Hey Ray, sorry to read the sad news, I haven't been reading all of the posts over here for a few weeks and then tonight I wanted to look at some of the pet photos and then I read your post. Sorry.
My wife and son are still really down about our boxer Heidi but one bright spot we took in a small cat early last August at about the time we found out Heidi had congestive heart failure issues and my wife and boy were driving back to Philly to visit the grand parents. Grandpop is not doing too well but anyway the night before around midnight my son can't sleep because he's excited about the next morning's trip and he see a small black cat peering in the window and we go out and it looked pretty thin and hungry. Put some food and water down for it and the next morning my son and wife are getting into the minivan and Christopher says to the kitten cheerfully "see you when I get back" and the wife wispers to me "that kitten can't be here when we get back". My son calls every day for the next week "Hey dad, how's the kitten doing?"........That was August........the "kitten" turns out to be not so much of a kitten and has two kittens on October 18, '09 around midnight of course. My wife flew back to Philly to visit with her dad (Grandpop) during Thanksgiving, I put Heidi our boxer with her heart problems and the cat ("kitten") and her two kittens in the Vet kennel because of Heidi's med needs and the four week old kittens nursing and then got the sad news of Heidi's passing on Thanksgiving in the kennel, but we still have the "kitten" and one of the two kittens she had, the black one. A Vet tech where we had them boarded wanted the tabby which we had named "Tabby Hunter". The black kitten is named "Blacky Onassis". We had a gray cat for 14 years named "Betty Grayball" and our first boxer that we had that we got the week that Greta Garbo died was named "Greta Garboxer".
We never knew the age of the "kitten" and we never knew the "kitten" was pregnant, only she knew..........that's why we named her "Shadow" because "Only the Shadow knew" :rimshot: ........................ :jester:
