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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / June 2006Max is home
I took his ashes home today. Max is sleeping on one of his favorite bookshelves. Cat of a lifetime. But I'm not dead yet. I know there are those of you who have won the trust and love of a completely free cat. I've heard from you. Thanks H. > I took his ashes home today. > Max is sleeping on one of his favorite bookshelves. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Thanks > H. I'm glad he's back home. The hurt will become less with time. With the passage of time, the happy memories will come more easily. The fact that Max came to trust you and love you is a powerful testament to your character. Hang in there. It does get better. Dan My character? (chuckles) Max's character makes me pale in comparison. I always expected him to just not come home some day. There are 12,000 acres of woods around our hill. In half a decade I had to fish him out of a tree twice. Brown Tabbies on an oak tree are invisible; The woods are oaks and juniper. The Saturday before Max died he was pigging out on baby rabbits. He could have swallowed a bone wrong. Who knows? I lost a wonderful border collie that way at the same age as Max thirty years ago. Senator John Jack Cheese loved me too. Sade has a song "No ordinary love." Anybody who thinks only humans have souls isn't paying attention. Nite all H. >> I took his ashes home today. >> Max is sleeping on one of his favorite bookshelves. [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Dan >Anybody who thinks only humans have souls isn't paying attention. >Nite all >H. I agree. They each have little souls. Not little as in lesser, but little as in cute and agile. Max's life sounded like it was full of fun, although ick about the baby rabbits. I'm glad he's with you, at least that part of him that was born of our Mama Earth. Surely Max's spirit shall be a guard and guiding star for you, even in his "retirement." Mr. Stevens, you're a poetic man. Max must have had a great appreciation of the things in life that make for poetry, and must be part of the bond you shared that I can feel as I read your posts. Blessed be, Baha >I took his ashes home today. >Max is sleeping on one of his favorite bookshelves. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >Thanks >H. I'm glad you've got your boy home. PB's ashes are sitting on the dresser waiting for.......I don't know......the thought of scattering them is just too painful/final at the moment. I want/need to keep him close for now and maybe for as long as I live. {{{{{H}}}}  SignatureShirley http://community.webshots.com/user/shirleycatuk >I took his ashes home today. > Max is sleeping on one of his favorite bookshelves. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Thanks > H. > I took his ashes home today. > Max is sleeping on one of his favorite bookshelves. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Thanks > H. Lots and lots of purrs and hugs, Polonca and Soncek >> I took his ashes home today. >> Max is sleeping on one of his favorite bookshelves. [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > Lots and lots of purrs and hugs, > Polonca and Soncek I found a couple of cats at the local shelter. Pick 'em up Friday. We shall see how they fare on Max's hill. One's a spay female, still a kitten, the other a neutered male, about 2-3 years old. Think I'll name 'em Lily Litvak(she's already drawn blood) and Bill Lear. (There are a couple of names to google.) Lily http://www.flightsim.com/cgi/kds?$=main/feature/wia1.htm Russia's top female fighter ace in World War II was Lilya Litvak, The White Rose of Stalingrad. Bill http://www.wingsoverkansas.com/history/article.asp?id=103 Lear, who had only an eighth-grade education, also held more than 150 patents. He is credited with inventing the car radio, the eight-track stereo tape player and cartridges, the autopilot for jet aircraft, the navigational radio, and the radio direction-finder for general aviation aircraft. > I found a couple of cats at the local shelter. > Pick 'em up Friday. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Think I'll name 'em Lily Litvak(she's already drawn blood) and Bill Lear. > (There are a couple of names to google.) Congratulations on the new additions to your family! SignatureMarina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. Stories and pics at http://koti.welho.com/mkurten/ Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki I'll report dutifully. Max will be a hard act to follow. In very important ways that was the closest relationship I've had with another living being. Never underestimate a cat. Later and thanks for the purrs. H. >> I found a couple of cats at the local shelter. >> Pick 'em up Friday. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Congratulations on the new additions to your family! > I'll report dutifully. > Max will be a hard act to follow. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Later and thanks for the purrs. > H. I lost my Frank last December. He had just turned 18, and he had been with me since he was 5 months old. He was my little soulmate, and though I dearly love my two youngsters, Miranda and Caliban, I don't think either of them will ever be able to fill the hole that Frank left. SignatureMarina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. Stories and pics at http://koti.welho.com/mkurten/ Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki Bingo! Something about cats, and Max was the penultimate for me. So far. Can it get better? Eighteen. What a blessing. Lucille made 17. I shall die with the memory of her patiently tolerating doll clothes and strollers without complaint. Named for BB King's guitar and Frank Zappa's song of the same name. Lucille. Lucille makes the short list. H. >> I'll report dutifully. >> Max will be a hard act to follow. