About a year ago, we had to put our kitty Toodles down: [View all]

[truedelphi]

I just had the sweetest dream about her, that I was taking down a tablecloth off the "kitty table" in our den, and I saw a kitty blanket crumpled up. When I went to straighten it, Toodles was hiding there.

She gave me a big grin and then I realized that over the past year, I should have looked for her. Finally I said, "I'm so sorry I didn't realize you are still with us." And she gave me her "outlaw grin" like she knew she could fool me.

In the dream, I never thought to consider that she was doing so well even though we hadn't fed her in over a year. This was a cat that showed up on our second floor porch, despite being 90% blind, half of the skin and flesh on the right side of her face missing. The vet who had tested her for feline AIDS, at the point in time after we had her for two months, and let us know that she had it. Yes, we were told way back in Nov 2010 how she had only six months, yet she blossomed under my spouse's tender care, including a mushroom potion he obtained monthly over the internet.

Under his patient and loving care, she became a beauty of a cat. When she became tumor-filled, late summer 2012, I went into denial, as I really thought she had beaten back the disease.

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