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February 10,2013

 

My name is Mr. Kitty and my wonderful Mommy took me into her home and, boy-o-boy, what a home it is! I get food twice a day and loads of yummy treats, a big bowl of clean water, I have a clean litter box, two cozy baskets to sleep in…. plus lots of cozy spots to curl into whenever I feel like it and can always dash into the closet whenever a scary moment comes, like when the maintenance guy comes in or some unknown person with a funny smell… not the Mommy smell that I know so well… or when I hear some loud banging noises then I can quickly scamper and hide right into the closet. Other great places to hide or snuggle in are the cupboards under the kitchen sink, a real cozy place, and the cupboard in the kitchen, that is the warmest and coziest spot to hide and it smells so nice from all my Mommy’s cleaning things. Oh… I forgot… I can always sleep on my Mommy’s bed… I love that and sometimes I can hide under her blankets. In my other place I couldn’t sleep on the bed, nope, I was always put into the closet or on, when I was free to do what I wanted, on the edge of the windowsill… thinking what it would be like outside. In my old home there was no sun at all…. so when I lived in my new home… where I never thought of going outside because I had such a good Mommy, the sun always shone and I really had to get used to it. But now I’ve lived with my Mommy for so long that I have really gotten used to the sun and really dig it. Oh yes, in my old home I was fed only when the man remembered to feed me. My old home was not fun at all…. no it was very messy and confusing and there was lots of yelling and screaming and crying… when I heard all those sad noises… then I REALLY raced into the closet, my one place of safety.

       If you really want to know about me… then you ought to read my Mommy’s story called, ‘My Real True Love.’ There you can find out more about me but in my blog I don’t want to talk about my bad kitten-hood…. it was yuck.

       Living now with wonderful Mommy is the best thing that ever happened to me… even though I had to get used to everything and I had to get used to other people being there and I also had to get used to different dogs.    Sometimes I cannot tell who are the dogs and who are the people! So let me begin telling you about this funny little person who gave me a severe shock and I almost had a real nervous breakdown.

       Little Person:

I call her the little person because she’s little but bigger then me… but my Mommy calls her the little tornado because she runs all over the apartment and Mommy’s mind get a little kukuk but my Mommy, and I honestly don’t get this, loves and adores the little goofy person. Little person didn’t exactly mess up the apartment… just a bit…. she was no bulldozer or my Mommy would have had a fit.

       I don’t know who she was, where she came, or anything but I knew she was a little girl because she wore dresses… actually she changed all the time into dress ups clothes or into her own clothes. She had a very high, squeaky, really loud voice and she would often pout and/or cry when she didn’t get her way but that didn’t happen too much. She would run back and forth a lot and jump on my Mommy’s bed, which really drove my Mommy crazy.

My Mommy was firm with her, in a very gentle way, about this or that but not about what was going to happen to me. I simply ran into the closet whenever the little person got wild but I thought, ‘Why doesn’t my Mommy just get some sense and put the little person outside?!’ And a few times when I ran into the closet… little person would run right into the closet too and I wanted to scream, ‘Get her out of here… this is my territory…. out, out, out!!!!’ But all that my Mommy said in her sweet voice was, ‘Oh, honey, don’t do that…. you’re scaring Mr. Kitty.’ Yeah… honey my foot, I thought.

