Troubles was brought into my life by my dad trying to save his life, his owner could not keep him any longer and was going to have him put down. I told my dad I would help him find a home for him. I left him at my mom’s for a week while I looked for a home for him. Sassy was a cat living there already and she was so mean to him. He would hide in the attic and go down stairs to get months full of food to take up stairs with him. Walking close to the walls so that you wouldn’t get bit up by a cat half your size. I felt sorry for him and talk to my first hubby about it. Bryan brought you home and all I could say was “He is only staying until I find him a home.” I did like Troubles but I had Dixie and did want a another cat. Well that was in ’98. I guess you found your home yourself right here beside me.
We went through heck together; my first hubby was mean and you soon saw that. He would hit me and one day when I was running away from him I heard him yell out. When I looked back I saw you running in front of him and around his legs stopping him so I could get away. I thought “no way.” Many times you did this and we soon found ways to get a way together. Even when it meant me going first and going to a side window where you would run and wait for me to get you and Dixie. You both gave me the courage to get away so I took both of you and away we went. We moved in with Neil and we were happy for the first time; we didn’t have to worry about being hit. I soon felt it was time for us to be on out on our own. We moved out. After I a while I met Mike you and Dixie being the cute little things you were, loving me, teamed up. You would lay by his face waiting for him to wake up. As soon as he did you would look at Dixie and meow. Not having claws you were the one to let her know about him being awake so she could claw him with all her many claws. (Dixie was a mitten paw cat, double the claws) And she would claw his feet. And you would purr so loud and proud. Dixie soon went to live with Neil where I felt she would be more happy as an out door cat. We stayed together meant to be together forever.
We moved a few times each time we made it together. I married Mike and you learn to get along with him. You would lay on my tummy and sleep at night and when you could no long lay there because I had baby growing in there. You understood never getting mad taking a place by my side in the bed. The day I brought her home you hide under the Christmas tree walking once again along the wall when you needed something. But before long you were loving her as much as me. When she was sick you laid by her bed never leaving her side it seemed. Before long we had her riding you like a horse and you would let her. Time moved on and the love grew between you and Ivory.
One day I heard Ivy laughing. I went to see what she was doing, being a year and a half old, when I found her I saw the white paint on her hands. When I asked her what did you do she simply said “I painted Bubba!” When I looked down and saw you white. He just looked at me and meowed. You where such a great sport. Even after that you would let Ivy do as she wanted to you.
Troubles, you where so great everyone loved you. Even the pizza place across the street did. Hey how many place would give a cat pizza?
When we moved into a home that would be ours forever you took to it like a king. Finding people to feed him here, too. One day I was outside talking to a some one when they informed me that some one had just dropped that poor cat off and they had been feeding him. I just shook my head and said “Yea you would think that the way my cat begs for food.” Soon I found more then one person was feeding him. I keep food down all the time for him.
He had 2 and a half good years here. I knew his time was coming near but nothing prepared me for the call to tell me that David my roommate found him in the side yard. He said you looked like you had went to sleep that was how you went. I loved him so much. I have lost some one very close to me. Troubles was more then a pet, he was my best friend, my lazy fat boy, my big baby and my old man.
I love you and I know when you left
this world you had an angel with you.
We will always love you and keep you in our hearts,
| Troubles "Bubba" Gray |
| Julie and Ivory |