When I was a senior in high school (99) I got out of my boyfriend’s car and heard a kitten meowing. I walked to our side porch and found two very small kittens, so young that their eyes were still closed. The little gray and white one was meowing his heart out and I thought the black one was dead, turned out he wasn’t. Over the next few weeks I woke up every two hours and fed them through a bottle.  They were my first babies and my only formula fed babies.  I had major mommy guilt when I left a couple of months later for college and a couple of years later when I moved in with my boyfriend, now husband, they came with me.

I didn’t realize they would freak out over the move so much and within about 30 minutes of arriving Kodi, the black one, was stuck in Big Daddy’s couch and Kirby, the gray and white one, was wedge behind an entertainment center. After that they spent a couple of days in a bedroom getting acclimated to the new smells and environment.

Over the last 8 years my cats and Big Daddy have had their share of arguments. But Kirby is big, soft, and cuddly and always won his heart back.  Tonight, I picked Kirby up and he made some weird movements and then let out a deep sigh, his last breath.

I was in complete shock I have had animals that have been put to sleep but I’ve never been there. I have never witnessed a death. I’m glad that I was holding him as he took his last breath but wow I’m in complete shock about what happened.

I took a couple of minutes to tell him good bye and compose myself and then I had Big Daddy bring in Monkey.  I wasn’t ready for the whole heaven talk so I left the place unnamed. I explained to him about souls and how they leave the body. I told him to us he appeared dead but to Kirby he was alive in a different place where his food and water bowls are always full, his litter box is always clean, and he can scratch on stuff as much as he wants.  He got a little chocked up and insisted that Big Daddy bury him, so that’s what we did. Wish us luck with that cause I’m going to kill over if the dogs dig him up.

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