To my ever precious Tret Fure from "Mama" Carol



You are my "forever cat". I couldn't possibly have loved you more = and still do, and always will. You were always the first face I saw when I woke. You were always there watching over me. We'd pull up the blanket and we would pretend we were playing "camping in our tent".  You'd walk into my arms and we would "talk" - yes, we'd talk. Throughout our days, you would give me so many "kisses"- placed your little nose on my lips. I was so proud that the Humane Society in the county had your picture on January 2000 calendar and your brief appearance in "Cat Fancy" magazine. God gave you to us for 13 years. We wear gold "pawprint pendants" now. They have four paw prints on one side and your name and the words engraved on the other side, "Always in my heart". It rests over the part of my heart where your spirit lives on. I can "see", in my mind's eye every day. Jesus has a most wonderful cat now. See you at the "Rainbow Bridge" someday soon. My life was so enriched and filled with unconditional love because of you. Though I still grieve, there is so much with in me that celebrates your life and our time together. You brought me so much joy. 



Thank you, my love. "Mama"





From the first day I saw you I fell in love with you. You were so cute and loveable. Almost immediately, we started our nightly ritual of bedtime tummy rubs. You knew if you played cute you could talk me into more than one tummy rub a day. I remember the day we brought you home - you searched the hair on our heads, looking for your mother's nipples. In fact, in over 13 years, even though you kept searching, you never found them. At night now, I lay in bed and wait for you to jump up on my hip a few seconds, walk up and give me some kisses and then cuddle up and wait for your tummy rubs. I'm sure you have talked God or some angel into giving you tummy rubs now. Your miniature schnauzer sister, Reba, misses you too. She keeps looking for you and cannot understand why she cannot find you. After she eats, she no longer has you to groom her beard, mustache, and ears. Nor does she have you to round up from the back yard when we tell her to "go get your brother".  You will forever be my little boy, one who when I thought was as sweet and loveable as he could be, always grew sweeter and more loveable. Although I will learn to love another little kitten, he/she will never compare to you or to the love I have for you. God gave you to us for only a very short time and then wanted you back. But, He did not get all of you for a part of you lives on in my mind and my heart forever.  



"Mama" Diane





POEM FOR CATS



And God asked the feline spirit

Are you ready to come home?

Oh, yes, quite so, replied the precious soul,

And, as a cat,, you know I am most able

To decide anything for myself.

Are you coming coming then? asked God,

Soon, replied the whiskered angel

But, I must come slowly

For my human friends are troubled

For you see, they need me, quite certainly.

But don't they understand? asked God

That you'll never leave them?

That your souls are intertwined. For all eternity?    

That nothing is created or desroyed?

It just is....forever and ever and ever.

Eventually, they will understand.

Replied the glorious cat

For I will whisper into their hearts

That I am......forever and ever and ever.