Felines Past and Present

[Izzie]

Well it's about time I assaulted you all with my cat pictures. Beware, the floodgates have opened!

The brown tabby was my fairy godmother in disguise, Mollie. We let her go this Thanksgiving, she was ~18. She had been diagnosed with kidney disease a year before that on Christmas Eve after a grand mal seizure. A couple months later, what we suspect was cancer started growing in her jaw- we changed her diet for KD and kept her only while she was comfortable and happy to be here. She adopted us during an october storm 11 years ago, and I wouldn't be who I am today without her.

Giant black furry monster girl is Hallie (smokey black). She's 6yo this year. Best nuzzler in the world, and very cuddly on her own terms. We have great conversations as she chirps and chirps away. You can't go a day with this cat without cracking up- she' just about the most uncoordinated cat I've ever met. And having slick floors doesn't help.

The last, and maybe the most special, is Posh (grey/cream torbie). We found each other when I was volunteering at a shelter near my college in SD. She was completely shut down, and wouldn't open up to anybody- until I came along. Try as I might, I never got her to bond to anybody else- so Christmas break came, and she got packed into my car for the 12hour ride home to CO!
What was really beautiful, is that when we met, she had an awful cold and ear infection...and as Mollie got worse back home around Thanksgiving, suddenly Posh started improving. I don't know if you believe in that kind of thing...but it made me think. They both have the exact same smile.


It has been so healing and rewarding watching Posh blossom in the real world- and teach Hallie how to play! Mollie was always the more regal matriarch in her later years, so Hallie never had a role model. So yes, very special.

Anyways, enough of my dribble, here are some pictures!
Posh and I at the shelter:



Hallie monster
She doesn't photograph well (won't stay still) so this is the best shot I've gotten in 6 years.


Sweet Mollie (RIP)