Rainbow Bridge

The Last Battle

If it should be that I grow frail and weak
And pain should keep me from my sleep,
Then will you do what must be done,
For this -- the last battle -- can't be won.
You will be sad I understand,
But don't let grief then stay your hand,
For on this day, more than the rest,
Your love and friendship must stand the test.
We have had so many happy years,
You wouldn't want me to suffer so.
When the time comes, please, let me go.
Take me to where to my needs they'll tend,
Only, stay with me till the end
And hold me firm and speak to me
Until my eyes no longer see.
I know in time you will agree
It is a kindness you do to me.
Although my tail its last has waved,
From pain and suffering I have been saved.
Don't grieve that it must be you
Who has to decide this thing to do;
We've been so close -- we two -- these years,
Don't let your heart hold any tears. 

 

Jade ran to the Rainbow Bridge this afternoon.  I can only hope that Mia & Ghost are showing her around along with all the other pets who went before her.

Does anyone still check on us???

Hi.... anyone there???   Sorry for the blurry looking picture but we are working on getting Mom to work on our blog again.   It is amazing we even got her to post this...

Purrs... Myst

Party!

Hi, this is Myst....   I am having party today for my 5th birthday.  Everyone is invited...  Please be nice to my Aunt who is visiting because it is her birthday too.   And check out my picture on the blogosphere calendar for today too.

Missing Monday

Our Cocoa is missing.  She disappeared Christmas night and we have found no trace of her.  Please purr for her.  Honey (our newest addition) is missing her friend terribly.  We are very worried.

Hope everyone is having a happy holiday season...


Thanks,

Jen, Jade, Myst, Blackie & Honey

Donation

Rikki's Refuge Donation

We made a $150 donation in honor of June 10th birthdays for Myst, Sammy Meezer and Mom's sister.   They have someone doubling donations until midnight today (6/15).  

Thanks to everyone who commented for Myst....

Myst's Birthday Donation

We think that a $4.25 donation (17 comments) isn't nearly enough.   So we are trying to come up with a good way to get Rikki's Refuge a bigger donation.  Does anyone have ideas?

Myst's Birthday

HI!!!! It is my 4th birthday!!! I made Mom put some pictures up (she said I had to have a baby picture up).  Enjoy my baby picture as well as my current one :). We hope that everyone comes by and watches some bird TV (we have hummingbirds). We also have buffet so help yourselves. And today is also our friend Sammy's birthday as well as our Aunt Gail (Mom's sister).   Mom also is planning to donate $0.25 for every comment we get to Rikki's Refuge. She said she will have to put upper limit if we get a lot.   And thanks to the comments on CWB to give Mom some ideas on what she could do for my birthday!
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Party!!!

Our Mom deserted us to go to business conference so we are having a house trashing party. If anyone wants to look out the front windows, we have bird TV tuned in (including hummingbirds). THoE is best played up & down the stairs and there are plenty of places to nap around too. We are laying out the noms now so everyone is welcome.

Human Health Update

We haven't fallen off face of earth! Mom is just horrible with posting (she spends too much time working & on facebook). Anyway... some of you may have noticed based on Mom's FB posts that the humans around here are having health issues. Mom had first part of 3 part dental surgery in December (she has next scheduled for June). Our Granddaddy who lives with us has been diagnosed with slow growing cancer so he is undergoing treatments. Some of you may remember that Mia & Ghost nursed our Grandmother when she was fighting cancer (none of us remember her as we came after she lost that fight). We would appreciate any spare purrs you can generate for Granddaddy! Mom keeps up with everyone better on facebook so we don't know how much we will post but we do miss everyone & try to check everyone's blogs as regularly as we can! Jade, Myst, Blackie & Cocoa

Floofy Friday with Jade

Hello everyone... I am Jade and as you can tell from one of my first pictures here I'm a floofy Calico. I'm head cat here at Bamacats because I have seniority over all cats (and that dog) that are here now. As head cat, I have to make sure to take care of Mom - I've played nurse kitty when she was sick and I check on her at night making sure she is okay (she isn't always appreciative of my late night checks if I wake her). Mom's sister is coming this weekend. She gave me one of my nicknames so I'd like to know if any of you have any that you are willing to share. Mine is Princess Pretty Paws which I think is quite fitting as I should be recognized as a Princess. PURRSSSSSSSSSSSS........... Jade