       Once little person saw all my Mommy’s pretty scarves and wanted to play with some of with the prettiest scarves. So, my Mommy of course let her. The little person said that the scarf was the boat and the carpet was the water and she put all the angels, Mommy’s porcelain angels, and Mommy’s other pretty knick knacks in the pink dolly bed and put the pink dolly bed, with all the little elf’s and angels and nick knacks, on the scarf, which was supposed to be the boat or the raft or whatever, and told me and my Mommy that we had to jump on the rocking chair and then onto the scarf so that we wouldn’t get wet. Crazy idea of little person…. I simply scampered into the closet…. my place of pure safety and I heard my Mommy say, ‘No, sweetie-pie, I don’t mind getting wet and no jumping on my scarf please. What about a little snack, honey?’ And squeaky would say, ‘Yes… OK.’ But little person never ate much but she loved hearing my Mommy’s wonderful stories about the food she was eating. Then my Mommy said, ‘OK honey, now we’re going to watch a nice little movie… but I have to put these things away and you can do whatever you’d like.’ Then they’d watch the little movie and finally the little person was quiet, sitting on my Mommy’s lap. Then, and only then, I decided that it was safe for me to get out of the closet and finally smell some fresh air but, man o man, did little person look bizarre. She was all dressed up in her dress up clothes, a crown on her had with he a big pink stone in the middle, in one hand she was holding my fancy play feather and in the other hand she was holding a pink something that looked like a doll. My Mommy was so amazingly gaga crazy about this little noisy person and I though my Mommy was not going to love me anymore. So I jumped on my Mommy’s lap and realized that my Mommy still loved me as much as she loved that odd little person. Unfortunately, I couldn’t sit on my Mommy’s lap for too long…. oh no…. that little person started looking at me and immediately wanted to pet me, and because I was so not sure about her, I scrammed for the kitchen which is very far from little person. I was still very scared of her even though my Mommy was hugging and kissing her all the time. The movie was on the computer… and the computer is also in the closet… unfortunately… so I couldn’t very well hide in the closet and be so close to her…that little pink and blonde person… even though my Mommy was right there. I need to protect myself from scary things… like the little person. My Mommy loves me, I know that, but when that little person is around then she seems to forget me a little bit.

       After the movie the little person got really goofy and my Mommy ran the bath for little person. Then the little person got in the bath and FINALLY it’s was a little quieter and my Mommy fed me my dinner but sometimes I have to yowl loudly so she doesn’t forget to feed me anything like my treats. After the bath the little person got even more goofy and they sit down for dinner and I would really like to snuggle in my basket, which is right under the table, but little person kept on kicking the basket with her feet and it got very scary for me to go into my basket…. so… I couldn’t go into that basket…. that was definitely a no-no… so…. I had to go into the bigger basket… but I really didn’t know what to do… boy… I really, really don’t like having this little person around… she messes up my whole routine. The big basket, for me to snuggle in, is OK but I lost some weight, which I know the vet will be pleased about but my Mommy worries about me getting to skinny. I used to be a big boy with a big tummy but not anymore.

       After dinner and dessert the little person often, she has been to my Mommy’s apartment a lot of times, gets very…. very goofy and so wild that she gets my Mommy very kuku crazy. By now I am pretty used to this mess, that little person creates all the time, so I don’t hide in the closet so much but I have to be super careful that I don’t get too close to the little person…. she darts and dashes around a lot and is very, very boisterous. My Mommy looks pretty worn out…. but man oh man…. does my Mommy love this little, squeaky person a lot…. I really don’t get this.

       When the little person brushes her teeth before going to bed…. boy is that something to watch…. the whole bathroom is wet because little person just loves to look at herself in the mirror and splash water everywhere. So… when the little person has a sleepover… my Mommy gets all these blankets and sleeping bag out and gets really goofy too because little person is jumping wildly, I mean WILDLY, crazy. Then the little person gets into her red and white sleeping bag and my Mommy reads her a story or several stories. Then little person and my Mommy lie down together and FINALLY little person goes to sleep. I like this part because I can lie down with my Mommy on her side… far away from that noisy little person. I feel safe with my Mommy but I won’t go to the little person…. she might very suddenly grab or bite me…. who knows. Then my Mommy gets up when little person is asleep and puts things away and gets into her own bed and falls right to sleep. And me?

       Well, first I have to say this, I am so happy and relieved that everything is quiet and normal again…. well sort of normal but at least quiet… the little person is there too but she’s really quiet and doesn’t move an inch…. goody-goody…. now I can finally investigate but first I jump onto my Mommy’s bed and curl up and have a good catnap. At about three o’clock, the next the morning, I get up and have a real good sniff at the little person, she’s still sound asleep… I mean deep in sleep, and I try to find out who this little person really is and what she is and why does my Mommy love her so much even though she is a giant handful.

