This is my first post , and I thought I'd mark my appearance by marking the first anniversary of our little Poppet crossing the bridge.
He had acute Kidney Failure , and despite all efforts , there really wasn't anything to be done for him,
He was the last of our 6 cats that we shared our hose with for a total of 23 years...
We moved into our house in 1991 , and as part of the deal, we took on 4 adult cats that had belonged to the previous owners, the cats had lived in the house all their lives and we couldn't turn them out, despite never having owned a pet in the past!
We had them for 11 years and they thrived, we lost one of the original 4 in the second year , thanks to a car accident , but a stray wandered in a few months later , and simply stayed, the other 3 tolerated him.. sort of! and that was it for over a decade
In 2002 into 2003 we lost 3 of the 4 of hem to Kidney disease and Cancer , leaving just one of them ,Blackie, who was soon joined by another stray, Poppet who showed up in the Summer of 2003, liked the look of the place and stayed
Blackie and Poppet put up with each other until she passed in 2007 to Cancer again,
We didn't have an ager for her , but we'd looked after her for 16 years , so we guessed her age at around 18 or so
Poppet was fully gown when he arrived, and for 11 years he thrived under our care , and enjoyed the feline high life , until he had to leave us .. Sniff
After a cat free 3 months we took on 2 Cat Protection re homes in November , Parker and Otis, they're young (3 & 4) big, (parker is 14 lbs of pure muscle and walks on a lead!!) Otis is a jet black mini Panther , and they complete our lives again
I hope some day to meet them all again .. until then here's to all of the them , Theo , Sirkits , Tuggy, Blackie and Poppet .. gone but never forgotten
Sorry to Ramble
Colin
He had acute Kidney Failure , and despite all efforts , there really wasn't anything to be done for him,
He was the last of our 6 cats that we shared our hose with for a total of 23 years...
We moved into our house in 1991 , and as part of the deal, we took on 4 adult cats that had belonged to the previous owners, the cats had lived in the house all their lives and we couldn't turn them out, despite never having owned a pet in the past!
We had them for 11 years and they thrived, we lost one of the original 4 in the second year , thanks to a car accident , but a stray wandered in a few months later , and simply stayed, the other 3 tolerated him.. sort of! and that was it for over a decade
In 2002 into 2003 we lost 3 of the 4 of hem to Kidney disease and Cancer , leaving just one of them ,Blackie, who was soon joined by another stray, Poppet who showed up in the Summer of 2003, liked the look of the place and stayed
Blackie and Poppet put up with each other until she passed in 2007 to Cancer again,
We didn't have an ager for her , but we'd looked after her for 16 years , so we guessed her age at around 18 or so
Poppet was fully gown when he arrived, and for 11 years he thrived under our care , and enjoyed the feline high life , until he had to leave us .. Sniff
After a cat free 3 months we took on 2 Cat Protection re homes in November , Parker and Otis, they're young (3 & 4) big, (parker is 14 lbs of pure muscle and walks on a lead!!) Otis is a jet black mini Panther , and they complete our lives again
I hope some day to meet them all again .. until then here's to all of the them , Theo , Sirkits , Tuggy, Blackie and Poppet .. gone but never forgotten
Sorry to Ramble
Colin
