[Leica] Slides the cat has gone to kitty heaven

[jls at runbox.com (Jeffery Smith)]

You have my condolences, Mark. I have had cats around me since 1957, and
losing them over the years is always painful. You were lucky to have so
many years with her, and she was lucky to have 20 with you. The current
feline who owns me seems to know that I hate the alarm clock, so she
wakes me up very consistently at about 5 minutes early (she screwed up
two Sundays ago, but cats don't know about DST). Actually, I think she
hates the alarm and wakes me up so I'll turn it off before it sounds.

Hope that you'll get another. There's plenty out there who need a good
home and considerate owner.

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark@rabinergroup.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 5:55 PM
Subject: [Leica] Slides the cat has gone to kitty heaven


> To the many LUGnuts who have had the pleasure of meeting my longtime
of 20
> years cat and favorite photosubject, Slides the Calico, she died
peacefully
> Monday of renal failure.
> Which is what usually gets old cats. Their kidneys. She had gotten
heart
> breakingly thin.
> Here is a picture of Slides and me a few years ago in which Tom
Christianson
> took in my studio.
>
http://students.washington.edu/tomchr/pictures/Summer2001/Portland/Portl
and.
> htm
> I think with his Contax 645 and transparency film.
>
> Slides and I shared the same pillow since my wife (of 25 years) left a
few
> years ago. Hard luck story my mom died last year too. I've said this
already
> on list. Everybody was sympathetic.
>
> So now its just the boys. Elmo the 100 pound German Shepard and me in
this
> photo studio household. Elmo seems a little wistful about Slides being
gone
> but does not mind being the unchallenged master of the household.
Slides had
> that title before.
> I'm the bottom of the totem pole for sure. The runt of the litter. But
as
> I'm set up to be less "pack like" then Elmo it doesn?t bother me so
much.
> Elmo is into total domination. He doesn?t play with other dogs.
> He wants to invade Poland.
> He wants people to throw his ball and has never bitten anybody.
> I've decided to not get another cat. I'm getting rid of the kitty
artifacts
> around the house/stuido but I'm not being obsessive about it. When I
see a
> toy of hers I don?t get all upset which is nice.
> Elmo is 10 and when he goes in 5 or 10 years I'll take a slow trip
around
> the world in a nuclear powered hydrofoil. And not have to worry about
a
> critter sitter. Just a Hasselblad sitter.
>
> In kitty heaven Ahai Tuna is served on demand cooked medium rare on
little
> snack plates.
> Although I think Sides would go for the beefsteak. She loved cow.
> Give her a can of Aberdeen-Angus of the sea any day.
> I fed her only beans, rice and brewers yeast her first years of her
life as
> we had vegetarian household. She was the smallest kitty on the block
I'm not
> sure if that's why. But she had enough attitude for a kitty three
times her
> size. She normally weighed 8 pounds.
> I'll have a slides memorial page going up I got the Nikon 5000
yesterday
> night to reward myself for having a dead cat and living to tell about
it. I
> buried her in my backyard in my pet cemetery. There was no 21 gun
salute but
> a few birdies flew overhead and dipped their wings it seemed like.
> She had to have been the most photographed cat in the north west usa.
>
> Toward the end after a tough day of not feeling so well during bedtime
she
> would push her forehead really hard into mine as we fell asleep on the
> pillow. I'll never forget that.
>
> But no anchovies for me please
> And
> No archive
>
> Mark Rabiner
>
>
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