       Well, I quietly creep… My Mommy, who is doing all the typing for my blog, is getting very tired, her back’s killing her and she has to get into the bath. So, bye guys…. gotta go.

 

February 18

       Hi, here I am.

       So where did I leave off? Oh yes, the little person. So, at three o’clock in the morning I’d jump off from my Mommy’s cozy bed and get my investigation nose out and began the whole sniffing, smelling, and checking-her-out process. First I sniffed around the sleeping bag just to make sure she wasn’t going to pounce on me in that alarmingly scary way of hers. Then I very, very slowly, I mean really S-L-O-W-L-Y, began to climb on her stomach, pretty brave of me, huh… after all she was not moving an inch and my Mommy was right next to her to save me from any of her jerky movements and I also thought ‘Why not?’ Nothing happened, nothing at all… she didn’t move. Then I quickly jumped away from her because I felt a slight jerky movement coming from her legs and suddenly she turned around to lie down on the other side and went back to sleep. Boy, I almost had a real heart attack there but cats are VERY good at dashing off during any alarming moments. Then suddenly she shot up into a sitting position and looked at me…. she never said ‘Hello’ or anything like that. And what did I do? I made a real fast split to the kitchen cupboard where all the cleaning stuff was…. way in the back where it’s nice, cozy and, dark and nowhere no can find me except for my Mommy. I have exceptionally good ears to hear with… so I heard the little person go right into my Mommy’s bed and say, ‘Mr. Kitty woke me up.’

Oh gotta go.. my Mommy has to take a bath now and go to bed early and get up early tomorrow…. So bye guys, I’ll tell you the rest about little person next time.

 

February 24,

       Hi boys and girls, I’m here again.

       So… where did I leave off? Oh right, little person crawling into to my Mommy’s bed in the morning of the next day and saying in her high squeaky voice, ‘Mr. Kitty woke me up!’ But she was all smiles and tremendously giggly when she got into my Mommy’s bed and started jabbering and prattling in that tiny, but loud, twittery voice of hers. After a while my Mommy got up and dressed herself, made tea and then, oh happy, happy day, she fed me my breakfast…. FINALLY! Then little person got up from the bed and dashed to her clothes that were waiting for her to be put on and ran to get her little chair and put it in the sunny kitchen and sit herself down to enjoy the warm light on her face. Soon my Mommy had made little person’s breakfast and laid it on a little yellow table AND told little person to sit and eat and drink her milk while she, my best Mommy, told little person the food story, which little person loved listening to. Then my Mommy brushed little person’s long, static, blond hair and soon it was time for little person to leave and my Mommy left too but she came right back without little person. But after that, guess what I did? It was QUIET…. quiet at LAST and I didn’t have to hide anymore or be careful and cautious of that thing jumping on me! I just sprawled on the carpet and basked my fur, which really needed the warm sun as it was turning into stressed-out fur, and my kitty mind, which was filled with nothing but kitty anxiety, and listened to the beautiful music that Mommy had on and listened to my Mommy’s footsteps pitter n’ patter around the house. It was her washing the clothes and watering the plants day…. I know all her days so well…. a cat learns that.

