    This is my cat, Tye. She was a barn cat, that we had found outside, when she was young. Well, accually the dogs found her, and we kept her. We never 'really' named her, we just started calling her Tye. She was well trained. Tye would come and take walks with us, around our yard, and she never left our sight. She was mostly an inside cat, but every once in a while, we would let her outside. She had 'baby Tye's' now and again. When we finally went to get her spayed, the Vet said she had cancer in her stomach area. He was not sure when it would accually become a serious cancer, but it was there. Now, she lived for three or four years before it accually became a bad thing for her. She lived for a few months, but it just got so bad we had decided to give her a pain free life. We went to go put her to sleep August 6th, 1996. The appointment was scheduled for about 5:00 pm... so I just think of that as the time she died. It was a very painful time for me, she was the only pet that had been with me for a long time, that I had ever lost. I still love Tye... I am mad that she had to die, but I am happy that she is out of her pain, and before the pain was to the point, that she was looking for a place to die. A few weeks after her death, we recieved a card from the vet. It was a In Sympathy card, with a kitty on the cover. Inside it said: May the beautiful memories you have of the friend you loved sustain you in this time of sorrow. And then the vet signed it: We are sorry about your loss of Tye. Our thoughts are with you. I cried and cried when I revieved this card. I though it was the best thing the vet could do for this time of pain in my life. I still have her collar, she never really liked it, so I decided to keep it, to free her from another thing that she didn't like as a part of her life. I love you Tye Tye, and I will never forget you, not even in my own death! |
