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Leave a treat for Sister Mary Cat
Nicknames:
Mary, Mare
Kitty Complexion:
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Birthday:
January 1st 1991
Coloration:
Gray and White
Likes:
The great outdoors, hunting, gazing out the window, her kittyhaus, the attic, clean litter boxes
Pet-Peeves:
House guests, dogs visiting, the doorbell, knocks on the door
Favorite Toy:
Cosmic catnip spread on scratching post; caught many rodents over the years
Favorite Nap Spot:
On freshly laundered all white towels placed on Mom's lap. Or on any recently worn clothes.
Favorite Food:
Cheese, cereal milk, Fancy Feast
Skills:
Surviving 3 months away from home
Dwells:
indoors and outdoors
Arrival Story:
Mary arrived in January 1993 by taking up residence on a shelf in my parents' garage in Cleveland during a snowstorm. She was thin, dirty (it was thought she was an all gray cat!), and "big, mean, old, and ugly" according to my cat-loving Dad (this would all be disproved!) After several days of my brother bringing her food and towels and sitting with her in the front seat of the car while running the heat, she soon was revealed to be a beautiful sweet white and gray cat. She moved into the house, was dewormed and spayed, and ruled the roost for 15 years!
She went missing on Sunday March 25, 2003, and after trying in vain to find her through canvassing the neighborhood, placing ads in the paper and online, we had to admit she probably wasn't coming back . Lo and behold, she came walking back into the yard exactly three months later on Sunday June 25, skinny and hungry but not much worse for the wear. Where she spent that sabbatical, we don't know (was she hurt, trapped, kittynapped, how did she find her way out or back?). Mary has always been a very scrappy, resourceful kitty who really lived her 9 lives.
She had a pink nose, spotted paw pads and markings that looked like continental drift (like her splotches of color were once one land mass).
She was always up for play, even at 17 years old, she was spry.
Bio:
Mary passed over the rainbow bridge on Feb. 8th, 2008. We will miss her greatly, she was an amazing cat. She was regal, fearless, loved her routine, and held no grudges. She stood up to neighborhood dogs, or played with them if she liked them, like Rocky the boxer who lived next door, whom she'd paw at through the fence. She loved to assist in gardening, and scratch her claws on the tree in the yard. In old age she became much more vocal when wanting breakfast, dinner, to go out, or to go up to bed! She said hi when you entered the room. Her nightly ritual was to sit on my Mom's lap as she read (something she began only after my Dad died, it was like she knew that was the right thing to do), and then at the appropriate time indicate to my Mom that they must go up to bed. If my Mom did not comply, Mary would go up and wait for her, and if too much time passed, would come down and meow her discontent at this shift in routine. She would take over most of the bed with her towels and toys.
She requested fresh water from the bathroom sink (as well as multiple water bowls well placed around the house), food on the table not the floor, newly made up nap spots on every bed to follow the sun from room to room, fans appropriately placed for cool air, access and egress from the house to do her early morning and late evening hunting, time on the back deck and porch, and appropriation of any cardboard boxes that entered the house. And she deserved it all, because she was an incredible girl. She was buried in one of her favorite clean white towels, between two forsythia bushes, under a bed of ivy, along with some plants that may bloom one day, in her beloved back yard, not far from her older brother kitty Ajax.
Forums Motto:
Wild at Heart
I've Been On Catster Since:
| February 11th 2008 |
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More than 4 years! |
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Catster Id:
716115
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