Homage to Buddy-A Great Cat's Walk Through His Heaven

 Our Buddy and His Friends!

Buddy has taken his last long walk.  On August 16, 2020, he made a peaceful transition to Cat Heaven.

He was so proud of his homemade bed!

                Just rearranged the stuff and plopped right down on it!

8/16/2020  Buddy has moved on to a higher plane to be with all our other adopted strays.  He quietly passed today.  It’s bittersweet, he had lost so much weight, but was eating, drinking and liking the master bathroom as his rental home.  He was such a gentle giant with all the others and there were a lot over the years.  We’re gathering the photos and will have to scan some in, as we don’t seem to have digital photos of 1 of the cats that he will be reunited with. We just can't find Mittens' photos.

It’s been difficult to not see him, he was such a presence for so long.  The gentle giant of the household.  He was the calm one, the tolerant one, the one who caused no problems, the one who loved all people as well as cats.

He loved presents and boxes

Buddy and Lily

Buddy and Baby

Buddy and Rusty

Buddy and Grayce

    Buddy and Biggles

Roll Call

It fit in our hand, found on a dark Halloween night. A pure black cat on a black night on a blacktop road in the rain.  Our downstairs neighbor kept asking – how is it? And we’d say it’s fine.  By the time he was big enough for us to know what he was, he’d concluded IT was his name. He was part Siamese. The vocal part, 10/31/1992 – 4/4/2014

Corkette (Corky) found us when we moved in, she had cuts and gashes was around 7 months old. A long legged, thin long cat and long tailed--Abyssinian  1/1996 -12/23/2010

Tom T. Hall came with the house as we discovered.  Had no home, showed up 3 times a day for meals, loved walking on a harness around the neighborhood. Had no voice, but could purr.  A large gray and white tux. 1989-90-5/31/2011

Casper pure white used to hiss and we could only pet him when he was eating.  He became a lap cat.  He was our Angel Fund Cat with cancer of the eye.  1998-3/8/2008

Mittens showed up on a cold Thanksgiving, thought she was a kitten, she was small, but turned out to be 2-3 years old.  For 7 years the rest of the cats didn’t know that the sliding screen door could be opened.  Mittens showed them how to get out.  Including Casper, who was blind from cancer by then. She was a black and white. 2001 – 5/14/2011 We know we have photos of her, just not where they are.

Lily Marlaine was about a year or less when she started coming to eat. Someone broke her back and we saw her dragging herself up our driveway to come eat as we got home from work.  Another immediate trip to the vet. The back left her with a limp and difficulty walking and jumping.  Lily then developed a thyroid condition as she got older, you couldn’t pill her.  Compounded medicine rubbed in her ears twice a day was the routine and that was not to her liking.  She was a pretty black and white tux.  7/1/2005-1/2/2016.

That leaves Squeekie as our oldest rescue at 10 and the kittens at 7 now, already!  Biggles/Big G came in Hurricane Hermine, he's grown up here.  He's filled out and since we're rid of fleas now for 2 years, he looks great.

That's our little family over the years. They've been missed each was unique.