Of
" Stripe" ----- "Cheeze " ----- " Luckie "
4/14/90--7/4/97 ....................... 4/15/90-- 9/1/98 ............................ 9/1999
Kitties
This is my beloved Stripe.
This was the first kitty loss I ever had.
She was born April 14 1990 and I lost my
sweet girl July 4 1997 she was only 7.
This hurts so bad and I miss her very much.
She is the reason I wrote the poem "4 feet in heaven".
" FOUR FEET IN HEAVEN "
Your favorite chair is empty now.
No eager purrs to greet me.
No softly padded paws to run,
Ecstatically to meet me.
No coaxing rubs No plaintive cry
Will say it's time for feeding~
I've put away your bowl,
And all the thing's you won't be needing.
But I will miss you Little friend,
For I could never measure,
The happiness you brought to me,
The comfort and the pleasure.
And since God put you here to share
In earthy joy and sorrow,
I'm sure there'll be a place for you,
In heavens bright tomorroow!!
I will never recover from this loss and as far as the Fourth of July goes -
count me out for this day. I mourn the loss of my beautiful stripe girl who
was taken from me so young. Stripe was a really neat cat
she kind of played MOM cat to all the others.
She never had an aggression toward any of the others.
When her sister Cheeze gave birth to Blondie and Beaneau
Cheeze stopped nursing the kittens. Stripe girl kitty actually produced
milk (and being fixed this was strange) and continued to nurse the
kittens for 3 more weeks. She was the best girl kitty in the world.
When she was relaxing she would like to lean her back against
things and sit like a person.
She looked like she was saying "...gimme a beer and a smoke..."
Stripe passed on from renal (kidney) failure which takes
so many of our kittys. We need to research this further to see
why this dreaded kitty disease effects so many of our little furry kittys.
This is Cheeze the next kitty I lost and her story
This is my Cheeze Kitty. Cheeze was born on April 15 1990.
She loved to be petted and always wanted to be held.
She was diagnosed with Renal Failure on August 31 1998.
I had to put her to sleep on Sept 1 1998.
I miss her terribly. She was very young and such a good kitty.
She will always be remembered. She was cremated and placed in a
little urn that holds her picture so that she will be with me always.
Next and this is the saddest this is Luckie..and his story
This is Luckie. And yes he is very lucky in deed.
In this picture he is about 2 1/2 years old or so says the vet.
And this is his story...
One day at the end of April 1999 I was driving down Inkster Road,
(A local road here) and I see a cat in the road that has obviously been hit.
I passed him by and thought to my self hmmm maybe I should go back
and at least move him out of the road. So I turned around
pulled up on him and gasped "Oh my God he is still breathing!"
I was almost in tears. How could someone hit this cat and not even stop?
I ran into the road scooped him up in my arms and drove as fast
as I could to the nearest vet. Luckily there was one a mile away.
I didn't know this vet but it was close and I didn't think this little guy
had much time left. So with this bloody cat in arms I ran into
this vets office. They were getting ready to close but I was very
happy that they rushed me into the E.R.
He was in shock and his temperature was 106 and he was
needing to be treated for shock too. They gave him a bunch of
morphine to calm him down and started an I.V.
They packed him in cold wet towels to bring his temperature
down and to start to get him more stable.
They then began to assess him and his condition.
He had a mass in his abdomen. His breathing was very
shallow and getting weaker an X-ray revealed a collapsed lung.
Oh My God Poor Boy! They then inserted a needle into his
chest cavity to aspirate the air that had started to collect in his lungs.
Okay - now he is a little more stable and I am finally starting to
calm down. He needed to remain in their care for a few more days
until he is stable enough to be moved to my own vet's.
The next morning an x-ray reveals a fractured pelvis.
It's a stable fracture and it's also the kind that must just heal itself
you can't set this type of fracture. On the third day he is stable
enough to be moved to my own vet. I go down to the vet
cat carrier in hand and pay the $650.00 bill and collect my "Luckie"
cat who still has the I.V in his front leg.
We then head out for the 1/2 hour drive to my vets.
Whew we make it to my vets and they assess him again
and reconnect his I.V. They start him on a pain patch so he will be
comfortable. Later that night the vet calls me about 11 PM and
says that we have to put in a chest tube cause we are still getting
way too much air out of his lungs also they suggested that we
should neuter him while we have him out for the chest tube...YES!!!
Like is there another answer.
The chest tube enabled them access to his chest cavity easier
and made it more sufficient to aspirate the air with less
stress on the kitty.
Two more days pass and he is coming right along.
Then I get another vet phone call (REMEMBER THE MASS? )
They said that if we don't remove it he will die and if we do there
is still a chance he could die. At this point I am in tears.
How could God put me here to save this kitty if he is just going to
die on me any way? That is all I could think of...thankfully
the surgery was a success!!!!
YEAH! He made it with flying colors THANK GOD!!!
A few more days longer at the vets and he came home.
I paid the $1,300.00 vet bill and brought home my VERY Luckie cat.
He had been doing great and living a happy kitty life until
September 23 1999. When I found Luckie all his tests were negative.
On the 23rd his temperature shot up to 105.7. I took him to the vet
and he remained in the hospital for 3 days.
On the morning of the 25th the vet called very puzzled as to why
his temperature kept going up. He ran another leukemia test and it
was positive.
The short time I had Luckie he was well taken care
of and very loved. He will be missed very much even though the
time with him was short I loved him dearly.
Luckie's funeral was on Wednesday September 29 1999
at the AAA Pet cemetery.
Pamela
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