I'm A Guardian Angel

I'm a guardian angel to ROCKY! This is my very first assignment as a guardian angel cat and I'm hoping I can do a good job and be up to this very important task. I'll be sending angel dust ~ in abundance here at the Bridge ~ to my guardee and purrrrrrrrring for him each and every day.

COTW (Cat of the Week) April 9-April?

Wooooo hooooooo! What can I say? The special honor of being chosen Cat of the Week has been given to ME! Mommy is so proud and I'm rolling in catnip here at the Bridge. Thanks so much to all my dear friends who've given stars, gifts and rosies and for all the congratulatory pmails I've received. It really means a lot to me to know that I'm loved, even after the separation of death came between me and my beloved Mommy.

A Thanksgiving Tag Game/Thankful for Catster Friends

This is what my dear friend(s) Pixel, Mocha and Popka had to say:

Ohmyohmyohmy, my new little brofurr, Mocha Latte, tagged me for a holiday game! I must name 5 things I am thankful for and tag 5 kitties and say something nice about them.

That's easy!!!

Let's see . . .

1. Well first, I'm thankful for my new little brofurr, Mocha Latte!!! (Too bad I can't tag him, but he tagged me!)
2. I'm very grateful for Albert, Administrator of the Rainbow Bridge Kitties Group, for being there so consistently and so helpfully to purr for and help kitties at the gate of the Rainbow Bridge. Albert is much on my mind, tonight.
3. I'm grateful for my life and that I'm healthy. No kidding, everykitty; tonight that seems like a great blessing to me.
4. I'm awfully thankful for my Furever At Home family: my mama, and my brother MacIntosh. Also my grandma, whom I will be living with someday soon, and my elder brother at the Bridge, Popka.
5. I'm so-much-more-than-you'll-ever-know grateful, deeply thankful for all my Catster Furriends.

I'm counting my blessings tonight with tears, smiles, and deepest prayers of gratitude.

[OK, Mocha Latte, it's just REALLY, REALLY Too Bad I can't Tag You ~ We'd have a Fine Game of Chase!!!]

I tag:

1. Scootie Patootie, because she was the first kitty to make me feel so welcome on Catster, and because I love her.
2. Chai, for p-mailing comforting words to mama yesterday when she had the "stomach flu" and had to completely miss Thanksgiving.
3. Albert, because of so many, many, many welcomes and pawties and fun at the Rainbow Bridge.
4. Paula, because she and her elder brofurr, Basil, have been so kind so many, many times, and are dear furriends.
5. Phineas, another awfully cute kitty who knows how to get what he wants, for sure!!


And here's MY "thankful" post:

1. I'm thankful for the 17 years I spent on earth with my Mommy and Daddy.

2. I'm thankful for the many, many wonderful friends I've found on Catster, and particularly in RBKs group.

3. I'm thankful for my earth brother(and namesake), Albie, who arrived 17 days after my coming to the Bridge. His is a miraculous story!

4. I'm thankful for my beautiful wife and furrrrrrr-ever mate at the Bridge, Squirty.

I'm tagging SPARKY (who has a wonderfully supportive family giving generously of time and talent), GINGER (who hosts magnificant baking and slumpurr parties), PINKIE (an all-around good guy with another kind and supportive family), MIPO (whose Mom gives reiki healing long distance and welcomes kitties to our group with rosies, stars and good wishes) and GIZMO (whose Mommy is a talented formal attire, Halloween costume maker and who's very loving and supportive to newcomers and kitties sick and in need) 'cause they're my 5 male BFFs at the Bridge. And POPKA, who has been so kind and supportive to me and all the newcomers to our group.

I'm tagging MANYA (her parties are all the rage at the Bridge), TC (wing shop supervisor), ANGEL (who has a support group and website for Bridge pets)and TABBY (another talented wingmaker and formal attire maker and great wedding planner) in my 4 female BFFs at the Bridge.

Part of my Memorial Page

I wanted to post part of my memorial page in my diary 'cause it expresses precisely how Mom felt about ME:

When the day came for Albert to break my heart, I told myself
this: For more than 17 years I have been able to give a
living thing I love the most the most perfect life possible for a cat
to have. It is something that, with all my heart and will, I
could not do for my children, whose growing up and
discovery of life was beyond all my longing to keep them
happy. I told myself that for more than 17 years, all of
Albert's needs of love and care and comfort were perfectly
filled by me. There will always be beloved ones of
the Company for me to give and take from, but I know how
even that Company has a hierarchy in which some stand
higher for us than others. It is so. For me there will
never be another cat like Albert. With him, I came
nearer than I have ever been, or ever shall be, to bridging the gulf
which divides us from the so-called "dumb animals.
" Many of his happiest hours were spent in my
company, and many of my happiest hours were spent in his
company, for there was communion between us. He
tried, as I did, to bridge the gulf; and I do not think I
deceive myself if I say there were times when we came very near
to it.


Wait for me, my beloved, at the Rainbow Bridge until it is my time
to take you home one last time. Enjoy your time there
with your many friends, eating and playing and rolling
in catnip by the milky stream. But when you see me
coming for you, please run into my open arms and I will
hold you again and you will be young and beautiful and
strong and healthy, and there will be no more tears of
longing and sadness for me for we will be together again at last.

I've Been Tagged!

There's a very neat game going on where some cat tags you and you are supposed to write 7 little-known (or in some cases WELL known!) things about yourself and then tag 7 other cats and they will write in their diaries and tag 7 more cats. Apparently, we can get to know each other better and have a lot of fun at the same time!



1. I used to belong to some people who lived across the street from my Mom. I went to her back fence several times to visit, and while she thought I was very cute, she didn't take me in at first because (a) I belonged to someone else (b) she already had LOTS of cats.

2. My Daddy tricked Mom and my human sister into taking me in. After he laid down the law: WE ALREADY HAVE ENOUGH CATS! He saw me out on the front porch in the middle of a thunderstorm and his heart went out to me. He told my human sister to get the mail. She saw me and the rest is history.

3. I was terrified of men (except for Daddy...and I started to like him after I'd been in the house for about 5 years) and BROOMS for the remainder of my life. Mommy thought some man had beat me with a broom.

4. I hated the 4th of July. We lived only one block from the park where the fireworks were set off every year and Mommy and Daddy always had a cookout and invited friends over to watch. Mommy had to give me 1/2 a Valium and put me safely in her room with the door locked while the company was there and all the noise was going on.

5. I had all my teeth removed because I had bad gingivitis. Mommy thought I'd never be able to eat my kibble again, but I surprised her!

6. I had cancer and had one of my eyes surgically removed by the head of veterinary opthamology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine.

7. I am madly in love with the beautiful Squirty from the great state of Texas.



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My Tail of Devotion for Albert (1985-2002)

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