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Subject: [OM] Re: OT Another Dead Cat Day
From: "Joel Wilcox" <jfwilcox@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 16:19:58 -0500
Heartache and beer have made us dizzy,
Now for the ages is sweet Izzy.

Joel W.

On 6/13/06, Walt Wayman <hiwayman@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> The patriarch of our four-cat family, Max, died in February of this year.  He 
> was nearly 19 years old and just wore out.  We buried him in the yard.  My 
> wife wanted to bring the feline population back "in balance," and so she 
> brought home a very cute and vivacious female kitten from the local no-kill 
> shelter.   By late April, it was becoming apparent that Izzy was failing to 
> thrive, and we got the diagnosis we had dreaded: FIP.  Nothing seemed to help 
> much, and in the last two weeks she had begun to decline rapidly.  This 
> morning we found her unable to stand and breathing weakly.  We called our 
> vet, who specializes in cats, and had an appointment at 11:00  to have her 
> "put down."  But Izzy didn't last that long and died peacefully in my wife's 
> lap just before 10:00.
>
> So, I gotta go dig another hole in the cat graveyard and think up another 
> kitty epitaph.  Can anybody top this one?
>
> "Now on angel wings she sails;
> Now she chases comet tails."
>
> Wish I'd taken more pictures.  She was a really pretty little girl.
>
> Hope y'all are having a better day.  :-(
>
> Walt

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