Well the hits keep on coming. I am convinced that I’m just numb right now. Then again, anytime someone asks me about how I’m doing I just break down. But in the mean time, I feel just numb. I’ve had to take 3 of my 4 cats to the vet since Saturday to be put to sleep. Finally Snowy started showing signs of the FeLV disease and then it advanced quickly to the point where I had to take her in yesterday afternoon to end her suffering.
Candi and I picked up Snowy from the local grocery store parking lot in early 2000 as a kitten and took her home. She had one blue and one green eye and she just won over our hearts instantly -even though we already had 3 cats! I was stupid enough to let her outside enough before getting her fixed that she got pregnant with her first of 3 litters but we never got around to getting her fixed -we were always either broke or busy dealing with her kittens! She had a total now of 12 babies and she was a good mother to them while they were in her care. My mom has 2 of them and my sister-in-law has 1.
Snowy was in our family long before I had a digital camera so most of her early pics were not digital -nor did I take that many. I will be digging them up soon. Here she was on a day she was pretty playful
Here she is in our front tree next to one of her sons, “Romeo”, from her second litter.
And here is how I remember her the best. She would spend hours sitting on top of my warm monitors while I worked. In the morning when I would have a bowl of cereal and sit at my computer, she’d sit up there and patiently wait for me to finnish my cereal so she’d get a shot at the remaining milk. She even knew the sound of me eating cereal so well that she’d come running in eagerly hoping to get some sweet milk in the process.
Snowy was the cat that started drinking out of the sink -and quickly got all the other cats in the house to do the same. It got the point where anyone going to the bathroom would have to also turn on the sink so they could have a drink while you were there!
good bye Snowy. You were an amazing mother and a joy to share time with. We miss you already…