Another Sad Post And The End Of An Era
Yet again I find myself in the same spot I was in 8 months ago when I had put my cat Stimpson to sleep. Now its time to say goodbye to Clea my cat of 19 1/2 years. She became very ill at the end of July and has been in and out of the hospital ever since. My fiancee and I have visited practically every specialist in San Diego and have done everything in our power to save her but her kidneys have given out and now we are left with no choice but to let her go.
Clea will certainly be the most difficult animal to lose because she marks the end of an era that started over two and a half decades ago. Clea is my last cat and I havent been without an animal in my life for the last 26 years and Im not sure what life is going be like without one. For the pet owners out there you know our animals are special to us and are part of the family. My fiancee and I never had children so our whole life has been about these cats.
Just like Stimpson Clea was also left on my doorstep. In 1995 my cousin was vagabonding across the US when one day, out of the blue, he just shows up at my place in Florida with these 2 little kittens. He said he picked them up off the freeway somewhere between PA and FL and they had been living in the car for the last 5 days. They looked horrible and were malnourished so my fiancee and I cleaned them up and fed them. We figured my cousin would take the cats when he left but a few days later my cousin says ” Hey Im headed out to the store you want anything?” and he never came back, leaving us with these two cats and we have had them ever since. Her brother was far less fortunate as he passed in 2006 at 11 years old from lung cancer so Clea lived a full life
Clea will also be difficult on my fiancee as those two were soul mates and literally adjoined at the hip. They were never far apart from one another and this will be tough on her. At one time we had 6 cats and Clea was the only girl of the group so they took a liking to each other. Clea, of course was a true female, she loved the bathroom. Cats are territorial and for some reason since she was a kitten she loved to sit on the toilet seat, that was her spot. And us being animals lovers like so many of you we just stopped using that bathroom for anything because it belonged to her.
This will be tough on me as well. Since I work from home I have always shared my day with animals and now that will be gone so life will be different . 26 years is over 1/2 of my life. I was just a young obnoxious kid wearing flannel shirts listening to Nirvana tapes when I got Clea. She was always there right with me through all the god and bad and I will miss her a lot. We were very lucky to have Clea for so long and she lived a great life. Because this will take place over the weekend I should be at work Monday, besides work is my therapy so it will be good to do what I know.
Clea 1995-2014
Doug