Jade by Terri & Jimmy / Mommy & Daddy

TO MY LITTLE RASCAL.
YOU WERE ALWAYS FULL OF ENERGY & LAUGHS. I GOT YOU WHEN YOU WERE ONE YEAR OLD. YOU HAVE BEEN THROUGH 2 HOUSES & 3 DOGS. YOU WERE SO CLOSE TO EACH DOG EVEN THOUGH YOU PRETENDED NOT TO BE. I WOULD FIND YOU CURLED UP WITH EVERY ONE OF THEM. LESHIE ON THE BED. COLBY IN THE DOG HOUSE. SAMPSON ON THE COUCH.

I WILL NEVER FORGET THE LAUGHS YOU BROUGHT TO OUR HOME. YOU LOVED TO CHASE CIGARETTE PACKAGES & SWAT THEM UNDER THE COUCH, THEN WAIT IN ANTICIPATION AS WE GOT THE BROOM HANDLE TO FISH THEM ALL BACK OUT. THE MANY, MANY CRITTERS YOU BROUGHT BACK TO THE YARD & LAYED THEM AT MY FEET SO I COULD SEE WHAT YOU CAUGHT FOR THE DAY.

YOU LOVED HIDING OUT IN MY FLOWERS & BUSHES. YOU WERE THE CURIOUS GEORGE I NEVER HAD. YOU NEVER LIKED TO CUDDLE MUCH WITH US, BUT I LOVED YOU JUST THE SAME. YOU NEVER WANTED TO BE IN THE HOUSE ALTHOUGH WHEN I FIRST GOT YOU, YOU WERE STRICTLY A HOUSE CAT. AFTER YOU VENTURED OUTSIDE, YOU NEVER WANTED TO BE IN AGAIN. YOU CAME HOME WITH A FEW SCRAPES, BUT ALWAYS SEEMED TO HOLD YOUR OWN AGAINST ANY DANGER. I ALWAYS PROTECTED YOU THE BEST I KNEW HOW. I WAS NEVER REALLY WORRIED ABOUT YOU. I KNEW YOU WERE GOING TO BE OKAY. THERE WERE TIMES THAT YOU WOULD BE GONE FOR DAYS ON END. I WOULD WORRY UNTIL YOU CAME HOME. IT MAY HAVE BEEN SEVERAL DAYS, BUT YOU ALWAYS CAME HOME. YOU WOULD TAKE WALKS WITH ME TO THE POND & I WOULD HAVE TO CARRY YOU BACK BECAUSE YOU WORE YOURSELF OUT. I DIDN’T MIND. I ENJOYED THE COMPANY.

I ALWAYS DREADED THE DAY THAT I WOULD COME HOME & FIND YOU DEAD IN THE STREET BECAUSE YOU WERE ALWAYS CROSSING THE STREET INTO THE NEIGHBORS YARDS. I NEVER DREAMED THAT YOU WOULD SUFFER THE HORRIBLE DEATH THAT YOU DID. I CAME HOME WAITING TO SEE YOU FLOPPING BACK & FORTH ON THE SIDEWALK AS YOU ALWAYS DID, WAITING TO BE RUBBED ON THE BELLY. YOU WERE A MASS OF MANGLED FUR. I THOUGHT I COULD SAVE YOU, BUT WHAT I DIDN’T KNOW WAS WHAT YOUR INSIDES LOOKED LIKE. WHILE I WAS AWAY, A STRAY DOG ATTACKED YOU IN MY FLOWER BED, WHERE YOU LOVED TO LAY. YOU WERE UNAWARE OF THE STRUGGLE YOU WOULD HAVE AHEAD. IT SEEMED AS THOUGH YOU WAITED FOR ME TO GET HOME TO SAY OUR GOODBYES. I KNOW THAT YOU MUST HAVE LAYED THERE A LONG WHILE SUFFERING. I WENT TO PICK YOU UP TO TAKE YOU TO THE VET & YOU LET OUT A CRY OF PAIN. I WAS ON THE WAY TO THE VET WHEN YOU PASSED. I WAS TOO LATE. I WANTED TO SAVE YOU ANYMORE SUFFERING, BUT DIDN’T MAKE IT. I HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO BRING YOU BACK HOME & BURY YOU IN THE FIELD YOU SO MUCH LOVED TO ROMP IN.

I ONLY HOPE THAT YOU ARE IN A MUCH BETTER PLACE NOW. I HOPE YOU ARE WITH OTHERS TO CUDDLE WITH & YOU HAVE ALL THE CRITTERS YOU CAN KEEP UP WITH TO CHASE. I WASN’T ALWAYS HAPPY ABOUT SOME OF THE THINGS YOUR BROUGHT HOME, BUT I WOULDN’T HAVE TRADED YOU IN FOR IT. I HOPE WE WERE ABLE TO GIVE YOU THE HAPPINESS, LOVE & LAUGHS THAT YOU BROUGHT TO US. YOU NEVER DESERVED TO SUFFER THE WAY YOU DID & I PRAY THAT YOU WILL FORGIVE US FOR WAITING TO LONG.

MAY ALL YOUR FIELDS BE FULL OF THE CREEPY CRAWLYS, WINGED & FURRY FRIENDS THAT KEPT YOU YOUNG AT HEART. REST IN PEACE MY LITTLE CRAZY KITTY. ALL OF OUR PRAYERS ARE WITH YOU & WE LOVE YOU!!!

 

All Of Our Love
Jade
3, June 2005
Terri & Jimmy