Lost A Good Cat Today

67Dart273 said

Sorry to here, buddy. Do you know how old he was? I miss mine, am thinking of getting a couple more. One reason I don't is because after the other two had passed on, there was some time there, I used poison for mice. I'm not TERRIBLY sure where all it might be. I realize now I'd made a mistake. Some of it was "loose" instead of in a 'dining out' container

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He was about 15. He just showed up as a tiny kitten. Fastest cat I have ever seen. He couldn't have been more than 6 weeks old. You could be looking right at him and then literally he would run so fast that you couldn't see him. POOF! GONE! So, I devised a way to trap his little ***. I took a flat rate box and made a box trap with some tuna in it and put it on the back porch with a stick holding the box up with string on the stick going under the back door. I got his little ***. AS SOON AS I reached in the box to get him, the little BUTTHOLE clamped onto my thumb with ALL HE HAD with his teeth. I knew I couldn't let go so I ran him to the spare bathroom and threw him in and shut the door. We took a bowl of food and milk in and I had him purring in less than a minute.

What's really odd is, about six or seven years ago, he just disappeared. GONE, without a trace. Then about three and a half years later, I opened the door, and THERE HE WAS on the front porch. He's been with us ever since. We joked he got on the UPS truck and toured the country. We just don't know WHERE he went. But, he died on our back porch, at HIS home and he knew damn well he was loved. So, Kitty wrapped him up in a small blanket she crocheted, and.......put him in a flat rate box. That's what I'm going to bury him in tomorrow.