rest in peace, claudia

poor claudia..... the skin and bones cat that my dad and stepmom found under the house had to be euthanised this evening. poor, poor thing. :(. about 2 months ago, my stepmom found an excedingly scruffy old cat under the front of the house, and untill today she was a fighter. despite the fact that this cat ate and ate and ate and then lived in the kitchen just to mooch scraps off of you when you passed through, she was unable to really gain weight and get better. this cat was literally skin and bones. you could feel her ridgy arthritic spine and legs just from looking at her. when she sat down, she squated cause she couldn't manage to get her ass on the floor. her furr was the color of a melted peanutbutter cup, and her personality was just as sweet. nothing phased this cat. perhaps because she was rather blind, but i'm going to ignore that. we actually began to beleive that she was the cat incarnate of my stepmom's late whippit, trigger. everything about this cat was trigger. it was odd and comforting at the same time. but unfortunatly, her time with us had ended. she got sick recently and wasn't going to recover due to her condition. i'm sure that both she and my dad/stepmom knew that her time had come, so at about 6:45pm my stepmom put her in the carrying bag and off they went to meet fate. my stepmom came back alone at 7:30.


rest in peace, dear claudia.....