Katie

[sleigh]

Throwback Thursday... Here's a shot of me holding Katie, back at our Nansen St. house, probably taken in the early 1990s. Katie found us as a kitten/young cat, showing up on the porch of our house [edited to correct] around Thanksgiving on a cold night, and looking miserable. At the time, we already had a cat (Ali, a Himalayan/Siamese mix) and weren't looking for another, but Katie looked so pitiful that we put out food for her -- yeah, we should have known then... She kept coming back every day, and, well, eventually we brought her in. She was a strange-looking cat: a big fluffball with white fur but a black tail, and a few black spots on her face.

We had her as a companion for a long, long time, but she eventually suffered kidney failure in 2007 as a very old cat, and as she got sicker and thinner, we knew it was time. She did as well. We got to the vet's office, and the vet went back to prepare the shot. I was holding Katie on my lap with Denise next to me, and we were both petting her when she gave a small cry, then stopped moving. The vet came back in, and we told him she'd already passed, all on her own...

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[parsleigh.livejournal.com]

She was a great cat. She actually came to us around Thanksgiving, on a really cold night.

[sleigh.livejournal.com]

I defer to your superior memory!