Beautifully said CC. Mine always send me new ones....and, as you say, before I am ready! Keisha sent me Tessa a year ago. She is so much like Keisha, I cannot believe it. Tessa was a stray. She is healthy and sassy. She just learned how to growl from my blind cat Frankie (that's how he keeps the other cats out of his way). She's hilarious. A tiny adult with a froggie meow and a froggie growl! L
-----Original Message----- From: felvtalk-boun...@felineleukemia.org [mailto:felvtalk-boun...@felineleukemia.org] On Behalf Of Cougar Clan Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 5:18 PM To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Life without Pixie One day, when you are ready, Pixie will send you someone who needs you. That someone may be a feral, a FeLV+, an old cat that no one wants any more but it will be the right one for you. And it may come before you think you are ready but, rest assured, it will be the right one at the right time. Dixie (FeLV+ and a wonderful little lady) sent me a feral kitten (Copper Cougar) who was going to be a snack for a hawk family. Two weeks later she said take two, they are small, and sent me another one (Thomas Cougar) whose fate would have been the same. And she sent two healthy males. She knew I had some awful problems with spaying females. Both boys just celebrated their first year birthday. All of this is to say that you will be ok. You will continue to miss Pixie because there can never be a replacement and that is ok too. Every time your heart breaks, it heals and becomes stronger and bigger. Honest. On May 28, 2009, at 4:39 PM, G D wrote: > > Hi everyone. > > > I really, really appreciate > the support and wisdom this group has provided over the last 3 years > -- when strange things were happening (frothy clear vomit, a non- > dilating pupil) and I didn't know what to do, and especially during > the scary and sad days surrounding Pixie's death. This listserv is > an example of the internet at its finest, bringing together a > warm virtual community of FeLV cat guardians from across the globe. > You gave me the courage to adopt FeLV+ Pixie in the first place, > when I was only a foster parent to her and had no previous > experience with + cats. > > It's been two weeks without Pixie. Grief feels like a private hell but > apparently I'm going through all the normal stages. I was in bad > shape when I went to pick up her ashes and the woman at the > crematorium asked if Pixie had lived a long life. I could > barely reply that she was still a baby when this disease snatched her. > But once I got her urn home and put it on the mantle, which was one > of her favorite places to perch, I felt strangely relieved: the awful > business of deterioration, dying and death was over. I > attached her collar tag to my keys (the jingling sound of which > made Pixie come running from any corner of the house in the hope she'd > get to go outside). I miss her 100 times day. > > I'm comforted to know that many of you have survived the loss of a > beloved cat and have eventually come to love new cats. > > Onwards and upwards, > > Giselle > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Windows LiveT: Keep your life in sync. > http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_BR_life_in_synch_052009 > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org > > Marylyn, Copper & Thomas _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
