[Leica] Slides the cat has gone to kitty heaven

[dkhong at pacific.net.sg (DKhong)]

Doug
Thanks for writing this. Too many people today do not realize that it's the 
little things that counts. Friendships and relationships should matter the 
most.
Dan K.


Doug wrote:
>Mark,
>So sorry to hear of your tragedy. I remember well a couple of years ago 
>sitting on a beach in the North of England
>and crying my eyes out after we heard from the vet that our Lucy had 
>passed on. On the day before we left
>for our annual holiday in the UK she was savaged by two free running 
>Dobermann dogs (whose owner had
>been instructed to keep them on leads after they ripped a Yorkshire 
>terrier to pieces before  its owners eyes)
>I'll never forget her look as she lay in my arms at the vets door - sad, 
>shocked, wide-eyed, she , as usual, pressed
>her nose against my face.  Then miaowed quietly as if to say  - well that 
>was it.
>She looked superficially ok after the vet had cleaned her of all the 
>slaver  and dirt, she had managed to get back home
>on her own, she'd probably been sunbathing on her favourite spot behind 
>the garden. We found her on the back step
>when her sister Posy came to us growling - which usually means something 
>needs looking at.
>So we left for the UK in high hopes that she would be ok when we get back. 
>The bad news reached us in England
>and I just broke up. Sad because she had gone and sad because we weren't 
>there to see her go.
>When we got back the vet said her sister probably wouldn't notice that she 
>was now alone - we thought he was
>right until, one night quite some time later , on TV, somebody in a film 
>said "Where's Lucy", Posy jumped up
>and searched the house and garden looking for her sister - so much for 
>cats not having a memory!
>Cats don't do much, don't come when they don't want to and our Posy seems 
>to want to commit
>genocide on garden voles, but  they always come when THEY know you need them.
>Posy has since developed a habit of tucking us into bed every night, 
>walking around the duvet and pressing down the edges
>before she lies down at the end of the bed, which used to be only her 
>sisters territory, and now refuses to leave the bounds
>of the garden.
>I hope Lucy and Slides meet up in heaven , where the fridges and cans are 
>always open,
>
>I shouldn't have written this , I can hardly see for tears again after all 
>this time.
>Douglas
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