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Accounting for a Cat (1)
Jul. 29th, 2015 02:32 pmWe adopted Little on June 6th 1996 (I just checked the paperwork). She was a year old, but had been at the Blue Cross for six months (we were told: they were trying very hard to "sell" Big, but especially Little, to us). So she could have been not much more than one up to nearly two and a half. She was at the very least 20 when she died.
A pretty good innings.
A pretty good innings.
My parents bought this cat basket a very long time ago (at least thirty years):
It was a step up in the world for the cat (possibly not Moggy, but definitely Kitty) as before that we'd used any old cardboard box for feline transportation (or none at all, until Moggy decided that the best place to travel in the car was under the brake pedal).
It served as Kitty's bed, too, and was where Mieze was born, but not the rest of the kittens. Felix, the last of those kittens, also slept in it.
When my Dad brought Astrophe over from Wales just after we moved in here, she came in this basket. She didn't take to sleeping in it, but it's carried on performing its cat-carrying duties, to and from the vee ee tee ever since. Big generally got to go in it, 'cos our other carrier was smaller.
Today we settled Little in it for her last two journeys.
Empty:
It was a step up in the world for the cat (possibly not Moggy, but definitely Kitty) as before that we'd used any old cardboard box for feline transportation (or none at all, until Moggy decided that the best place to travel in the car was under the brake pedal).
It served as Kitty's bed, too, and was where Mieze was born, but not the rest of the kittens. Felix, the last of those kittens, also slept in it.
When my Dad brought Astrophe over from Wales just after we moved in here, she came in this basket. She didn't take to sleeping in it, but it's carried on performing its cat-carrying duties, to and from the vee ee tee ever since. Big generally got to go in it, 'cos our other carrier was smaller.
Today we settled Little in it for her last two journeys.
Empty:
Fortuitously, we got the time to program your cats reminders from the v.e.t. on Friday. So we're taking them both today and can ask about Little's health.
M reminded me she had her blood tested last visit prior to tooth clean. There was nothing out of the ordinary then. The general snoozyness is fairly recent. So we'll see what's said today.
But a big thank you for all the advice, which rather confirmed my feelings that we ought to investigate.
M reminded me she had her blood tested last visit prior to tooth clean. There was nothing out of the ordinary then. The general snoozyness is fairly recent. So we'll see what's said today.
But a big thank you for all the advice, which rather confirmed my feelings that we ought to investigate.