       I’d like to say that little person never returned but she always came back and after a while I did finally learn that she was not so goofy after all… that she could be quiet and pretty civilized. But one day, ohmanohnanohman, did I get a big, I mean B-I-G, surprise. I had absolutely no idea what was happening to the apartment, to my Mommy, or to me! I just scrammed for the nearest security closet and stayed there…. made myself comfortable right there and never, ever left until my Mommy fed me my dinner. And this B-I-G thing came from the little person. Boy, I thought, how can such a tiny one make such a racket AND my Mommy just said, ‘Oh that’s wonderful honey… you have such a great voice.’ Boy o boy, well I didn’t think so… not at all. I thought, ‘How can my wonderful Mommy think like this…. I mean golly… she absolutely loathes such horrible loud noises…. she hates down town noises and peoples noises????’ So you want to know what little person did? She grabbed my little play stick with the ribbon on it, and said that it was her microphone AND she began to sing…. I mean real really loudly AND all my Mommy said were those unbelieving words, ’Oh honey, that’s wonderful… you are really going to be a great singer one day…. yes, your Mommy should put you into a singing class!’ After my Mommy saw me running madly into the closet she said to the little person, ‘Oh honey, I think you scaring Mr. Kitty.’ And do you think this helped sat all? Nope… not one little bit… little person went on with her crazy singing AND then she stopped momentarily and said to my Mommy… very fast so she could go right back to her singing, ‘When I grow up I’m gonna be a singer!’ And my Mommy replied, ‘Oh yes, go right for it, honey, you’ll be the best!’ So little person sang and sang and ran all over the room with my play stick all afternoon! And then she stopped again, only for a second, and yelled to my Mommy, who is hard of hearing, ‘I’ll sing extra loud for you!’ and my Mommy just said, ‘Oh fine, honey, that’s fine.’ Although my Mommy has a hearing aid on her ear, to hear better with, she also turns the volume off or takes it out when the noise from the little person gets too rowdy.

       Oh hey I must tell about the time when the little person got very close to me and she, miraculously, was able to pet me… uuuh…. I didn’t see that one coming because I was having a cat snooze. So… she very quietly, my Mommy had told her to be very quiet, and she gave me a little pet.

       Oh, I’m going to have to continue later…. my Mommy’s back is killing her…. gotta go.

     

    

April 7

       Hi guys and gals… been a while but hope you remember me… Mr. Kitty!

       OK… gotta finish up telling you about the time when Little Person snucked up on me and petted me so gently. Uhhh…. was that a gentle stroke…. little hands gliding over my fur…. nobody has ever touched me so tenderly, except for my Mommy. It was so touchingly gentle, like the softest catnip and fluffy feathers bouncing on my fur, that I couldn’t take it anymore. So… so ever politely and quietly slunked off, retreated, under the tiny table with all the crystal rocks and thought, ‘Wow…. what a gentle little hand Little Person has and you would never have guessed with that loud voice she has! No one in all my kitten-hood, except for my Mommy, has ever petted me so kindly and so mildly…. wow!’ You have to understand that my kitty-hood was really lousy, not even the cat shrink could help me… these unhappy  times dragged  on until the nice maintenance guy found and brought me to a nicer person, a neighbor of my Mommy. I liked it there but the man had another cat named Cleo and, boy, did she not like me but I didn’t care too-hoot. Then my Mommy took me and, well, I didn’t like it at first, being with her, but I got to like living there, with my Mommy. I thought, ‘Man o man, I really hit the jackpot.’ And my life had really become too good to be true and Mommy became my real cat shrink.

 

April 24

Before I tell you about Misty… I’ve got to tell you all about the time there was a BIG crash in my Mommy’s apartment.

