18 months ago my 14 year old cat died of cancer and I vowed never to get a cat again as I was so upset by it. 6 months later my friend had been given a kitten but her partner wasnt keen so in a moment of weakness I agreed to have her.
She was lovely! Just a moggie but she was so sweet natured even my Jack Russel loved her and used to play doggy/kitty tag with her and let her sleep in his bed (even we are not allowed to so much as look at his bed). Anyway, last Sunday she went missing. I called and called, knocked on doors, checked neighbours garages/sheds, leafletted the area and put up a Facebook appeal but she had vanished.
So today I was picking up my kids from school and found a stray dog, I had my dog in my car so I knocked on a door and asked them to let the dog stay in their garden while I took my dog home and then I went back to fetch the stray and took him to the vets to be scanned and he was reunited with his owner. My kids then asked if we could go to a local rope swing and off we set, we walk down the path, through the woods, the kids running ahead and they come back screaming and my youngest had just, by complete chance, found our cat at the side of the path :(
It is a bit strange as I had walked down the path twenty times or more this past week calling for her and had not seen her but she had been dead for a while :( We went home and I brought her home in the cat carrier, wrapped in my daughters baby blanket and my Dad is going to bury her tomorrow.
Sorry for the outpouring here but I just feel so sad. My eldest cried himseelf to sleep saying how unfair it was and it is, she was only just one, a lovely cat and my children adored her.
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