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Heart and Soul

Posted in Chi-Town Fur Gang, tagged , , on October 15, 2008| 4 Comments »

I’d written recently of my loss of Afer E Granny, my “heart”.

When it rains, it pours – I lost Omaha, my “soul”, last night.  Perhaps they were meant to make this journey together.  Perhaps the powers-that-be just felt as long as I was grieving, best dump everything on me at once.  I don’t know, but my heart aches and my home feels empty and life isn’t the same without them.

I never knew Omaha healthy, nor has anyone I know.  He was admitted to the shelter with leg/hip injuries and potential neurological damage.  So, I have difficulty imagining him running free now – but I’m sure he is.

Omie da Great

Omie da Great

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Completion

Posted in Chi-Town Fur Gang, tagged , , , , , on October 12, 2008| 6 Comments »

I love all my cats, past and present. I have to admit, though, two of them are a bit special to me. I don’t love them any more than the others, but there’s just this particular feeling about those two. I suspect it’s because I didn’t adopt these two cats because they needed me (unlike the others), but because, in a way, I needed them. Adopting them just seemed to complete my life and my home. A shelter staff member once laughed at the first two I’d chosen from their organization, these two, saying they were the “yin and yang” of the shelter. I often said it was as though they were my heart and my soul: Afer my heart, so brave and strong, slightly elusive, expressing pure joy at the simple pleasures of being petted or brushed, a bit of cheese or sour cream from my plate… Omaha my soul, so smart and loyal, hardened by life yet so protective of those he loved, distrusting and willing to fight to the end for what he wanted (or didn’t want), ready to do whatever he wanted or needed to do despite any obstacles faced…
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