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Joachim our beloved cat was a throwaway. No one wanted him so I decided I would take him home. He took to my husband instantly. He was playful but a bit aloof at first. He was so tiny. He grew to be a beautiful cat and was always a bit of a loner. He began losing weight and after 2 different vets and lots of medication he got no better.

Numerous tests revealed nothing. The last test was for lymphomy and that is what it turned out to be. We had to make the difficult decision to put him to sleep because it was so far along. Fortunately or unfortunately he died before we had to go through with it.

I was there as he took his last breath. I just wanted him to know that I would never leave his side. Watching my beautiful cat die in my arms was the hardest thing I have ever had to deal with. We will miss him so deeply. There will always be an empty space in our hearts for our
little fighter-Joachim Piper.

Ron & Patricia

My darling Zoey

Last Christmas I had to do the hardest thing ever and that was to put you to sleep. You were my angel my baby girl the love of my life. For 15 and 1/2 years we were together. And now all I have are the most precious memories of our time together. Everything is so different because
you are not here.

I still turn around and expect you to be there. Your pictures remind me of all the wonderful times we spent together. My darling Zoey I will always love you.

A loved one is not gone
until they are forgotten
And to live in the hearts
of those left behind is to
live forever.

Maree

In loving memory of Rudy
who brought such joy
into Kathie’s life
for the six years
he was given to be
her beloved friend.

Kate

We will love you and
miss you forever.

mom

Simon always brought a smile to your face; he would sit in your lap when you where sad. He would even lick your tears away if you cried. He was a hunter and a kisser. I know the good lord is with him watching over him until one day we meet again.
He will never be forgotten.

He will always beloved.

Jennifer and Wendi

Taffy you were the best dog. From the time we brought you home at 9 weeks old until the day you left this earth you were just the best. For 15 years you brought happiness into our lives. I really can’t remember what it was like without you. We all miss you so much. It’s only been a couple of days and right now it hurts so much.

I still think I hear you moving around in the middle of the night or when I get up in the morning I want to call your name so I can take you out. I feel so guilty but I know it was the best thing you had no kind of life anymore. I know your in a better place maybe even with grandpa who you loved so much.

We love you little Roo.

Your Family

It has been a year and still my heart aches. It seems like just yesterday you were here. My life is forever changed. I miss you with every breath I take. I think of the good times that we shared and all the things that you taught me. Most of all how to love. And I know that our time together would have never been long enough on this earth. I can only thank God for blessing me with your spirit and allowing me to have the time we did have. Rowdy I love you with all my heart and soul. You are forever a part of my life never to be forgotten.

I wait for the time we are reunited in spirit. Please know that not a day goes by that I don’t think of you and wish you were here with me.

Love and Kisses

Your Mom
{Terra}

My beloved Yanni was a gift from God. He was kind gentle loving. I had the pleasure of caring for him for 5 years. 5 years of pure love and companionship that I will never forget. I cherish the memories in my mind and heart forever. I think of Yanni every single day. His photo and ashes sit in my armoire where I know he safe here with me and his brother Jazzy. I believe that his soul is with Jesus and that he is at the rainbow bridge running and eating and playing,..

It breaks my heart into millions of pieces to think of him not being here with me but I know that I will see my beloved again one day.. Kitty …

I love you so much…

Mommy

I hope you forgive me POESCH …(Datjes’ nickname is POESCH) I’m so sorry I forgot you but I want you to know that you will always be in my heart forever and ever …

You shared every feeling of me. I trusted you and you trusted me … I still don’t understand why I couldn’t say goodbye to you? But do know this: Nobody can replace you; nobody has feel the pain that I carry on every day for the fact that I lost you and Kitty … I love Kitty as much as i love you but in a different way …

Help each other there in heaven
because you (Datjes and Kitty) and
Rakker will always be
my beloved kittens!!!

I love you with all my heart.

{P.S. wish me luck
for my points tomorrow}

Silke

Pretty Girl.

I remember the way you licked my hands. I remember the way you never feared a stranger. I remember the look in your big amber eyes when we found you. The fear and sadness almost made me cry. I remember the warmth in them after we fed you. Pretty Girl I remember the fear I felt when I saw the hole under the gate and the look in your beautiful eyes eyes which had lost the light of life.

I’ll miss you forever
my gentle pretty deer.

Ayja

There hasn’t been a better buddy in our lives than our Buddy.There hasn’t been a day that he was always by our side.Buddy never got tired to greet us when we came home from school or work.

