OT: Scooter's gone

Hi Eileen

I'm sorry to see this so late but I know exactly how you feel.  Scooter has gotten you through many trials and obstacles.  Just remember--you will always have all of us. 

We had to put our Candy to sleep at the ripe old age of 17 on August 5, 2009 and that was after a weekend of her refusing food and water unless you put it right up to her mouth and she pooped outside the box.  It was her way of telling us that was enough.  I cried that entire weekend and we couldn't do it until that Wednesday so DH and I would be together. 

She was my buddy too--she got me through a hysterectomy and the WLS.  Never left my side while I was downstairs and would get really upset if I didn't get home at the appointed time.  We got her from the shelter and that was after our cat Garfield died and we had Pepper and they were buds until Pepper died at 14.

I thought we would never get another pet because it was too hard until my SIL rescued a mama cat from my MIL's yard and she had 4 kittens (2 male and 2 female).  She had to find homes for the kittens because her husband would only let her keep the mama.  She proceeded to send us a picture of the 4 little kittens at 3 weeks old in a basket and asked if we KNEW anyone who wanted a kitten.  I immediately went to a gray kitty with a teddy bear nose and my DH agreed.  We were going to pick him up on Memorial Day but a wrinkle got thrown in--the runt of the litter (a female) firmly attached herself to him and we had to take her too but there was one bitty problem--she wasn't weaned yet.  On June 27th, we picked them up and named the gray one Smokey and the little one Princess.  On August 5, 2010 (the 1 year anniversary of when we brought Candy in to be put to sleep), they were in being spayed and neutered and declawed in the front.  They are doing fine and Smokey is a lover kitty but Princess is still a little more standoffish.  Smokey will go on your lap but Princess is more at arms length. 

My thoughts and hugs are with you.

Sylvia