[birmanfanatic]

found this on another forum - just had to post it here for everyone..... :blush:

don't know if it's been posted before (if it has, sorry) - it's a great read..... warning - you may need a tissue...... :cry:



"I Am Your Cat" - Author Unknown


I am your cat, and I have a little something I'd like to whisper in your ear.

I know that you humans lead busy lives. Some have to work, some have children to raise. It always seems like you are running here and there, often much too fast, often never noticing the truly grand things in life.

Look down at me now, while you sit there at your computer. See the way my eyes look at yours?

They are slightly cloudy now. That comes with age. The grey hairs are beginning to ring my soft muzzle.

You smile at me; I see love in your eyes. What do you see in mine? Do you see a spirit? A soul inside, who loves you as no other could in the world? A spirit that would forgive all trespasses of prior wrong doing for just a simple moment of your time?

That is all I ask. To slow down, if even for a few minutes to be with me. So many times you have been saddened by the words you read on that screen, of others of my kind, passing.

Sometimes we die young and oh so quickly, sometimes so suddenly it wrenches your heart out of your throat. Sometimes, we age so slowly before your eyes that you may not even seem to know until the very end, when we look at you with grizzled muzzles and cataract clouded eyes.

Still the love is always there, even when we must take that long sleep, to run free in a distant land. I may not be here tomorrow; I may not be here next week. Someday you will shed the water from your eyes, that humans have when deep grief fills their souls, and you will be angry at yourself that you did not have just "One more day" with me.

Because I love you so, your sorrow touches my spirit and grieves me. We have NOW, together. So come, sit down here next to me, and look deep into my eyes. What do you see? If you look hard and deep enough we will talk, you and I, heart to heart.

Come to me not as "alpha" or as "owner" or even "Mom or Dad," come to me as a living soul and stroke my fur and let us look deep into one another's eyes, and talk. I may tell you something about the fun of batting toys, or I may tell you something profound about myself, or even life in general.

You decided to have me in your life because you wanted a soul to share such things with. Someone very different from you, and here I am.

I am a cat, but I am alive. I feel emotion, I feel physical senses, and I can revel in the differences of our spirits and souls. I do not think of you as a "Cat on two feet" -- I know what you are. You are human, in all your quirkiness, and I love you still.

Now, come sit with me. Enter my world, and let time slow down if only for 15 minutes. Look deep into my eyes, and whisper into my ears. Speak with your heart, with your joy and I will know your true self. We may not have tomorrow, and life is oh so very short.........

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[Anneliese]

Beautiful!!! And you are correct you need tissues :cry: :cry:

[Ralf]

:cry: :cry: Gotto go and find my cats......

[luv'n'kittylitter]

:cry: No matter how hard he fights me... :cry: I'm gonna go pin Percy down and give him a smooch! :cry:

Michele

[CatsRU]

That was so beautiful and sad - I have to go and get my tissues also.

[Hayley]

That is beautiful and so true. Need to find the cats...

[Susan]

Ahh.... how true :cry: :cry: :cry: . Thank god I have tissues and my cats next to me.

Cuddle your cat and lower your stress levels.... :) :)

[{Wild-cat}]

Like everyone else :cry: got to go find the cat,s :cry: might take me a while there is a few, :cry: and the tissue box :cry: :cry: :cry:

[Chelle]

So very very true... I lost one of mine at the tender age of 7 months... I'm going to go find my Shadow now and give her cuddles :cry:

[jacquie]

Have to go bury a little soul now.... wish I read this yesterday :cry:

[birmanfanatic]

Oh Jacquie,

so sorry to hear that - what happenend ???? :blush:

It's really heart-breaking to do, isn't it ???? just one of the pitfalls of breeding - but we've all had to do it, unfortunately. :cry:

Louise :cat2: :cat:

This post has been edited by birmanfanatic: 25 January 2004 - 04:02 PM

[jacquie]

The little girl was 8 weeks old and on Saturday night she seemed a bit flat and sleepy, I just thought she'd eaten too much or played to hard so I put her in bed with me for the night, I checked on her a no. of times and she was always layed out flat next to me and when I touched her she would stretch and purr, at 6.30 Sunday morning I woke up and she was gone, I found her on the floor dead! I was totally freeked out, I wrapped her in a blanket and kept her in my room until my kids woke up and then burried (sp?) her. I cleaned out her bed and found a dead spider, a white tip, told the vet what I found and he said it was most probably the spider that killed her, I know they can cause humans problems with their bites but I would of thought the liitle girl would of showed some symtems.

And then when I read that poem?,story? it broke my heart, even my kids (who were crying) looked at me funny when I layed her in the grave and couldn't stop blubbering! Anyway, I gave all my other babies big hugs and kisses and made sure I looked into their eyes when I spoke to them!! the funny this was they had such big contented sleeps afterwards, I know what to do next time one of them has trouble sleeping! (or we do!!)

Jacquie

This post has been edited by jacquie: 26 January 2004 - 09:44 AM

[Susan]

Oh Jacquie, I am so very sorry for the loss of your little girl, how heartbreaking for you all. Thinking of you all.

[sage]

The poem made me teary enough and then I got to Jacquie's story, now I am just a blubbering mess, thinking about my new girl Sage, and how the breeder rang me when she was 8 weeks and said she is sick I ' don't think she will make it. Well thank God she did, you may have seen the pics I have posted the last few days. That's also her below as my signature. I don't what I would do if I lost her now, and to think I may have never known her at all. Bless her little soul.

Gill