Time was running down for Buddy and finally the almighty said to us humans be kind and return Buddy to me. So we said our good-byes to Buddy. We held him petted him and as Buddy slept peacefully in our arms forever we gave him a kiss and said “now go and find other pets that want you to come and play with them”.

Yes Buddy is at peace and not in pain anymore. He’s able to get up and walk and see the world. I know that he’ll watch over us and some day
we will be with him.

Debra Nels and Aaron

Pauline was with us for 14 of our 15 years of marriage and we have no children. She was our child our sister third member of our family. We really know no other life without her and it will take us a long time to respond to the emptiness around us.

Miss & Jamie

To my lady girl
You are tried and
loyal friend;

the end of life will find you leal unweary of tested bonds that naught can rend and even though years will be sad and lonely even dreary OUR plighted friendship will extend.a truer friend a girl will ever have had; this is sad that mongst all earthy friends the fewest unfaithful ones should be clad in canie lowliness yet the truest they be their treatment good or bad. With in your eyes me thinks I find a kind and thoughtful look of speechless feeling as I miss you so much my lady girl we shall meet again when the time comes …….

Love you always

Jennifer

I’ll always love Sox.
You were my first pet.
You were kind and gentle.
I’ll see you in Heaven
one day soon wait for me.
I love you.

Sabrina

Dearest girl

I’ve been thinking and re-thinking about what should be written in your permanent tribute. There are so many ways to describe you but only someone who met you really understood the impact you could have.

So how to describe you to others? Well of course you were special like all the other babies immortalized here. But more than that … of all the cats I’ve had since I was young (a long time ago) you were the most special to me. Why? Were you the prettiest? Well no not really.

The smartest? Not quite although you were clever enough to have me figured out pretty quick. The cutest? Hmm probably not. Were you obedient? Rarely. The most affectionate? I think that may be a toss-up. You were extremely affectionate in your own way you little head-butter. Stubborn? Oh most definitely. Proud? Absolutely. You never thought of yourself as a cat; you were definitely a People.

When I first saw you at the Denver Cat Care Center you were so tiny but not a fragile type. You jumped into my arms when the cage door was opened (you were in quarantine because you were so little) and I had the hardest time getting you back in – when I let go of you you jumped back into my arms. So all right you got me.

A week later when I brought you home little did I know exactly how much this little furry whirl-wind was going to change my life. I had five other kitties and a dog so I tried to keep you in the bedroom until you got a bit bigger. You put up with that for only a few days and finally ran out one day when I opened the door. You headed straight for the one cat I thought might give you trouble and gave him a running tackle. You kept this up for a few days until he finally surrendered. The other cats were push-overs and you the youngest had complete control. And you were everything about a cat I had always wanted; I vowed never to have another kitten as long as you lived. And I never did. As for the dog he was your playmate from the beginning.

As you grew older you let it be known that EVERYTHING in the house was yours from the minute it came in. You would have to sit in it on it or curl around it before anyone could use it. As a chest of drawers was brought it one day you jumped on top as it was coming through the door and rode it the rest of the way in. One day you spotted a new music box on some corner shelves and squeezed and muttered until you got your little tooshie on it then jumped down and never went near it again.

You were always my special one and you knew it. I could never get mad at you – not that you ever really did anything bad anyway. But you would flirt with danger just to see what I would do. However you could get mad at me and you would punish me until I got the idea. If I didn’t get up early enough in the morning to feed you you refused to eat. I guess you figured I would be sorry if you starved. Well yes of course I would but you were a little butterball anyway! If I really did something you disapproved of you would get just out of arm’s reach and turn your back on me. THAT would teach me huh! I would plead and apologize and say I’d never do it again (whatever IT might have been) and you’d turn around and jump into my arms. Of course I knew you had been purring the whole time – but you taught me a lesson didn’t you?

You couldn’t stand it if you didn’t know what was going on. Since you thought you were in control anyway something out of your domain clearly upset you (angered is too strong a word – maybe irritated is better) like the 1994 earthquake. You were the first cat to come out of hiding and gave me such a look! I never could make you understand it wasn’t my doing – you “punished” me a lot that day!

If you were in a stubborn mood and didn’t want to come to me when I wanted you all I had to do was hide my face – behind a pillow a door whatever – and call you. This made you crazy and you always came because you had to see what in the world I was doing. Worked every time.

