cats/PHTO0015.jpg

:rose:


What a truly lovely little kitty.

Smart and tough, the way I like my ladies.

She'll make her mark in your life I'm sure.

Cat
 
:rose:

Thank you, Cat. I think so, too.

Here's another pic.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b318/sweetsubsarahh/Cats/PHTO0023.jpg

You know, we aren't exactly certain how old she is. She has already been through two heats, surprisingly enough. Cats don't generally go into heat until they are at least six months old, so we are wondering if she suffered malnutrition enough that it compromised her size.

We'll get her spayed next month, the vet can give us a more accurate picture of her age. But she certainly is a lovely baby.

She chose me. I don't think Jonesey would mind.

:rose:

No, I don't think Jonesey would mind.

In fact I think Jonesey is sitting up in his field looking down and smiling that cat smile of his as he watches you love another. Cats are like that, they aren't jealous.

Cat
 
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