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > dearly love my two youngsters, Miranda and Caliban, I don't think either > of them will ever be able to fill the hole that Frank left. > Bingo! Something about cats, and Max was the penultimate for me. So > far. Can it get better? [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Lucille makes the short list. <smile> Frank was named for Zappa. He had a little goatee beard just like Zappa's. http://koti.welho.com/mkurten/frank.htm SignatureMarina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. Stories and pics at http://koti.welho.com/mkurten/ Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki Lucille You mess my mind up. >> Bingo! Something about cats, and Max was the penultimate for me. So >> far. Can it get better? [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > <smile> Frank was named for Zappa. He had a little goatee beard just > like Zappa's. http://koti.welho.com/mkurten/frank.htm > I shall die with the memory of her patiently tolerating doll clothes and > strollers without complaint. Do you have a confession to make? :) Joyce Confession? No Lucille's doll-clothes expert has gone on to graduate from college. > > I shall die with the memory of her patiently tolerating doll clothes and > > strollers without complaint. > > Do you have a confession to make? :) > > Joyce > Confession? > No > Lucille's doll-clothes expert has gone on to graduate from college. I was just joking. OK, now I"m curious: what did the doll-clothes expert major in? :) Joyce > > Confession? > > No [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Joyce Art > > OK, now I"m curious: what did the doll-clothes expert major in? :) > Art Ah ha! I'll bet s/he would make a good costume designer. :) Joyce And may they live as poetic a life as you made for Max. Certainly he'll have some big shoes to fill, but the new kids are siblings not replacements. I'm glad you found new furbabies for your home and heart. Blessed be, Baha > >> I took his ashes home today. > >> Max is sleeping on one of his favorite bookshelves. [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > Think I'll name 'em Lily Litvak(she's already drawn blood) and Bill Lear. > (There are a couple of names to google.) A life I made for Max? A life Max made for me. A six-week-old kitten emerged from thousands of acres of woods filled with predators and outwitted all odds for just the right amount of time. Those eyes. At the risk of being accused of religion I think God put off running the universe to spend a few years sharing a hill with me. That's what I think of that cat. H. > And may they live as poetic a life as you made for Max. Certainly he'll > have [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Blessed be, > Baha mercifully deleted > At the risk of being accused of religion I think God put off running the > universe to spend a few years sharing a hill with me. What do you mean, a *hill*? I'm really glad you've adopted two new babies. Great names! Max would be proud. Joyce Hills are what's left after erosion. Mountains result from uplift. I'm sure Max is quite proud. He loved to sit in the window and look across the pasture. I'd whisper "Max": and the tiniest twitch of his tail said "I love you." H. > > At the risk of being accused of religion I think God put off running the > > universe to spend a few years sharing a hill with me. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Joyce > Hills are what's left after erosion. > Mountains result from uplift. Oh, a wiseguy, eh? :) No, I meant: what did you mean by "God took a few years off running the universe to share a hill with me"? I was just wondering what hill you were referring to. > He loved to sit in the window and look across the pasture. > I'd whisper "Max": and the tiniest twitch of his tail said "I love you." He sounds like the most wonderful kitty! Joyce, not really expecting to get a straight answer! I own a hill in the country. So it's my hill. Actually it's Max's hill, too. That was a straight answer. H. > > Hills are what's left after erosion. > > Mountains result from uplift. [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Joyce, not really expecting to get a straight answer! > I own a hill in the country. > So it's my hill. > Actually it's Max's hill, too. > That was a straight answer. > H. OK! :) Thank you. I understood now. You and Max and God, together on a hill on your property. Joyce I'm the resident religious nut here, I think; and I think that, since he couldn't be everywhere all the time, he must have put a little bit of Himself in Max. I think God does it with all our cats. You make your lives for each other, that's what makes the relationship so deep and special. Blessed be, Baha > A life I made for Max? > A life Max made for me. [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > mercifully deleted Well then I must be your opposite. Actually I think it explains why the world went to hell since 2,000. Max was giving me his undivided attention. > I'm the resident religious nut here, I think; and I think that, since he > couldn't be everywhere all the time, he must have put a little bit of [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] >> >> mercifully deleted > I found a couple of cats at the local shelter. > Pick 'em up Friday. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Think I'll name 'em Lily Litvak(she's already drawn blood) and Bill Lear. > (There are a couple of names to google.) Congrats! Best wishes, Polonca and Soncek >I took his ashes home today. >Max is sleeping on one of his favorite bookshelves. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >Thanks >H. {{{{{{H.}}}}}}}} I'm so sorry for your loss. Max will always be a part of you, for the rest of your life. Take care of yourself, and hang in there. Blessings, Ginger-lyn Home Pages: http://www.moonsummer.com http://www.angelfire.com/folk/glsummer (homepage & cats) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~summer/index.htm (genealogy) http://www.movieanimals.bravehost.com/ (The Violence Against Animals in Movies Website) |
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