After 17 wonderful years of love and companionship we had to put down our cat Moonshine. She had been living with my parents and had been fighting cancer for the last six years. The tumor had returned and grown so big that it was the best decision for her but the hardest one for me, especially since I was so far away. I felt like such a bad person, abandoning her when she was so old and sick. I said goodbye to her over skype but it was really hard and I cried horribly for days. I had secretly been hoping that she could hang on until I got to see her in December so I could say goodbye in person but after my parents let me take one look at her on skype I knew it would be cruel to make her hold on just for my selfish needs. My parents made her a nice little place to rest in the back yard.
She was a wonderful cat for so many years of my life. I got her as a kitten from the stable I took riding lessons at and she has been through so much with me and my family including moving states four times. She absolutely loved playing with our first dog Taffy, but by the time my second dog Desiree came around she decided she hated dogs with a passion, even though Desiree loved her. What she did love though was tuna juice, quail feathers, head butts, and napping in the sun. She was a beautiful Russian Blue but she was born with genetic mutations. But they were the best mutations ever; she literally had thumbs and could pick up pencils. I will miss her funny little mitten paws. She slept with me and my family in bed but it was funny because the older she got the more she thought she moved up in status. She started sleeping at the foot of the bed as a kitten, and slowly moved up the bed until by the time she was at her oldest the thought she had earned the right to sleep smack dab in the middle of your pillow and don’t even think about shooing her away.
She was a wonderful cat and will be missed dearly by many.
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