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Earlier this week I posted to wish people a Happy Hallowe'en, but for me it was actually quite a sad week. Last Saturday morning (October 29), my beautiful little cat Tara passed away at the age of sixteen and a half. She went peacefully, at home, lying in one of her favourite spots. She was a wonderful cat right up to the end. Even in her last couple of weeks, she would gamely muster up a purr in response to attention given to her and for help given to her in getting to food and water dishes and comfortable sleeping spots. I kept hoping she would start to eat more, so she could get some strength back and rally, but it wasn't to be. She has a lovely final resting spot in a stand of woods out behind the house, with a ravine and a stream, her prowling grounds for many years. I miss her terribly.
Born on March 20, 1995, we got her in May of that year. Our neighbours across the street were getting a kitten from some people they knew, and arranged to get us one, too. So Tara lived right across the street from one of her sisters. We had been planning to get two kittens from them, but that didn't work out. So a couple of weeks after getting Tara, we got a second kitten from a newspaper ad. Since Tara was here two weeks before Paddy (and two weeks his senior in age, as well), she always figured she was boss cat. Since Paddy is three times bigger than Tara, he always thought he was boss cat. So it worked for both of them. ;-)
 Tara with me 1995 |  Tara 2010 |
She'd hang out with me while I was playing guitar, which is how she'd sometimes turn up in my guitar videos. Rolled up in a ball here, you can only see half of her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLzZM0H5al8 And I gave her and Paddy a video of their own, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flyFAUOUpNs When she was younger, she liked to go up on the roof of the house, then meow down just to make sure someone saw she had gotten up there. Then pretend she needed help getting down (even though she didn't need help). She loved running along a balcony railing in the house, too. Like most cats, she could be quite the acrobat.
This past Christmas, my sister gave me a swivel office chair to set up with the computer I had just gotten. Tara took an immediate liking to it, and decided it was hers. So which one of us got the chair when they wanted it? See below. But she let me use it sometimes. :-)
Paddy's been sticking close to us this week. He misses her, too.
 Tara's Office Chair |  Paddy and Tara |
Updated: Saturday, November 5, 2011 6:15 AM EDT
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