Day 18 - Month of Gratitude

I am not really an animal person - ask anyone who knows me!  But we have had 4 cats over the years - and I was very fond of 3 of them!  The one shown here is Amado - when Harry taught at the MTC, the elders took in a stray kitten.  When they left, we inherited the cat!  

But he was a great cat - and we loved him.  He disappeared once - and we miraculously got him back.  And then he disappeared again - and we didn't get him back.  We'd had him for 8 years or so, and we truly missed him.

While we still had Amado, Harry got it in his head that Amado needed a playmate - so we went to the Pound and got a kitten.  His name was Baby Kitty - I don't think that was his real name - but that's what I always called him.

He was not beloved at all.  He used the wooden bowl's newspapers as a cat box.  He was not lovable.  We had him for a few years - and we were going away, so we took him over to Alice and Dale's.  Alice said, well, he might run away.  I said no such luck - I'd love to have him run away, but I'm sure he won't.

But you know, he did.  He's probably roaming through the fields of Riverton even now!

 

We then had a wonderful cat we named Elizabeth - the above is not a photo of her - we apparently don't have a photo of her - but we loved Elizabeth - I could tell lots of stories about her.  She died of cat leukemia.  We spent days supporting her in her last efforts to survive.  Bonny and Harry were 6 and 4.  When she died, we had a little funeral and talked about heaven.  In her prayer that night, Bonny said, "And please bless Elizabeth that she will be resurrected tomorrow!"

The above is Cosmo the beloved.  Someone abandoned him on our street.  He was a young kitten.  The lady said, "I think this cat is from your street."  Then she left him.  The kids wanted to keep him - I resisted.  Then Harry F. said, "If you let us keep her, I promise to get my Eagle."  

I agreed.  And he got his Eagle!

 

This looks like a young Cosmo - the wedding presents belonged to Bonny and Bruce.

I am grateful for the cats in our life.  But I am content not to have one now!