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Old July 20th 08, 06:31 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
Gandalf
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Default Maryweather went to the Rainbow Bridge

On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:10:23 -0500, Ted Davis wrote:

I stepped outside for a moment and when I started back in I saw
Maryweather lying dead under the back steps. I can't bury her right now
because the reason I was headed back inside was that there were skunks
only a few feet away. No visible injuries - I have no idea what killed
her, though there is a severe upper respiratory illness going around and
Tigger has the runs. I hadn't seen her in several days, but that is not
unusual.

She was my pretty little calico:
67.54.246.139:9000/tdavis/cats/camouflage.600x400.jpg
and 67.54.246.139:9000/tdavis/cats/03.jan/mary.267x400.1.jpg

Later -

Well, I buried her beside the pump house - the first place I tried where
the ground wasn't rock hard. In an effort to keep the neighbor's dogs from
digging her up, I put two concrete slabs of about 20 pounds each on top of
her grave (what with the ground being hard, me being in poor health,
and the light rapidly failing, I wasn't able to dig as deep as I would
have liked.


I'm very sorry for your loss.

I simply cannot imagine to find your beloved cat dead.

I have lit a candle for Maryweather, in my very special candle holder in
the shape of a sleeping cat.

~~~~~~~~~~~~ ^..^
"Life without cats would be only marginally worth living."
-TC, and the unmercifully, relentlessly, sweet calico kitty, Kenzie.

Every day is a treasure with Kenzie; I try to treat them that way. There
will only be so many, and then there will never, ever, be any more.

How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
- Robert Heinlein