       Well, guess who was there too? Yep… Little Person and every time I see her now… I just scram straight into the closet… although my Mommy has explained to me that it was she, my lovely Mommy, who made the BIG crash and the BIG mess. You wanna know what happened? Well, it happened after Little Person had her snack on the tiny wooden table. She went off to play with all my Mommy’s knick-knacks and, well, everything was getting kind of crowded on the floor… Little Person was making a little play party for all the angels and I was sitting, nice and relaxed, in my cozy cubby… my warm and cuddly and cozy spot. Then my Mommy had to walk by the crowded spot, where Little Person was making her play party for the angels, and said to Little Person, ‘Honey… move please…. honey, move!’ Well, do you think Little Person moved? Nope… no sir… no ma’am…. she just didn’t listen. So… Mommy… walked by the anyway and… whoop-se-daisy… came crashing onto the floor, messed up the little play party, that was so lovingly meant for the angels, and fell right into the golden glass pumpkin and, man oh man, did Little Person get a fright! I, thinking the world had come to an end, just scrammed like crazy into the closet and simply decided that it might be best NEVER to come out until it was my dinnertime. I simply made myself comfortable in the closet and tried to calm myself down by thinking of heavenly cat treats and divine crystal dishes of Fancy Feast that was being put in front of me to eat at my desire. Luckily Mommy had some really pretty music playing on her computer and that was a bit calming but oh my, oh my, my nerves had been truly shattered. But, my, my, my, did Little Person give a gigantic sob. Earlier she was having some difficulty with her nose…. it was very snotty and stuffy. Well… with all her crying she got all her snot out and that was good. Poor Little Person never stopped crying until my Mommy got her all nicely settled on the rocking chair, with a bag of chocolate and, a good movie called ‘Puppy Party’ that Little Person could watch so that Mommy, bleeding and all, could clean up the big bloody mess. But before all that cleaning and calming down Little Person, Mommy made sure that Little Person had no cuts, was OK and, kissed all Little Person’s boo-boo’s away. Then Mommy dealt with her messy bleeding mess and when that was done she cleaned the other big glass mess, wiped the dripping blood stains with something that was supposed to help remove the bloody stains but didn’t… but my Mommy got the stains out anyway, she finally changed into cleaner clothes. Oh… and I think that was the end of the little play party for the angels…. for that day at least. Meanwhile Little Person sat on the rocking chair with her bag of chocolates, watching the good movie and…. was happy as a clam in the clean ocean.

       Like I said… I just stayed in the closet until it was time to eat my dinner and when that time finally arrived… I remembered to saunter out of the closet very careful and cautious.

       Later a friend of my Mommy’s came and looked at Mommy’s cut and made sure that it wouldn’t bleed anymore by using coal and then covering the cut up with lots of surgical. Boy… did Little Person like watching and listening to that.

       Now when Little Person comes she always moves when my Mommy says to her, ‘Move, honey, please.’ She still makes play party for the angels but she always moves and always says to my Mommy, ‘Can I help… can I help?’

       So even though my Mommy tells me over and over that it was she was the one who created that bloody mess… I make a split and dash right into the closet or into the bathroom cupboard or into the kitchen-cleaning cupboard, where there is always warmth and safety, whenever I see Little Person. She’d like to pet me but I always do the smart thing, and shoo off quickly.

 

May 3

My Mommy’s going out tonight and, man, is she not happy about it either and me, I’m not happy… I’m gonna miss her.

Misty:

       Ok… so let’s talk about Misty. Every time my Mommy goes to see Little Person in Sausalito… my Mommy stays overnight and comes back the next day and, boy oh boy, I am not thrilled about this because I really miss her a lot, I miss my chicken treats and, I miss my night time snack but am crazy happy when she’s back home. Then I know I’m going to get all my treats, Mommy spoils me but I’m a good boy. OK…. so…. my Mommy has it all arranged who will feed me at night and who will feed me in the morning on the next day. A lady comes to feed me my dinner, her name is Palala. I like her ‘cause she’s quiet and gives me more treats then I really need AND Palala gives me the treats before she gives me my dinner….goody-goody. I know that Palala is a funny name but  that is what my Mommy calls her… Palala. Palala always says, ‘Hi Mr. Kitty. What up?’ Then after feeding me she leaves and I have the whole place to my lonesome self. The next day, early in the morning another lady, her name is Panama… comes in to feed me but, uh-oh, she has this yappy little dog named Misty and, man, I am not happy at all about this… Misty gives me this little alarming yelp and her button of a tail never, for one minute, stops wagging. Her whole expression is telling me that she is so eager and happy to play and frolic with me and she really wants to get to know me. And what do I say to her? I know that I should act happy too but I just get under the big table and begin my loud tiger growl, showing her all my fangs and give her my most dangerous hissing sound, which means in my language, ‘Go away Misty… I don’t want to play!’ Poor Misty gets all shocked looking and backs off and goes to her Mommy and starts barking… she is trying to say to her Mommy, ‘He won’t play with me…. he’s a meany.’ Her Mommy feeds me and she tries to play with me but I have no wish to play but only to eat, eat, eat. I know I shouldn’t be like this but I just feel grumpy….. I just want my Mommy. And what does my Mommy think about all this, when she, from Panama about my silly behavior with Misty? She looks at me and says, ‘Oh… really Mr. Kitty… how could you? Misty is such a sweet little girl and only wants to play… she’s still young but very a true sweet darling and her Mommy feeds you so nicely! Mr Kitty… honestly… you have to stop this… honey.’

