This week is a sad week for me and my family. Monday night I came to visit and found my cat looking very sick. He was puking repeatedly and salivating constantly. We instantly rushed him to the vet. She told us it was something that he ate and she wanted to keep him overnight to keep liquids going through his system to help him pass it. When my mother called to check on him she gave us the bad news. He had passed away during the night due to a heart problem.
He was 12 years old and was fine just days before so it was sudden and was a surprise. The house will be a lot emptier without him begging to be fed constantly and not having him laying in his box that no one is allowed to touch. He was the biggest goofball and always tried to climb on top of everything and was there to comfort you when you needed.
I got Andrew was I was 7 years old and went to a friend's birthday party. He was a barn kitten and they were trying to find him a home. I knew my parents wouldn't want another cat so I tried to ignore this little kitten, but he refused to be ignored. He followed me everywhere I went and slept with me that night and cried when my parents took me home. I begged my parents to let me have him and they said no. I gave them the silent treatment for days. And if you saw me as a child you would know there was something wrong. I never shut up.
After a day of me not talking my parents talked about it and decided to let me have him. I was so excited and immediately started to talk their ears off about the whole party and about Andrew.
The next day we went and got him and it was one of the best days of my life. I followed him around every where for the first week he was with us. He always came to bed with me when he was a kitten and I would play with him for an hour and then we would go to sleep. As he got older he slept in bed with me less and less, but there were still days he would climb into bed, play with me for an hour, and then go to sleep.
It has been a very rough couple of days and I know it will hurt for awhile, but he was the best cat I could have ever asked for and I loved him.
RIP Andrew...
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