I CAN STILL REMEMBER THE DAY WE BROUGHT YOU HOME YOU WERE A TINY LITTLE KITTEN, ALL WHITE WITH GREY SPOTS. AS YOU GREW OLDER YOU GREW WILDER TOO, CHASING ALL OF THOSE FEMALES AND FIGHTING WITH THE MALES. AND WHEN YOU WERE ABOUT A YEAR OLD WE HAD TO GET RID OF YOUR STUFF…BUT THAT WAS A GOOD THING BECAUSE THEN YOU CALMED DOWN AND STAYED HOME. YOU EVENTUALLY GREW INTO A BIG MANLY CAT, HOW FUNNY OUR BIG DOG SPUD WAS TERRIFIED OF YOU.
I CAN STILL REMEMBER THAT DAY WHEN SPUD WAS SCARING THAT LITTLE KITTEN AND YOU JUMPED DOWN FROM ON TOP OF THE FENCE,LIKE IN A MOVIE, AND ATTACKED SPUD FROM BEHIND. HE WOULD HAVE CLIMBED UP THAT TREE IF YOU WOULD HAVE LET HIM. POOR SPUD, EVEN THOUGH HE WAS A BIG HUGE DOG HE NEVER KNEW THE DIFFERENCE BECAUSE YOU WERE THE MAN OF THE HOUSE. AND THAT’S HOW YOU STAYED TILL THE DAY YOU DIED. OUR BIG MANLY CAT, YOU NEVER RAN FROM A DOG, BUT STAYED STRONG AND ALWAYS FOUGHT, YOU NEVER MOVED FROM THE COUCH OR THE BED WHEN WE WANTED TO SIT, AND IF YOU DID, AS SOON AS WE SAT DOWN YOU WOULD BE RIGHT IN OUR LAP.
WE HAD YOU FOR ALMOST THIRTEEN YEARS, AND YOU WERE STILL GOING STRONG, BUT YOU NEVER RAN FROM THOSE DOGS EVEN WHEN YOU KNEW THAT YOU SHOULD’VE. SO WE LOST YOU TOO EARLY, I KNOW IN MY HEART YOU WOULD’VE LIVED MANY MORE YEARS IF YOU HADN’T BEEN SO STUBBORN. BUT THAT WAS WHO YOU WERE STRONG, SILENT, AND VERY STUBBORN. WE’VE NEVER HAD A CAT LIKE YOU AND I KNOW THAT WE NEVER WILL, AND WE WILL ESPECIALLY NEVER FEEL THE SAME ABOUT ANOTHER CAT AS WE HAVE FELT FOR YOU. YOU WILL ALWAYS BE THE MAN OF OUR HOUSE, AND I’M SURE YOU ARE NOW, UP WHEREVER YOU ARE.
WITH LOVE FROM US ALL,
| SAM |
| DANICA SHRYOCK |