When you were 12 I got sick and had to give you to a friend of mine – one you didn’t know – to care for. I thought it would only be a month or two. I would visit you every weekend – except the first few weeks when your “step-mom” thought it best for you to settle in. You almost didn’t survive – you lost half your body weight you kept getting sick (when you had never been sick before) you got acne on your chin your asthma kicked in; oh my dear one how I cried for you! How I wish I could have explained that it wasn’t going to be forever! But it almost was
wasn’t it.

A month or two turned into a couple years and I visited you just about every weekend. Your “step-mom” said you did better when I came to see you and I always tried to get there. You grew to love and trust her too which made me happy. And she thought you were kinda special too. But when I came you ran up into my arms purred and purred and butted my head until I was sure you’d hurt yourself. When I had to leave you gave me a look that always broke my heart. And I cried for you and worked hard to get a home to bring you back into.

After almost a couple of years your “step-mom” was able to let me stay at her place until I could find my own. You came to me and I’d never seen you so happy! When I would lay in bed at night you’d lie on my arm with your front paws over my shoulder just watching me. I would try not to respond as long as I could but eventually I would start laughing and you’d come alive – purring and butting my head. Oh my little punkin-face how I treasured those moments!

But at 14 years of age you weren’t acting like you felt like your old self. Happy yes. Comfortable not really. So we took you many times to the vet for blood tests thinking maybe we were paranoid. Finally after you had started losing quite a bit of weight and developed a large tummy the vet found the problem. It was cancer and I didn’t have much longer with you. As much as it tore me up I’m glad you couldn’t realize that your dream had come true but for such a short time. A week later I had to hold you in the vet’s office while she gave you something to deeply relax you and finally gave the final shot. Your other mommy was there too and we both told you how much we loved you and would miss you. Then we took your dear body home and buried you under a beautiful tree. Your other mommy put down a large “Whitney stone” and I put a kitty statue on top of it. I can see you trying to sit on it – you’d probably slide down but it wouldn’t stop you!

I don’t know if kitties have dreams – but I did and losing you shattered it. I loved my other kitties very much and cried when I lost them but you became my whole world – and you knew it didn’t you? I listen to this song sometimes by John Denver and a certain verse makes me think of you. I thought it reflected how I felt toward you and maybe it does of course. But today I thought maybe it was how you felt toward me. So in closing this chapter on a life I was loathe to lose I’ll recite it.

Rest in peace dear girl.

From “For You” by John Denver:

Just to wake up each morning
just to you by my side
Just to know that
you’re never really far away;
Just a reason for living
just to say I adore
Just to know you’re here
in my heart to stay.

For you all the rest of my life
For you all the best of my life
For you alone only for you.

Your mama

Seward’s Spunky Spirit – what a fitting name for you were the spirit of love loyalty understanding and patience. The end of the day would bring us home to your wagging tail unconditional love and all would be
“right with the world”.

We shall miss you
but always hold you
in a special place in our hearts
until we meet again.

MB & Darlene

Dearest Nora

I remember the first time I saw you with your inky black coat and golden brown patches. You were angelic. I reached out with my chubby six year old hands and we touched for the first time. Then when we arrived home daddy caught us playing in the grass you were nipping at the bow in my hair as we lay sprawled out in the lush grass of the front lawn. He snapped a picture and walked away leaving us to frolic on our own. A month passed and you began to act badly. You would nip and tug and chew you would bite me and my parents.

Oh Nora you have no idea how much I wanted you to stop. There was an awful feeling in my heart and I really wanted you to behave but my parents decided that they would have to give you away. I cried until my heart was empty. My Dad cut out the picture he had taken of us the first day you were mine. He put it in a locket and I still wear it a lot. When we brought you to the new family you were very happy. There was another little girl there who loved you and I could tell you loved her as well. As I bent down to kiss you goodbye but you were already gone.

Nora its been five years since I last saw you and you are up in heaven now but I want you to say that I love you and that even though I only got to spend a little time with you
you are my angel.

Love

Louisa

I miss you so much Mitten.
know you are your companion Sox
are playing in Heaven.
I’ll be there one day soon.
I’ll never forget you.
I love you.

Sabrina

We lost our mate very soon after Boris our Siamese cat (Feb 2002) so it has been very difficult for the past few weeks. It has taken this long for me to be able to come here and write this. My little mate loved me so much he was like a shadow. I know he knew I loved him. That doesn’t help when you take him to his death because he was in so much pain.

I am so sorry.

Kevin

He was my best friend
what else is there to say.

Dave