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Coloration: Black and White
Likes: He liked to sleep in my arms at night when he was older. As a kitten, he liked to fish in the fish tank.
Pet-Peeves: Being closed out of rooms, his sibling "Lil' One".
Favorite Toy: He liked to swat the dog when she walked by.
Favorite Nap Spot: In a sunbeam or on my bed.
Favorite Food: Shrimp
Skills: He recovered from a diabetic coma, learned how to walk again, and nailed a bird in the air that we chased from our wood stove!
Dwells:
indoors and outdoors
Arrival Story: His mother and father were our cats, and he was the third of a litter of four. His mother did not lick him to remove the birth sac when he was born (she was exhausted) so I did it with a warm washcloth.
Bio: Snipper was a special cat. He used up several lives; his rocky start in life, eating a black widow spider and surviving (but he was very sick for a while), being shut in an abandoned car for five days before I found him, recovering from a diabetic coma and walking despite paralysis from diabetic neuropathry. I thought he was invincable, but he lost his last life in a house fire in December 2003.
*Snipper was Cat Of The Day on Catster on August 9, 20071!*
Forums Motto: Bring on those spiders!
The Groups I'm In: ♥ I miss you darling! ♥, ♥A TEAM♥, =^..^=Angel Cats=^..^=, In Memoriam, Let's Help Teal'C and his Tennessee Crew, Losing A Beloved Pet, Navin and Buds, Pawprints on Our Hearts, Rainbow Bridge Kitties, Rowdy Naughty Bawdy Cats and Dogs, Special Needs Cats, ^*^Over The Rainbow^*^, ^^^Angels from above^^^
The Last Forum I Posted In: More New Orleans Kitties - New to CATSTER
Snuggle: http://www.gifs.net/Animation11/Animals/Cats/2_cats.gif
I've been tagged by Suki, and I get to tell my five most important Christmas wishes. Then I get to tag five other kitties, and they get to play also.
OK, here they are:
1. I always want to be as happy as I am now, with my Lady Sweetwhiskers Princess, my bride of just over one year.
2. I want all pawrents of all Furangels to know that we really are waiting fur them to join us up here, and it really is a "better place".
3. I want humane treatment fur the animals on Earth.
4. I want humans to realize that the Earth is their home, and if they destroy it, they condemn themselves and all other life to extinction.
5. I want my Earth Brofurs and Sistfurs to live long, happy and healthy lives with Mom.
Whoo Hoo, Meow Yeowl,
Today I was Cat of The Day. Mom had called Catster about a problem with getting zealies with Paypal. Not only did Catster take care of the problem, but they really listened when Mom told them how invaluable they had been in helping her deal with my death in the house fire. She related how I was alive again for her on Catster, particularly on Hammock Talk, and now when she thinks of me, it is with smiles rather than tears. Catster has been better for Mom than any therapist or pills, and she thanks Catster, Kassie and Autumn (and their humans) from the bottom of her heart. I thank Princess from my whole heart fur being my Sweetwhiskers Lady Snugglebum, and making my afterlife complete.
Headbonks and hair-tugs to Mom,
Snipper
P S And I also thank my adopted son Brutus and adopted daughter Bunny, and all my furtastic HT furiends!
Writing a letter to my pet is something that I have actually done. I used it as a healing tool after the tragic and untimely deaths of three of my cats in a house fire in december of 2003. This letter was written to the cat I was closest to, my Snipper. Be advised that it contains some raw, heartfelt emotions. Since I wrote this, I have discovered Catster and the wonderful animals and people associated with it, and my grief has been somewhat assuaged. Explanations of what Snipper knew, but a reader wouldn't, are in parentheses. Here it is straight from my journal:
New Year's day 2004
To My Snipper - my "Boy-Boy", my special-needs kitty. I miss you most of all. You were so close to me that I called you Velcro Kitty. You would lick me until I was covered with kitty spit. I was amazed that your tongue didn't get tired. You were so devoted to me that you waited for me to get home from work every night. I'd see you in the window, or if the blinds were down, you would be waiting on the back of the couch nearest the door. How can I stand coming home to a house without you?
When you were inside your mother Mocho (we had her before Snipper was born) I would place my hand on her side and feel the movement of you and your yet-to-be-born sisters. When you were born your mom was too tired to lick the birth sac off of you, so I did it with a wet, warm cloth and stimulated you to breathe. How I wish I had been there at the end, when you were choking to death (smoke aspxyiation). I nearly came home early from work that fateful day, because I had been sleepless the night before, and I was soooo tired. But at least I got to hold you in my arms all night, listening to your unique three-toned purr (started low, then higher, ending with a whistle
).
You faced so many challenges in your life that you overcame - a black widow spider that you ate (which nearly killed Snipper), being locked in a junked car without food or water for several days, and finally developing diabetes and recovering from a diabetic coma. I really thought you were indestructable.
That was my hubris. You were taken away from me in an accidental house fire caused by an electrical malfunction in a "power strip". Ironic, since I work for the local power company!
But today is the beginning of a new year- one I will have to face without you. I can't believe that you will no longer be standing on the couch behind me, and grabbing a mouthful of hair to tug. I have never heard of another cat that did that, and I loved it. And other times you would sit on the arm of the sofa, and tap me with your paw to remind me of your presence- as if I could forget. Please tap me again tonight as I am sleeping, and let me know that you are waiting on the Other Side. I am so empty without you. I don't know how I can go on without you.
I have to believe that you have gone to the Rainbow Bridge, and that there you are healthy and happy. No more insulin shots, no more tooth loss from diabetes.
I want to believe that you will be waiting for me when it's my turn to go to the Other Side, because with you in my arms, I won't be scared.
Until then,
Your loving human Carolyn
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