Sad day at our house
We had a sad day at our house this week. My son's little kitty Sassy ended up having to be put to sleep. We got these two about three years ago from an animal shelter and they have been the cutest, most aggravating pair ever since. We think their mother was feral because they are both semi-wild and very skittery. But also very smart and endlessly amusing.
Sass was always Blake's cat. She would go to any length to keep one of us from petting her (which was sad because she had the SOFTEST fur), but she would climb all over him and slept in his bed every night. In a lot of ways, she was like his best friend. I just LOVE this picture! 
She was such a weird little kitty in so many ways. We taught both the kittens to sit up and beg for treats. Buster's way of begging is to stretch clear up and grab with both paws, but her way was to sit up on her butt like a little Meerkat. I so wish I'd gotten a picture of her doing this, it was so cute. But then half the time, she would refuse to eat the treat and would scratch at it like she was burying poo until Buster would generously come over and eat it for her (there's a reason why he's twice her size).
She was also our little techno-kitty. She loved to sit on top of our computer monitor and watch us work and came running every time she heard the printer start up. She also had a sniff obsession - she literally had to sniff everything that came into the house. And if she didn't like the smell of it, she would give it what we called her "ick face" with her jaw dropped and her nose crinkled up - another thing I wish I'd gotten a picture of. 
But sadly, she had another weird habit, which lead to her downfall. She liked to carry stuff around in her mouth - cellophane, string, pennies, pieces from the Sorry game, balls of tinfoil, raffia and Lord only knows what. Apparently she swallowed something she shouldn't have and it caused an intestinal blockage. $300 worth of vet bills later, she wasn't able to pass it. We could have paid the $800 for the surgery to fix it, but who can say if she would just turn around and do it again next week? You just can't explain to a silly little kitty that eating stuff like that is bad for you. 
Poor sweet little Sassy, we'll sure miss you. 
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4 comments:
Sorry for your families loss! Sassy looks like darling cat.
Oh that is so sad! :( My parents have a cat "Henry" and my girls just love going to visit. If anything happened to him, I know they'd be devastated. I Hope your son handles this ok !
You have my sympathies as well... We lost our Gardner (also 1 of 2 feral kittens, my daughter found near our garden -- hence his name) last fall. He looked exactly like Sassy -- the "M" on his forehead, etc. Our vet says the "M" is a sign of a Norwegian Hunting Cat! Gardner was 13 years old though, and had diabetes for about 6 years, needing insulin shots twice a day, etc., which eventually just wore him down, made him lose his sense of smell, and he stopped eating... Gardner also was one to eat whatever he found on the floor and on more than one occasion, had ribbon or a rubber band or something sticking out of his butt, and he was also the reason we had to stop putting tinsel on our Christmas tree; he'd eat that, too! I guess we were just fortunate he never got a blockage like Sassy. Treasure your memories, and the pix you do have...
Sorry about your kitty. So sad! We had to put one of our cats down recently too, and she looked just like your kitty. She had kittens and one or more died inside her, and we couldn't afford the vet bills and she had also bit a neigbor's child due to her being uncomfortable and the child trying to pick her up so we had to put her down.. it was a sad sad day for me. We had recently adopted her when a teenager found her roaming a park and very thin, shortly after she was showing signs of being pregnant.
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