Slugger 1999-2011

[Charley Sullivan]

35 days since you've gone. 5 weeks.

I miss you Slugger your mom cat misses you.

I miss seeing you every morning when I get up and opening the cat door for you. I miss seeing you greet me every night when I came home from work. Every time I buy you sister cat some food or litter I miss you.

I miss seeing you on the bed at night and you crawling up between me and your mom cat and soaking up our love and attention. I see you everywhere. When I look out back. Sitting here at the computer I look down at the floor where you may have been sitting begging me to pay attention to you which I did most of the time but regretting the times I didn't. I miss you jumping up in the kitchen chair wanting me to pet you.

Every night when I come home from work and pull in the drive way I look where I might have seen. Strolling over from the neighbors yard or meeting me at the door and speaking to me.

I miss seeing you come and hearing your bell when I called you at the back door.

I miss it when you would wake me up from my afternoon naps by head butting me or licking on my face and hands. You knew wet food was at 6:00 but you always woke me at 4:00 laugh. I miss how you looked at me like I was never going to feed you again.

I miss your head butts and nose kisses. I miss petting your head which you loved so much and I miss you sitting with me and clawing my legs.

I even miss you scratching me when you did when we were playing. I had a place on my right wrist from where we were giving you medicine but it has healed.

I see you in my mind on a summer day and we are out back and I see you out in the yard and hold my cupped hand down for you and call your name and you come happily with your white tipped tail up in the air like you did many times before. I pet your head and say "you're a good boy, you're a good cat." You were and you always be "my" cat Slugger. I was always so proud of you and I love you. For the first time in weeks I have tears in my eyes as more realization of you being gone from this Earth is hitting me. You were the best cat ever.

We will see each other again one day.

[orrymain]

I am so sorry for your loss. The love and joy cats bring to our lives seem to be immeasurable. With each passing day I hope you start to feel that he will always be with you and your wife. You gave him lots of love and a wonderful life. Take care.

[Kobster]

I'm so sorry for your loss. What a wonderful boy he was.

[cooncatbob]

When I last my beloved Samantha last May I got a copy of
"The Kingdom of Heart" A pet Loss Journal by Patty Luckenbach and it's help with the grieving process.
There's a place inside where you write a letter to your departed pet and tell them what they meant to you.
There's also a space you write a letter to yourself as your departed pet, putting myself in Samantha's place and giving her a voice was healing for me, I know that she loved her Papa dearly, just as much as I loved her.

[Charley Sullivan]

Tonight is 7 weeks ......49 days.

I love you Slugger and I miss you.

"You are a good boy...you are a good cat"

[cooncatbob]

I feel your pain, today is 9 months since that terrible day I lost Samantha.
Even today the memory is like a nightmare I can't wake up from.

[kittylion]

I am new to the site Charley but when I saw the photo of Slugger I felt I had to send you a response.

Three months before you said goodbye to Slugger, I said goodbye to Polly - a ginger tabby rather like Slugger but smaller. She too had a jingle bell. She was 16 and my two sons had grown up with her.

I said I wouldn't have another cat - I have. I thought I wouldn't have another ginger - but I have (ginger and white), and I said I wouldn't have another jingle bell ... but I have of course.

Now when I call her and I hear that little jingle bell, I think of both of them - Polly and Ruby - you won't forget him ever, but you will eventually love another cat just as much - you just have to find the right one, like I did.

Thinking of you

[Charley Sullivan]

Thank you kittylion.

[Charley Sullivan]

To my beloved Slugger

It is exactly 87 days since you left us.

It is Spring and the weather is very nice and you would love it. Yesterday I mowed the grass for the first time and I missed you a lot. I missed seeing you out on the patio in your favorite chair and I miss you when I look out the kitchen window and can see where you might have been.

I hope there is some way in Heaven that you know how much I love you and how much I miss you and what you came to mean to me here on Earth. I pray to God about you almost every night. You were my best friend, my constant companion. If I was feeling bad you were there with your loyalty and comfort.

You were always a good boy and a good cat. I was very proud of you and I feel honored that you graced me with your life.

There is now a huge framed picture of you above the bed where I sleep and your collar is hanging over the corner of the frame. I still have to work on your grave so it is worthy of a guy like you.

Slugger I miss you buddy. You are a good cat. I miss seeing your happy face. I miss your nose kisses and head butts and I miss having you around me every day of my life. My heart still aches for you.

I am sorry if I didn't pick up on it soon enough when you were sick. I pray you did not suffer too much.

I am sure you are in a much better place now but it does not take away the sting of not having you here with me.

Love,

your dad cat.