       Sometimes Misty and her Mommy come over for a visit when my Mommy’s at home… and I just totally don’t get it… but just like my sweet Mommy does with Little Person, she sits on the floor and cuddles Misty and kisses her and I am truly baffled but I go under the big table and begin my hissing growl and all my Mommy says to me is, ‘Oh really… Mr. Kitty stop that.’ Then she continues hugging and kissing Misty and talks to Misty’s Mommy, Panama. And me? I am not happy until Misty and her Mommy leave.

 

 

May 26,

Hi!

       Today my Mommy is very sad. She just found out yesterday that her best friend, in Swizterland died and my Mommy can’t get over this…. actually no one, in Swizterland, can get over this… everybody is shocked and very surprised and totally baffled. How do I know all this? Well… I can go into my Mommy’s mind. I love her so much and she loves me so much that we pets can go into our loving owners mind and understand their feelings. I also know that Mommy doesn’t want me to go to Animal Heaven…. not yet. I have hyper thyroid and my Mommy, who I’m never going to leave, gives me medicine…. but, she is a wise woman, gives me my medicine all yummy-like… so I never know that I’m really eating the medicine too. But next time I come back to my blog… I’ll tell you about the time I went to the pet hospital… and man o man was that a terrific and really scary time for me… Palala went with us and Luck carried me to the Palala’s car.


 

May 30

Hi guys!

       So…. I’ll continue telling you about my trip to the hospital in Palala’s car. So… I was squeezed into, what my sweet Mommy thought was a pretty cat carrier, into a big black cat carrier. Oh… it was nice and comfy and all but mighty tight for a big guy like me. You see, I’m not exactly the slender type, I’m long and hefty even though I lost some weight but my Mommy doesn’t care if I’m big or little…. She loves me just the way I am. Once I got into the fancy cat carrier… I yowled like crazy… hoping my Mommy would let me out… I was suffocating and it was hot in Palala’s car…. Plus there were so many horrible noises and funny smells I wasn’t used to…. But my Mommy unfortunately didn’t let me out… she just kept saying, ‘Oh honey, it’ll be OK.’ ‘Hah,’ thought I!

       Then the car finally stopped and we got out, at long last some air, but it was all so scary and then I thought, ‘Boy, it is calming my nerves to hear my Mommy’s voice through all this horrible street racket… Man…. it’s so noisy out here.’

       Then we walked into this building… And boy did it smell when we got inside…. I mean it really had quite a bad whiff of other cats and dogs. We sat somewhere, far away from the other, and I was still squeezed in that box… the one my Mommy calls the cat carrier. It was a very frightening moment for me and I wondered why Mommy was making me go through all this. Then I got picked up by, I guess, the nurse and Mommy and I were FINALLY in a quiet room and FINALLY I got out of that supposedly fancy cat carrier but what I would call the box. Well, first I had to stand on this cold thing…it was a scale but, man-o-man, was it f-r-e-e-z-i-n-g cold. Then the friendly nurse told my Mommy that I was 12 pounds….. But I don’t know if that is heavy or not and my Mommy doesn’t seem to care…. My Mommy was just petting me and saying to me, ‘We’ll be home soon, honey.’ Well, it was nice to finally be alone with my Mommy in a quiet room waiting for the new doctor to show up but, boy, did I have some real serious smelling and checking out to do… I had a good roam around the little room and thought, ‘Boy, this sure is NOT at all like my Mommy’s bathroom and I can’t even open the cupboard, this is not good at all…. and what is this horrible smell… ugh!’

