We too lost a cat this week

[hatredisnotavalue]

Warning: very long winded:
History. Twelve years ago, I was driving my kids, five and six, to school when I saw two piles of dark gray frozen slush in the middle of our back country road. Slowing down, I saw it was two baby kittens someone had thrown into the road. I stopped the car and scooped up one, but the other one had actually frozen to the road and had to be tenderly teased off of it.
I brought the kids to school and brought the two kittens back home to administer care. Both became vibrant within the hour. The next day, the same thing happened, two spots of slush in the road, only this time, only one was alive.
It was the week before Christmas and what a Christmas we had. Those three kittens were all over the tree, the kids couldn't have had a better present. In fact no one paid much attention to presents that year, the cats were enough. Everyone was just marveling at those kittens. Two were adopted to VERY good homes. We kept Nola, the littlest one frozen to the road that day.
Nola only ate Little Friskies and drank water. IN the worst winter storm, she would only go outside to do her business. She would not play with toys. But she would bring home three dead mice a day. She had a tin of tuna at Christmas, but that she would pick at.
She was the matriarch of the house at her 6 pounds, all of the other cats, including the 20 lb. lynx/mix knew she was boss. She was the supreme being in the house, over ruling all four cats and the dog.
Well, we haven't seen her since Wednesday. Which is very odd. I went to look for her today, but nothing. She was so onary, she probably dug her own grave. I know she has passed, there is no way she wouldn't have been here by today. Anyway, please give it up for just a great cat...Nola...

[mainegreen]

1. :big hug:

[hatredisnotavalue]

2. Thanks

It's funny she was so much not a part of the family, that when she went missing...there is truly a huge void.

[El Fuego]

3. I'm sorry

:hug:

[Terran]

4. maybe she'll still show up...

Ya never know. I had a ten week old kitten go missing from my house in San Francisco, and she was gone overnight. I thought for sure she was gone forever, but she came back the next day.

[hatredisnotavalue]

5. Thanks for the positive thoughts

But Nola ran our household. Every morning for the past ten years at least, she met me at the bathroom door first thing in the morning, let me know who needed water, who needed food, including the dog, she waited while I made my coffee and then I had to escort her to the garage (while I took out the trash) to oversee her domain. She would show me the mice she killed, etc. This was ten years every day where she and I had coffee together. There is no way she ran away. This was our time togehter every day and it was like clock work.

[Sanity Claws]

7. I'm sorry to hear of your loss

She was a special cat. That was quite a bond the two of you formed.

[latebloomer]

6. Was she sick?

Sometimes they do go off somewhere to die privately.

I'm so sorry. She sounds very special.

:hug:

[hatredisnotavalue]

8. Thnaks,....yes she would go of f to die privately...she was that kind of

cat

[abbeyco]

9. I am so sorry for your loss

It's so very hard to lose a pet.

However, she may be stronger than you think and she just might show up. My kitty Abbey (I lost her this past June) got out and was gone for 5 days and nights and reappeared, a little worse for the wear, but made it back home. She'd been an indoor cat only and really had no coping skills out in the big world. A lost tooth, a chewed ear and some scratches when she returned. I was going to donate her things the next day to our Dumb Friends League, but she came back to me. I hope the same happens for you!

If not, cherish the memories and love you had - she holds a very special place in your hearts. :hug:

[SoCalDem]

10. I hope she still turns up.. We once accidentally locked a stray cat

in our garage.. My husband has a bad habit of leaving the door open all day while he putzes around, and then just piles the stiff in and shuts the door..

I went to do laundry in the room next to the garage,and kept hearing meowing.. I thought that one of ours had sneaked in there.. I opened the door and saw a cat I had never seen before.. He?She? had been locked in there for at least a day.. Just went around and opened the door, and pretty soon the cat ran out..

Maybe in your neighborhood, your own kitty got curious, and will still find her way home :hug: