I found tiger as a stray in 1998, she
was only a kitten and my dog lady chased her up a tree. I called her down and
she lost her footing and fell, i caught her and immediatly knew she was my cat.
after several hours of crying and pleading my dad let me keep her. She was in
the house during the day and slept in her own cat house at night. But one day
she ran away for three days and mom decided that from now on she would be an
indoor cat. Tiger was half tabby, half Egyptian Mau and was a very shy cat whom
only liked me. She was terrified of my brother and his children when they came
to live with us when aunt Marie died in a car accident. My poor cat was
traumatized every day by the kids when i was not there. She would spend her days
hiding under the covers of my bed. She would cuddle up with me at night. The vet
was the one that told me she was a mau and he told me they have alot of problems
because they are inbred. When old age hit tiger lost alot of wieght and threw up
every day, she stopped using the litterbox and it was so horrible to clean up
after her. We did not have the money to get her medicine and mom pushed me to
put her to sleep. She was euthanized on January 28th, 2000. She did not want to
die and the doctor said the euthenasia takes 15 minutes to work but she just
fell over dead. The vet said he had never seen an animal go so fast.
Tiger was a dragon trapped in the body of a cat. when she died i heard a
loud growl because she did not want to be seperated from me. The cat goddess
Bastet tells me that Tiger refuses to cross over because she wants to be with
me. She will wait untill its my time and then she will be with me
forever.
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