My cat James
Apr. 25th, 2010 03:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
manicsfanI just thought I would dedicate a journal entry to my sick kitty James while we wait to find out what will be happening with her.
This is her from last year:
I am going to have to get out my camera and take some more recent photos of her. Even though her health and body weight have already partially deteriorated.
This is a photo of her and her siblings at just a few weeks old (she is the one on the far left):
She and her siblings were born under my bed after our cat Marilyn got pregnant (she was spayed after that). All the kittens went to friends, so we'd know they were going to be looked after. However, my Mum's friends, who was going to have James, had some unforeseen problems and was unable to take her in the end. By then I had got so attached to James that we decided to keep her.
Which is why she has a male name. When the kittens were born we named them (clockwise from the left in that photo): James, Sean, Tabby and Maccy. Reasoning that it didn't matter what their sexes were, since their names would be changed anyway after 8 weeks when they went to their new homes. By the time we unexpectedly decided to keep James we had got used to the name and it stuck!
This is her from 2005, having fun in the garden:
I am glad she is still currently happy. I hope to make the right decisions for her in the coming months, and to not be selfish when the time comes that her suffering gets too much. At the moment though, she is still enjoying life. She is bounding around the garden now, as I type!
~ Ace.
This is her from last year:
I am going to have to get out my camera and take some more recent photos of her. Even though her health and body weight have already partially deteriorated.
This is a photo of her and her siblings at just a few weeks old (she is the one on the far left):
She and her siblings were born under my bed after our cat Marilyn got pregnant (she was spayed after that). All the kittens went to friends, so we'd know they were going to be looked after. However, my Mum's friends, who was going to have James, had some unforeseen problems and was unable to take her in the end. By then I had got so attached to James that we decided to keep her.
Which is why she has a male name. When the kittens were born we named them (clockwise from the left in that photo): James, Sean, Tabby and Maccy. Reasoning that it didn't matter what their sexes were, since their names would be changed anyway after 8 weeks when they went to their new homes. By the time we unexpectedly decided to keep James we had got used to the name and it stuck!
This is her from 2005, having fun in the garden:
I am glad she is still currently happy. I hope to make the right decisions for her in the coming months, and to not be selfish when the time comes that her suffering gets too much. At the moment though, she is still enjoying life. She is bounding around the garden now, as I type!
~ Ace.
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Date: 2010-04-25 03:19 pm (UTC)xx
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Date: 2010-04-26 11:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-25 05:02 pm (UTC)*hugs* for the time to come, whatever it brings.
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Date: 2010-04-26 11:33 pm (UTC)You're right, though. The joy of having her as a companion for the last 7 years will certainly outweigh the pain of letting her go - when I have to - in the long run.