       Then the new doctor came in, she was nice and gentle like the other doctor…. She cleaned my ears. She and my Mommy talked about me, my handsome-ness, of course, how well I looked, my Mommy told her that I eating nicely and adored the yummy treats which had my meds inside…. Then the doctor smiled and told my Mommy that she’d call in a few days. Then I was gently stuffed back in that box, the cat carrier, and we went back into the big room with that awful smell… you know… with all the other cats and dogs. There we met Palala and we all hobbled back to the car… I know it was the car because it had that hot smell…. Uhh… and the we drove into all those ghastly street smells. Then we FINALLY got home and this time it was not Luck who carried me in but a nice tall man named Sob or something like that. Then FINALLY, FINALLY, F-I-N-A-L-L-Y, I was in my own home alone with my Mommy and the minute I was set down and Mommy unzipped the cat carrier door, did I jump out of that ever so tight and squishy cat carrier and sprawled luxuriously on the carpet floor.

       My Mommy and I are so bonded that she always knows right away what is best for me… she went and got me a bigger cat carrier…. The same kind but just a bit bigger.

 

JUNE 19

This was a big, big day… and neither my Mommy nor I knew what WAS GOING to happen ‘cause everything was going SO normal AND peachy fine… Just having a normal day but something did happen that would change everything all topsy-turvy and around.

       When my Mommy woke up that morning… She fed me and kissed me and all that nice love-y stuff and I, in return, purred and loved her right back…. She gave me my morning treats and told me, like every other normal day, where she’d be going and what she’d be doing and when she’d be home…. Just a regular humdrum of a day. Right, guys?

       My Mommy went out in the morning and came back in the afternoon…. Just a normal, plain, middle-of-the-road common day. When she came home in the afternoon she told me that she was going out to watch Little Person swim at her last swim class but then she’d be home to feed me my dinner and nifty treats…. I was cool with that. Before Mommy left for Little Person’s swim class…. She sat on the little chair and read her book until her mother came to pick her up. I always love it when my Mommy sits in that little chair because then I can sit on her lap and sit near the wicker basket or on the wicker basket and be really close to her…. I was so happy and never stopped purring…. I was really exhilarated.

       Then I saw Montanela standing there. I thought, ‘Who is she and why is she here!’ Well I do know that she is the spirit of the animals. She looks like Little Person… like a little girl all sweet and pretty but her curly hair is pink and she wears a pretty light brown-orange dress that comes down to her ankle. I simply looked at her and thought why was she here and what, in the world, was she doing…. And then…. Montanela simply disappeared. I thought, ‘Boy, Montanela is sure an odd spirit… Popping in and out like that!’ Then I quickly forgot all about her and went right back to purring around my Mommy’s leg and sat on her lap. Then the doorbell rang and my Mommy had to go and said, ‘Goodbye honey, I’ll be back in an hour and a half.’ So I just walked over to my cubby where it was nice and cozy and waited patiently until my Mommy came home.

       Suddenly Montanela popped right in front of me again as I waited for my Mommy’s return. I asked Montanela, ‘What are you doing here and why are popping in and out like this without saying anything?’ But do you think she answered my question? Nope…. She just disappeared. After a few quiet minutes she showed herself to me again and smiled at me and said, ‘ Mr. Kitty, remember me… I met you when you were a little kitten and told you that you’d end up living with a true cat lover, remember?’

       ‘No.’

       ‘Well, you were very small and very, very young back then…. And then I told you something else…. do you remember that?’

       ‘No.’

       ‘Well, you’ll remember when I come again. Bye Mr. Kitty.’

       Right after she left my Mommy came home and I was all happy to see her. Then she fed me my dinner and gave me my favorite treats… the pill pocket. Because it was a little chilly… she put the heat on and got ready to take a bath. My good Mommy always likes to see where I am…. I snoozed in my cubby near the heat… all happy and cozy as a well-fed clam. Then the heat turned itself off and I decided to have a catnap in my nice big basket… Mommy took her bath and never knew what was going on. Meanwhile Montanela came back but this time she sat very close to my basket. I looked at her and asked, ‘Time already?’

