Sometimes you take things for granted. Like having a small cheerful feline companion sitting on your desk acting as a muse. My muse was our cat Samantha. She was a petite long haired tabby with a charming disposition and a voracious appetite for nuzzling.Samantha's favorite spot was right next to my keyboard. Occasionally she would remind me that she was present by gently tapping my hands with her paw as I typed. She was always present and a fixture on my desk.
Today, she succumbed to cancer. After a surgery to remove her breasts, (yes it happens in cats, too) her health deteriorated and she stopped eating. I had taken her to the vet to see if he could get some fluids into her, but today her kidneys failed and she died.
She was part of our family, and though she was a cat, she will be missed by both my partner Patrick and I. Luckily we have two more members of our feline household who are alive and in good health. Though they will not replace Samantha, they will make the loss a little easier to bear.
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I am so sorry for your loss. Here is a poem a friend sent me when I loss Billy the Beagle.
Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.
When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.
All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor. Those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.
They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent. His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.
You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.
Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together....
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