TOOTSIE CAME INTO MY HUSBANDS LIFE TWO YEARS BEFORE I DID! KEN HAD GONE TO OUR LOCAL NO KILL SHELTER, CAT WELFARE LOOKING FOR A FUR CHILD TO LOVE. AS HE WENT FROM CAGE, TO CAGE, NOT ONE FUR MUFFIN WAS SPEAKING OUT TO HIM; UNTIL HE CAME TO TOOTSIE! AS KEN SPOKE TO HER, SHE SPOKE BACK AND IT WAS AT THAT MOMENT THAT HIS MIND WAS MADE UP!
TOOTSIE WAS HIS NEW BEST FRIEND! HE BROUGHT HER HOME AND AS HER PREVIOUS NAME WAS UNKNOWN, HE TRIED CALLING HER MANY THINGS WITHOUT ANY RESPONSE FROM HER. ONE DAY AS SHE WAS CLEANING BETWEEN HER TOES, HE LOOKED AT HER AND SAID”…YOU SURE LIKE CLEANING THOSE TOOTSIES DON’T YOU?”. SHE LOOKED UP AND THE REST IS HISTORY! TOOTSIE CAME INTO MY LIFE IN 1996. YOU KNOW THE OLD SAYING “LOVE ME,LOVE MY CAT?”, WELL I FELL FOR HER FROM THE FIRST GLANCE.
AT FIRST SHE SEEMED JEALOUS OF ME BUT AS TIME WENT ON, WE BECME FAST FRIENDS. SHE LOVED PLAYING WITH THE RINGS THAT COME OFF THE TOP OF THE MILK JUG CAP AND IT WAS NOTHING TO SEE TWENTY OF THEM UNDER THE COUCH, CHAIR OR IN THE BED! SHE HAD A FUNNY HABIT OF COMING TO THE DOOR WHEN WE WOULD COME HOME FROM WORK, DROPPING HER HEAD ON THE FLOOR AND ROLLING FOR US! HOW WE MISS HER FUNNY LITTLE FACE AND HER GREETINGS.
IN LATE AUGUST TOOTSIE BECAME ILL AND WE WERE TOLD SHE WAS IN THE LATE STAGES OF KIDNEY FAILURE. WHEN WE MADE THE DECISION TO LET HER GO IT WAS THE HARDEST DECISION WE HAD EVER HAD TO MAKE. SHE ALWAYS HATED GOING TO THE VET, BUT ON THIS HER LAST DAY WHEN WE TOOK HER IN TO SAY OUR GOODBYES, SHE WAS A VERY GOOD GIRL.
WE WERE SO PROUD OF HER AND KNOW THIS WAS HER WAY OF TELLING US IT’S OK MOM AND DAD, LET ME GO AHEAD TO THE BRIDGE AND I WILL WAIT FOR YOU. SHE IS RESTING UNDER A LILAC BUSH AND HAS A BEAUTIFUL STONE WITH MANY FLOWERS. WE HAVE A WROUGHT IRON CHAIR THERE WHERE WE CAN SIT AND MEDITATE AND TALK TO HER. WE MISS HER SO VERY MUCH BUT KNOW SHE IS AWAITING THE DAY WHEN WE WILL BE TOGETHER AGAIN. MOM AND DAD LOVE AND MISS YOU TOOTSIE GIRL AND TAZ AND KITTIE BOI SEND MEOWS. UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN….
ALL OUR LOVE BABY GIRL.-^..^-
REST IN PEACE,
MOMMY, DADDY, TAZ
AND KITTIE BOI
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