       ‘Oh… You do remember what I said when you were a little kitten! Yes Mr. Kitty, it’s time now.’

       ‘But it’s too soon.’

       ‘You’ve been with your beloved Mommy for seven long years and they have been the best years for you and she has been so good to you and you’ve been her most loyal and lovely companion but now it is time to say goodbye to her.’

       ‘But can I just stay with her for a while and make the going is a very gentle one for her?’

       ‘Yes, darling Mr. Kitty, you may stay with her until tomorrow and then I’ll come to get you and then we have to must journey on….. We have to go to the Garden of Frieskland and then cross the wide River of Jazz n’ Jake and then wait for your wings to grow so that you can fly to your heavenly home where Douglas, Princess Twinkles, Flora and many others will be waiting for you.’

       ‘Oh good… this is not going to be easy for my beloved Mommy… it’ll be very sudden and she’ll cry a lot.’

       ‘Yes darling Mr. Kitty, it will be very sad and hard for her, don’t be sad Mr. Kitty though because another little kitty will come and be the new little Mr. Kitty.’

       ‘But why, why now Montanela… Why do I have to leave my Mommy now?’

       ‘Dear Mr. Kitty, every cat has a kitty soul. Kitty souls are like batteries… these batteries run and run but after a while the battery slows down and stops…. Then it’s time to say goodbye to the old battery and get a new one. You understand, sweetest? Your kitty soul battery has stopped for this earth. Believe me, your dear Mommy will be truly very, very sad and she will NEVER forget you… ever but she will get another kitty and this new kitty needs a home really badly and this new kitty also has to try to get healthier and overcome her kitty fears and this new kitty can only do this if she gets to live with your Mommy. Your Mommy has a very special healing love for animals…. But she will never ever forget her Mr. Kitty.’

       Then Montanela left, I was alone and, my Mommy was taking a bath. I wanted to walk over to the bathroom to see my Mommy and say one last good bye and a huge thanks but I was feeling so very tired and went back to my catnap and suddenly my heart stopped beating its kitty beat… I guess my kitty soul battery really stopped like Montanela had once told me a long time ago. Surprisingly, I came out of my cat body and felt so much lighter than before and I felt kind of different but because there were no mirrors around anywhere I couldn’t see myself. I sat on my haunches and waited until Mommy came into the kitchen. My Mommy saw me, my old dead self, lying in the basket and thought (remember I can go into my Mommy’s mind and read all of her thoughts) how very sweet and peaceful I looked in the basket. All I could think was, ‘Oh Mommy…. You have no idea what has just happened to me… I’m really, really gone!’ But Mommy did notice that my old self wasn’t looking at her and making sure that she was putting some chicken treats on my plate….but Mommy decided to let me sleep. Then she got very concerned and finally came over to gently blow on my fur… the gentle way of waking me up but I never budged when she blew on my fur…. Then my poor Mommy moved my dead body finally and noticed that I was DEAD. My Mommy was so shocked and she put my head next to her face and said, ‘Oh Mr. Kitty, Mr. Kitty, Mr. Kitty, no, no, no!’ I could feel her brain turning in mushy cotton candy. My Mommy ran to the phone and begged her friend to come and help her…. she said that there was no one in the building who could help her and she couldn’t deal with my death alone. Mommy’s friend came and they put me in the cat carrier and drove straight to the hospital and left my body there for a private cremation. Before my Mommy left me, she put her face so close to mine and cried and cried and said, ‘Thank you for being my great big lovely-lovely Mr. Kitty.’ After that I followed my Mommy back home and she was already telling another friend of hers that she had to adopt another new kitty immediately or else her heart would simply die of sheer grief. My poor and sad Mommy finally went to bed and I saw another beautiful spirit touch her head and my head and that pretty spirit stayed all night with us.

       The next day the pretty spirit left and Montanela came and it was my turn to say goodbye to my loveliest of Mommies…. And let me tell you guys… It was not easy.

 

Here ends Mr. Kitty’s blog and Honeygirl’s blog will begin.