Our ‘Little Kitty’ passed 2 days ago, almost 17
*Thank you to everyone for your kind, warm words, condolences, and reading Little Kitty’s story .. in part or entirety, I really tried to not make it so long. You are all so very kind. 💜💚.*
Our oldest family member, Little Kitty, crossed the rainbow bridge Friday at 11 AM.
So many sad posts here lately, it is so heart-wrenching- I’m sorry for the long post..
(I have low vision, so there might be a lot of mishaps in this post. I apologize in advance)
She was left on our doorstep in a cardboard box in 2009, right before my youngest daughter started kindergarten. Inside the box was a beautiful, very young white and light orange kitten, with a brand new white face cloth and hand towel purchased from Walmart. I cried, the kitten was not crying. She just looked up at us with her big blue innocent eyes.
We took her into the vet, got her all fixed up and started bottle feeding her. I was still crying, so my husband took over and bottle fed her until I could control myself.
. I let her bottle feed until she felt comfortable enough to transition to formula in a saucer.
We had four other cats at the time so this was number five. All of our other cats were also rescues.
Little kitty live very well with everyone and became part of the family. The only difference was that as she got older, she could not tolerate my blind Jellybean, who would chase her in fun. She became quite anxious, like having an anxiety disorder. Regardless of the medication, she only wanted to be by herself, no cats around her. I think she developed sort of a cat form of PTSD.
We gave her my daughter’s bedroom and then she became my daughter’s cat. Everything was set up for her in there, but she could come out if she wanted to sometimes she did, but she was happy in the ‘pink room’.
When my daughter went off to college, she could not take little kitty with her so I took over and became her Mommy, and spent countless hours in that pink room watching bird TV on YouTube with her Spoiling her, brushing her, letting her pop bubble wrap - everything that she like to do and sending pictures to my daughter to make sure she saw her little kitty being treated well. little kitty was living the good life. Peace and security, on her terms
When my daughter was a junior in college. She got a private dorm room, and could not bare leaving little kitty behind, visits were not enough. So against all the rules of the University, she snuck little kitty in with her boyfriend’s help. Luckily, little kitty was a quiet cat, never made loud noises, never wanted for anything but to live her life laying in the sun, being with my daughter and just be herself
I was very happy for little kitty because she finally got to relax and enjoy the things that she couldn’t enjoy at our house .. the freedom to move around, not worrying about being harassed by other cats
Luckily, no one was the wiser, and the pictures that my daughter sent me were so precious little kitty was having a blast laying on the keyboard of the computer, laying on the windowsill catching sun watching TV, regardless of the program sleeping in her favorite boxes all the things that cat should be allowed to do on their own terms.
In my daughter senior year at the university she moved into an apartment off campus with some friends who also had cats kittens ( in this case the apartment manager allowed pets with a deposit, especially cats.) She was cool about it so little kitty was able to really thrive in this new environment.
My daughter bought her a cat stroller of all things, and took her out for walks with her boyfriend. He was so good with her too little kitty really loved him a lot.
She loved to lay on the balcony in the sun under the Supervision of my daughter of course, little kitty was not interested in venturing anywhere.
Sometimes little kitty would wander out into the living room and just scout around, even in the kitchen. She was found in another bedroom with one of the other cats at one time which really shocked me, I was so proud of her and my daughter and so happy for her that she could finally feel free to relax And just be herself. What a blessing, I was filled with, I guess you would say, a mother’s joy,
Unfortunately, she recently went from stage 1 kidney disease to stage 4 very quickly. It happened in a matter of weeks. There was a rapid decline on her weight. She wanted to drink only from the bathtub faucet, and she was becoming more lethargic.
This is my daughter‘s first experience in helping a beloved friend cross the rainbow bridge. My daughter is 21 almost 22 little kitty would’ve been 17 in a couple of months. They grew through all of her school years together.
This is my daughter‘s first lifetime pet and the pain is real. I felt so horribly awful for her. It tore my heart. Even though my daughter brought little kitty to the vet on a regular basis and did all the things she was supposed to do, there is nothing you can do when kidney disease sets in and starts its course, especially when it escalates at that rapid pace as it did so quickly.
I was so happy to at least see little kitty laying on the bed watching YouTube TV for cats, with my daughter and her boyfriend two nights before she passed away. It was one thing she thoroughly enjoyed, and she fought to the very end
The last photo is little kitty on my daughter‘s bed watching TV two nights before she passed away
So, our beautiful LittleKiitty, rest easy in your new place with space that belongs to you, enjoying your new freedom again without pain. We are missing you and will always miss you. You are with Sammy Cocoa and Shimi, who will take care of you and love you. 💜😿💚😢