In just a few days, it will be 8 long years since i lost my sweet black and white cat with the gorgeous green eyes we named Sara Lee.
My sister found her under her shed- she was so dirty she was grey, she was just skin and bones, and yet she was trying to nurse her litter of 4 kittens.
She was very sick, and her kittens had to be taken from her for her to get well, but she cried and cried for her babies and searched everywhere for her.
My sister named her Sara in honor of another mother who was desperately missing her child.
I gave her the middle name of Lee, my sister's middle name, in honor of my sister who routinely rescues strays, takes them to the vet, cleans them up and gets them healthy and then finds homes for them.
She asked me to cat sit for her (i wasn't allowed to have cats at the time) and when she came back to pick up Sara, i said, uh-uh, sorry,this cat has claimed me as her own!
i fell head over heals in love with her!!
Her belly practically dragged on the ground, it was so stretched out from having litters of kittens, and when she walked, it would sway from side to side. i guess most folks would find that unattractive, but it was one of the things i loved about her- reminded me of her feirce devotion to her kittens.
She was so grateful to have a warm place to sleep, food on a regular basis, and some catnip from time to time. She really didn't ask for much at all, and the smallest thing made her happy.
Because of the stress of having been a stray plus all those litters, she got sick, had extremely unstable diabetes and eventually her kidneys and other organ systems began to fail.
i had to make the heartwrenching decision to let her go.
The last memory i have of her as still-in-ok-health, was when we were both getting up in the morning and walking quickly but quietly to the back of the house where i had hung bird feeders, because just after dawn, the back porch would be flooded with birds-
and Sara would trot along beside me, looking up at me expectantly, as we went to see the birds-
she'd sit and chirrup and chirrup, so happy...
oh, i miss her so much!!
what a cat! what a wonderful wonderful cat!
My sister found her under her shed- she was so dirty she was grey, she was just skin and bones, and yet she was trying to nurse her litter of 4 kittens.
She was very sick, and her kittens had to be taken from her for her to get well, but she cried and cried for her babies and searched everywhere for her.
My sister named her Sara in honor of another mother who was desperately missing her child.
I gave her the middle name of Lee, my sister's middle name, in honor of my sister who routinely rescues strays, takes them to the vet, cleans them up and gets them healthy and then finds homes for them.
She asked me to cat sit for her (i wasn't allowed to have cats at the time) and when she came back to pick up Sara, i said, uh-uh, sorry,this cat has claimed me as her own!
i fell head over heals in love with her!!
Her belly practically dragged on the ground, it was so stretched out from having litters of kittens, and when she walked, it would sway from side to side. i guess most folks would find that unattractive, but it was one of the things i loved about her- reminded me of her feirce devotion to her kittens.
She was so grateful to have a warm place to sleep, food on a regular basis, and some catnip from time to time. She really didn't ask for much at all, and the smallest thing made her happy.
Because of the stress of having been a stray plus all those litters, she got sick, had extremely unstable diabetes and eventually her kidneys and other organ systems began to fail.
i had to make the heartwrenching decision to let her go.
The last memory i have of her as still-in-ok-health, was when we were both getting up in the morning and walking quickly but quietly to the back of the house where i had hung bird feeders, because just after dawn, the back porch would be flooded with birds-
and Sara would trot along beside me, looking up at me expectantly, as we went to see the birds-
she'd sit and chirrup and chirrup, so happy...
oh, i miss her so much!!
what a cat! what a wonderful wonderful cat!
