I have hardly been able to grab a chance to get online for sometime now, but today I just had to come on and post in rainbow bridge. My darling Candy was put to sleep today aged 19. She had a brain seizure
My mum and dad were with her when she went and the vet was even sad as he has only put to sleep 3 other cats over 18.. Anyway... my tribute to my Candy
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I was 9 years old when you came to live with us with your twin sister Suzie. I can remember coming home from school in my gingham dress and seeing this tiny little kitten in the kitchen. Excitedly I went into the living room to see an identical kitten sitting on the carpet. My sister and I were allowed to name a kitten each and it would be our cat. We could only tell you apart from your sister by the black paw you had on your right back foot.
I can remember those days playing in the garden with you and some wool or string. You were a lovely girl always ready for a cuddle. Even in your last few years you were always there curled up in the hallway or someones bed in the house. Oh and that purr! You could hear it a mile away. My greatest memories of you are when you had your "dog" phase. You would bring in twigs and sometimes even sticks from the garden for us to throw and you would run after them, pick them up and bring them back to us to throw again. This went on for about 6 or 7 years!
I can also remember that dreadful time when you came in one day covered in parafin... There were some people a few doors away who used to mend their cars in the garage and they had this big vat of the stuff that you somehow must have fallen into. The vet didn't think that you would make it as you kept on licking the parafin off of yourself. Luckily you pulled through though and after that, you seemed to stay in the house or garden and never did venture very far.
Until that Christmas when I was in senior school you went missing for 3 weeks. We thought that that was the end. We kept calling you, putting leaflets in peoples doors, notices on trees until one day, 3 weeks later this lady called us and said that they had found a really skinny cat in their coal shed. As it was winter this lady had hardly gone outside but she must have accidently locked you in the shed when she had got coal a few weeks before. The amazing thing was that you had been living off a drip of water coming in the shed from the snow. The vet said then that you were so lucky to be alive. That was my happiest Christmas to date, sitting in school and getting the message that "Candy had been found alive!" The sad thing was and I still think of it now was that for those 3 weeks you would have heard us calling you yet you were helpless...
The past few years I have missed you Candy. Since the day I left home I have missed you. But it has been so touching to come home to my parents and you run down the path to greet me. You still remembered us and in your last few months got close to my father (who is ill). I somehow think that in your old age and your frailness you have taken to comforting my father. It's nice to think like that.
Anyway, I must go before I carry on too much and cry too much.... See you later in heaven my darling Candy, Candora, Can Can, Lioness xxxx Play happily with Suzie and all the other cats over Rainbow Bridge
I was 9 years old when you came to live with us with your twin sister Suzie. I can remember coming home from school in my gingham dress and seeing this tiny little kitten in the kitchen. Excitedly I went into the living room to see an identical kitten sitting on the carpet. My sister and I were allowed to name a kitten each and it would be our cat. We could only tell you apart from your sister by the black paw you had on your right back foot.
I can remember those days playing in the garden with you and some wool or string. You were a lovely girl always ready for a cuddle. Even in your last few years you were always there curled up in the hallway or someones bed in the house. Oh and that purr! You could hear it a mile away. My greatest memories of you are when you had your "dog" phase. You would bring in twigs and sometimes even sticks from the garden for us to throw and you would run after them, pick them up and bring them back to us to throw again. This went on for about 6 or 7 years!
I can also remember that dreadful time when you came in one day covered in parafin... There were some people a few doors away who used to mend their cars in the garage and they had this big vat of the stuff that you somehow must have fallen into. The vet didn't think that you would make it as you kept on licking the parafin off of yourself. Luckily you pulled through though and after that, you seemed to stay in the house or garden and never did venture very far.
Until that Christmas when I was in senior school you went missing for 3 weeks. We thought that that was the end. We kept calling you, putting leaflets in peoples doors, notices on trees until one day, 3 weeks later this lady called us and said that they had found a really skinny cat in their coal shed. As it was winter this lady had hardly gone outside but she must have accidently locked you in the shed when she had got coal a few weeks before. The amazing thing was that you had been living off a drip of water coming in the shed from the snow. The vet said then that you were so lucky to be alive. That was my happiest Christmas to date, sitting in school and getting the message that "Candy had been found alive!" The sad thing was and I still think of it now was that for those 3 weeks you would have heard us calling you yet you were helpless...
The past few years I have missed you Candy. Since the day I left home I have missed you. But it has been so touching to come home to my parents and you run down the path to greet me. You still remembered us and in your last few months got close to my father (who is ill). I somehow think that in your old age and your frailness you have taken to comforting my father. It's nice to think like that.
Anyway, I must go before I carry on too much and cry too much.... See you later in heaven my darling Candy, Candora, Can Can, Lioness xxxx Play happily with Suzie and all the other cats over Rainbow Bridge
