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Remembering my cats

2020-06-10 · 11 min

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    Our first family cat belonged to my

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    grandfather. When my grandfather became

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    very ill, he had to go to the hospital.

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    Whilst he was at the hospital, my dad used

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    to take me and my sister over to his house

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    to look after his cat. She was quite an

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    old cat at the time, and she was very

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    timid and scared of us. She was called

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    Peepee because every time we went to see

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    her, she would hide from us, and then she

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    would peep around corners. To see what we

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    were doing. My dad always used to make

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    this strange meal for her. He used to get

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    cat food and then mix it together with

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    bread and milk and then mash it all into

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    some kind of weird paste. I'm not sure why

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    he used to do this because we never did

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    this with any of the other cats. Why

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    didn't he just give Pippi cat food without

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    the milk and bread? After my grandfather

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    passed away, we moved into his house and

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    we carried on looking after his cat,

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    Pippi. Unfortunately, she didn't last very

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    long. I think she lived for maybe a couple

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    of years before she passed away as well.

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    Our second cat was called Toffee. My mum

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    bought Toffee as a birthday present for my

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    sister. He used to be very skinny and he

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    had massive ears, but over time he became

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    very, very fat. Toffee was my favourite

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    cat because he was very friendly and

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    cuddly. He would always run over to me

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    when I was sitting down, and he would sit

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    on my lap, and he would wait for me to

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    finish dinner so he could lick my plate.

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    He was always there when I was feeling

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    really lonely, to comfort me and sit with

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    me and keep me company, and I really do

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    miss him quite a lot. I ended up going to

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    Japan, and I lived there for about 2

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    years, and unfortunately, during my first

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    year in Japan, he passed away, and I

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    wasn't able to get back home in time to

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    see him. He had quite a problematic life.

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    He had many accidents. One time he got hit

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    by a car but managed to survive. He needed

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    to have a lot of surgery done on his

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    stomach, and then he got cancer.

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    He got some kind of tumor on his back leg.

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    His back leg needed to be amputated, and

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    then he had to spend the rest of his life

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    hopping around.

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    Our third cat was called Tiggs, and we

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    called her Tiggs because at the time me

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    and my sister were really into this TV—

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    kids TV program called The Shiny Show,

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    and there was a cat on it called Tiggs.

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    So we named her after that character, and

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    we ended up getting Tiggs by accident.

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    One day we just found her in the shed in

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    the garden. She was living there after her

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    mother dropped her off and left her there.

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    And we tried luring her out by giving her

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    bowls of milk, and eventually we managed

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    to lure her into the house, and then she

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    just became our cat. I don't really

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    remember Tiggs very well because I think

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    at the time I wasn't really interested in

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    cats. I was more interested in Xbox and

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    PlayStation. Unfortunately, Tiggs didn't

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    live very long. I think she lived for

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    about 4 or 5 years, and she had a car

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    accident and didn't survive.

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    And then finally we have Mimo. Mimo is our

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    last cat, and my mum ended up

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    buying her after Tiggs passed away out of

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    sadness. She was feeling sad and wanted to

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    get a new cat to replace Tiggs, I guess.

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    Mimo has always been kind of shy,

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    anxious, very timid. She doesn't really

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    like being cuddled or picked up or

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    squeezed, and she doesn't really like

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    sitting on people's laps like Toffee or

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    Pipi did. She used to do a lot of hunting,

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    and we had a lot of problems with her

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    bringing in rabbits and mice into the

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    house. Now that she's older, she doesn't

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    do much hunting these days, and she also

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    went a bit blind recently. She had to be

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    taken to the vets. They said something

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    about high blood pressure and they gave us

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    some tablets, and I think her eyesight has

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    kind of returned. I'm not sure how much of

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    it has returned, but she doesn't seem to

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    be as blind as she was before, so I guess

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    the tablets did something good.

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    Yeah, it's kind of sad seeing the cats

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    leave us one by one until there's only one

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    left. The last of the Lord family cats.

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    After they are gone, it really does kind

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    of feel like there's this empty space,

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    kind of like they've left this big empty

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    hole in the family where they used to be,

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    because they're here for such a long time,

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    nearly 20 years in some cases, and then

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    one day they're just not here anymore,

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    and it's just like a memory, and you keep

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    looking back at the memory, but it's all

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    in the past. And they're not here now. It

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    kind of sucks. I would love it if I could

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    just go and get some new kittens because I

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    think the house feels kind of empty and

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    lifeless without some animals running

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    around. But I'm not allowed to because

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    apparently it's too much money and work.

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    And I guess it wouldn't be very fair if I

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    just got a bunch of kittens and then

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    decided to go back to Japan and then my

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    mum had to look after them. Well, that was

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    the history of our family cats. Hope you

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    enjoyed it. Goodbye.

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    Uh, she's drinking the pond water.

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    Burger and

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    chips.

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    Burger,

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    burger, burger and chips.

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