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Sex: Female Weight: 11 lbs.
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Leave a treat for Angel Onyx
Nicknames:
Omelyx, Li'l Girl
Kitty Complexion:
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Sun Sign: 
Birthday:
August 6th 1997
Coloration:
Calico
Likes:
Food. And sleeping in a sunny spot with her paws in the air.
Pet-Peeves:
Being picked up. She waved her short little legs around like flippers.
Favorite Toy:
Food
Favorite Nap Spot:
On the floor in front of the French doors to the deck, when the sun is spilling in.
Favorite Food:
Pretty much liked it all, especially bits of bacon and Dad's leftover cereal milk.
Skills:
She could wiggle out of the towel she was wrapped up in when Mom tries to give her medicine.
Dwells:
indoors
Arrival Story:
When my teenage niece was living with me (she had difficulties at home and we thought a change of scenery would be good), she wanted to pierce her tongue. I said no. So she asked if she could get a tattoo. I said no. Then she asked if she could get a kitten. I said yes to that, and she picked Onyx out from a neighbor's barn kittens. When my niece went back home to her own cats, Onyx stayed with us.
Bio:
Onyx was the tiniest kitten at the farm, where there were lots of cats of all sizes. Their food was put in a big, flat steel pan, and Onyx would climb over the backs of the bigger cats, trying to get to the food. When she came to live with us, she used to sleep next to the food dish, and would get agitated if she could see the bottom of the dish. She couldn't believe that there would always be enough to eat. And she struggled with weight issues, once weighing 16 pounds, which looked like more given her short legs and short tail! She was a football with fur.
Sweet Onyx had increasing health issues. She was treated for several years for hyperthyroidism, and later for inflammatory bowel disease (the vet initially thought she had intestinal cancer, but thankfully that was not the case). In November 2010, after a long spell of what seemed to be an upper respiratory infection, she was diagnosed with lymphoma. Chemotherapy gave us several more good months with her, but in April 2011 the lymphoma spread to her brain. On April 18, we bid her a sad farewell as she journeyed to the bridge to join her brother Patch and many friends who had gone before.
Forums Motto:
What\'s to eat?
The Groups I'm In:
♥♥FORGET ME NOT♥♥, ♫ THE KIT KAT CLUB ♫ ®, American Fathair Society, Calico Owners & Lovers~, Feline Lymphoma, Olde Furts, Royal Canin® Felines
The Last Forum I Posted In:
Nellie has dandruff????
I've Been On Catster Since:
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More than 2 years! |
Rosettes Given In The Past Month:
Special Gifts Given In The Past Month:
Rosette, Star and Special Gift History
Catster Id:
1065615
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December 4th 2011 3:30 pm
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Today Mom got a call from Amy, who has been our cat sitter for many years. A few months ago a friend of Mom's asked for a recommendation for a pet sitter, and Mom was happy to recommend Amy. Amy went to visit the friend yesterday ahead of their trip, and from her learned that one of our family had made their journey to the Bridge.
How could Mom have forgotten to call Amy and tell her about my journey?! Amy is a special friend to all of us!
Anyway, Mom told Amy all about my lymphoma, and my chemotherapy, and the sad decision that Mom and Dad made that it was time to let me go. And they cried together a little bit, and then laughed together as they remembered my funny habits and sweet personality.
The humans haven't taken a trip away for quite a while, first because of my illness and then because Dad lost his job, but they may go away next year for a week. And of course Amy will come to take care of my sibs. I'll be sure to be there in spirit!
August 12th 2011 6:32 am
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The upgrade snafus coincided with my birthday, and all my thank-you pawmails didn't get delivered! So I want to thank everybody in my diary.
Thank you, Big Harry and your whole family for my lovely forever diamond (really, a girl's best friend!) and Finney, Lacey and Angel Alex for the forever star. And I got some wonderful birthday pressies from my special friend Minnie (wasn't the angel food cake at the birthday party delicious?), from Gump and Nadia, from Casey, Grace, Leo and Frankie, from Natalie the NatCat and her sweet siblings Orange Ruffy, Bella and Smokie-Boo, and from my angel friends Rebby and Serena Honey Girl.
We partied up a storm at the Bridge, and sprinkled angel dust over all our Catster and Dogster friends and their humans.
And I want Mom to know that I noticed the little catnip pillow she put on the wooden box on the mantel that has my name on it. I sprinkled some angel dust on that, too, so you can let the other cats play with it now, Mom.
April 24th 2011 2:30 pm
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Today I watched from the Bridge while Mom gathered up all my medicines and medical equipment. The bag of Ringer's solution and needles, the Tapazol syringes for my hyperthyroidism, the vial of liquid Pepcid, the prednisone, the opened can of A/D, the food syringes. She saved the appetite stimulants and anti-nausea tablets, in case one of my sibs might need those one day, but all the rest she put into a bag and into the trash, and tears fell from her eyes as she did it.
Then she found my favorite catnip hedgehog toy, and my dish with my name on it, and my collar that I never wore. And some more tears fell down, but those she put into a little basket. When my ashes come back in a wooden box, she will put these things with them and bury the box in the backyard, near where my brofur Patch was buried.
The medicines made her feel sad, but the toy and the dish made her remember the good days. Today was a beautiful day with lots of sun puddles, and she remembered how I enjoyed a good nap in the sun, on my back with my little white feet in the air. Until I got sick, I was a very happy, contented and well-loved cat. I hope she will remember that more than the medical stuff.
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