Well, we are fairly certain that Girl aka The Invisible Cat has died. We haven’t seen her since Sunday. Sweety went to the pound to see if she’d been picked up by animal control (which would have been weird anyway since she never went farther than the tree in the front yard) and she wasn’t there. I combed around here to see if she was stuck somewhere and didn’t find her. Sweety’s said she was around 16 or 17 years old and we think she just crawled off somewhere to die.
Something odd? When I was leaving to run errands Saturday morning I looked at her and said, “Hey, Girl – you’re fixing to leave us aren’t you?” Then I cried on the way to Target because I thought she would be gone when I got home. (Um, I also puked my guts out the whole way too due to the severity of my hangover. I was feeling extra emotional that day.) She was still there and I gave her lots of love in the driveway and told her how surprised I was to see her. I gave her extra wet food Saturday night, she was out sunning herself Sunday morning and that’s the last we saw of her.
Part of me wonders if I jinxed her. Sunday afternoon we went shopping and bought the biggest flat of canned cat food the store had so we wouldn’t need to go back soon. I’m going to take it to the shelter this weekend.
That second photo? Farthest that I’d ever gotten her to come into the house. I guess months on a wet food diet will make even the most suspicious cat let down her guard once in awhile.
She had a good life.
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This makes me so sad. Anytime anything happens to an animal makes me sad, but I feel like we’ve hardly had a chance to know her.
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Chickie said:
January 20th, 2010 at 12:37 pm
I keep looking for her in her spot in the garage. She was kind of hard to know. She was very much her own cat.
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January 20th, 2010 12:29 pm
I am sorry. I will keep my fingers crossed that she shows up in the garage or at the tree one day in the near future wondering what all the fuss is about.
That is a little weird about the Saturday premonition. At least that gave you the opportunity to show her that you cared for her.
I am very glad that she had a good life with you.
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Chickie said:
January 20th, 2010 at 1:09 pm
I’m hoping she shows up too but she literally NEVER left the house. She’d go sit under a tree to catch some sun but that was it. One of our neighbors mentioned that it was nice that our cat was so well-mannered and didn’t come into his yard. I told Sweety about my thoughts on Saturday night and he thought I was nuts.
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January 20th, 2010 12:54 pm
I’m sorry Girl’s not around anymore. Sam really enjoyed meeting her, she was a polite cat.
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Chickie said:
January 20th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
I think Girl was in awe of The Artist. It made her meek.
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January 20th, 2010 1:41 pm
Sigh…
I’m grateful you and Sweety were so kind to her.
Nuthin’ else to say. :^(
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Chickie said:
January 20th, 2010 at 10:53 pm
Thank you.
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January 20th, 2010 5:15 pm
I am sorry to hear about your cat. It still hurts just as bad as it did when I was a little kid. You are so kind to animals and I am sure in time another critter will need you.
Big Hugs,
Pam
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Chickie said:
January 20th, 2010 at 10:54 pm
Heh, I noticed today that a neighborcat (also elderly) was snooping around and my first instinct was to pop open a can of food for him. I didn’t because he is well cared for and I think Sweety would lose it if he caught me feeding someone new so soon.
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January 20th, 2010 5:26 pm
If she is invisible, how do you know she is dead?
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Chickie said:
January 20th, 2010 at 11:02 pm
I guess she was mostly invisible here. I didn’t blog about her much because she didn’t have much to do with me until recently when she started getting wet food.
I just know. She wasn’t the kind of cat to go off.
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January 20th, 2010 6:31 pm
I’m so sorry. I was reading this on my phone over lunch and I started crying in the middle of the pizza joint. Big hugs to you. – G
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Chickie said:
January 20th, 2010 at 11:02 pm
I’m sorry I made you cry! But thank you!
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January 20th, 2010 10:12 pm
16+ years is a long time for a cat. I hope that your intuition is wrong; but I fear that you are correct. I’m sorry that there is such uncertainly around her. I know that you have a special place in your heart for animals.
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Chickie said:
January 20th, 2010 at 11:03 pm
Sweety said he hoped if he didn’t find her at the pound that I’d find her here somewhere so we’d have closure. I told him that I didn’t need to find her little body for closure. But now I’m wishing I had.
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January 20th, 2010 10:17 pm
Ohhh :( My cat is 18yo and I’m worried about this. He’s older than all our friends’ kids, lol.
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Chickie said:
January 20th, 2010 at 11:04 pm
Yeah, she was older than the boys too. They never fooled with her but are missing her now.
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January 20th, 2010 11:00 pm
RIP sweet kitty. I have had that happen to me 3 times and it is very unnerving because you don’t exactly have closure.
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Chickie said:
January 23rd, 2010 at 5:53 pm
We won’t have another outside cat. I’ve been trying to talk Sweety into getting a “back porch cat” but he isn’t agreeable.
I think the house needs a cat somewhere. To keep the balance.
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January 21st, 2010 11:12 am
Oh…dear…So sorry to read about Girl/ You are probably right though. Being 17 or so, she just might have gobe off somewhere away from you all so shje could die…..It is sweet that she was actually coming around some since the wet food. Poor little ‘Girl’. My heart goes out to her and to you, dear Chickie.
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Chickie said:
January 23rd, 2010 at 5:54 pm
I know she’s gone but I decided that all of her cat stuff needs to stay in the garage for at least another week or so. Just in case she comes dragging in.
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January 23rd, 2010 10:09 am
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