[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Cats
- From: Dawn Restuccia <windwych@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: helen@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 18:13:21 -0700 (PDT)
We found this little tuxedo spitfire hiding in a corner of the room at the
farmhouse where we had gone in response to a "Free Kittens" sign....When I
reached for her I heard a loud "HISSSS", followed by a quick SWAT on my
reaching hand. I chuckled because I knew, this little ball of fluff was comming
home with me. No one else would put up with these shenanigans...
She was commonly marked...just a short haired black and white princess who we
dubbed "Charlotte"; the name comming from James Michners book "Cenntennial".
Charlotte was a high strung cattlerancher...mistress of all she surveyed. It
seemed the name suited her. Her eyes were as yellow as Italian gold and
commanded half of her face. She joined the household with assorted kids, dogs
and another cat named
"Fluffy"....an Ellen M. Gifford Home for Cats escapee who had savored one too
many meatballs and looked eerily simliar to a grey Garfield.
Together these two terrorized the local bird market....these were the days
when cats still were allowed to be cats and enjoy the freedom of the great
outdoors.
Their epicurian tastes ranged from local baby rabbits, quail, pheasant and even
the occasional weasel! No fainting damsel was Charlotte! Their midnight hunts
found our yard littered with corpses of various shapes and sizes; something not
easily explained to a 5 year old.
Charlotte had taken on the responsibility of putting my son Ronnie to bed
each night...she would climb up onto his pillow and purr her loudest purr until
he fell asleep to the gentle hum. Once she was certain that sleep had overtaken
him, she would rise, stretch and yawn as cats are wont to do....then meander
off in search or a tasty evening morsel.
While Fluffy succumbed to an unknown kitty illness and left us far too young,
Charlotte remained..steadfast in her appointed position of babysitter for
Ronnie.
Her eyes grew less brilliant; her coat not quite as full...Ronnie became Ron
and girls came along...and cars...and finally a wife....and Charlotte was with
us thru it all....twentythree years of unlimited purrs....and people say that
cats are not devoted....I think Ron would beg to differ....and so would
Charlotte..
Dawn Restuccia
Dorothy, and no this aint Kansas
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