Wordy White Cat Wednesday with Myst

HI!!! I'm Myst and welcome to wordy, white cat Wednesday. Mom said I needed to admit that I am not all white. I have orange stripes on my tail as well as light orange on my face and ears. Mom thinks that I have some Meezer in my family tree cause I have crossed blue eyes and my orange kind of shows up like a flame point. Anyways... I like PLAYING, looking out windows, talking to birds and bug chasing. I love to annoy... I mean play with Blackie. I don't bother Jade too much (she scares me). Would anyone like to come join my while I bird watch? Mom said the weather in Alabama has been wonderful with sunny skies & highs only in 70s or 80s so we should see a lot of birds! Blackie wants to thank everyone for the comments on his ManCat Monday post. We can't believe Mom is actually posting two times in one week. She has promised Jade & Cocoa will have their say too so hopefully you will see more from us on a more regular basis. PURRSSSSSSSSSS.......................... Myst

Mancat Monday with Blackie

Hello... Blackie here for Mancat Monday! Since we don't blog nearly enough, I should introduce myself. I am a handsome (Mom said so) fluffy black cat with very green eyes. I wandered up here and decided this was my house. I work hard to protect my peoples and keep the dog (Cocoa) in line. I love my peoples and the other cats here even if Myst gets on my nerves sometimes - the dog I only tolerate. Hopefully, Mom will start helping us blog on more regular basis. If anyone knows how we can make her let me know. Thanks... Blackie :)

Myst's Birthday

It is MY birthday today! I am three - does anyone want to come play? Oh, and Happy Birthday to Sammy and my Aunt Gail too. PURRS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ~ Myst

Mom's Day (and Granddaddy too)

Hi! Happy Mother's Day! I'd like to tell story about my cat mom. She was a stray that my human mom was feeding and she had 3 kittens, two fluffy ginger cats & ME! To try not to confuse anyone, when I say mom I referring to my human one & will say cat mom otherwise. Mom & a friend came down to take care of feeding strays one day and they saw that my cat mom had given birth s they started looking for kittens. They caught glimpses of two of them but then cat mom brought her over to a bush & showed her something underneath it. Can you guess what was under bush? It was ME!!! Mom picked me up & I was very scared but she took me home where Jade hissed at me. She decided that I was perfect mix of Ghost & Mia so they must have sent me to her. And that how my cat mom found me my forever home (and Jade still hisses at me). We aren't really celebrating Mother's Day so much today. Today is my Granddaddy's birthday! It is a big number for him (with zero on end) so his surprise party is this afternoon (shhh.... don' tell). Purrs ~ Myst

Jade

Hello everyone! I'm mad at Mom - she forgot my Gotcha Day that was April 17th! I've lived here for 4 years now. This is my story... I had a home but I think I must have gotten lost some way so I found an office where I took a nap. Someone spotted my belly while I napped in bushes and my Mom came out to check on me. They looked and checked to see if someone was looking for me but had no luck so then Mom took me home (she had lost Mia to the Rainbow Bridge about 6 months before). Ghost hissed & fussed at me but I didn't bother her & BG really didn't pay any attention to me. They both have gone to Bridge now too. So now I am head cat here as I have seniority over Myst & Blackie... as you can tell from my picture I am a fluffy Calico with Jade green eyes... I'm very happy that I've found my forever home...many purrs to everyone!

Twizzler

We just learned that our friend Twizzler has told his Mom that he is ready to go to Rainbow Bridge to be with his brothers Buzzerbee, Meep & Bear. We are sending our purrs to him & his family.

We've made so many friends thru our blog & seen a lot past. We miss everyone who has gone before and we try to remember the following quote:

Don't cry because it's over, Smile because it happened.
-Dr. Seuss

2011 Dona Nobis Pacem

We aren't very creative but we are joining in with our peace globe for this year.

Purrs & peace to all our friends....

Forever Friday

Our human is not disposable. She may have imperfections, may have health problems, and be a lot of work. But when I got her, I promised her a forever home. No matter what her faults are, she is good at something, and deserves to be loved and have a forever home. She is not only my human, she is my family. Re-post this if you're a responsible human owner.

Jade, Myst, Blackie & Cocoa

We remember 09/11/2011

We think Alan Jackson did excellent job with this song. Hopefully, we will never see a repeat of the tragic events anywhere in the world - we do hope that everyone remembers what happened when the world changed not only for us in USA but truly the entire world was changed as well on that September day.

In Memory Of Cathy (Beau's Mom)

Words can express how much Cathy will be missed. Her sister posted the sad news on facebook that Cathy had passed after being very sick the last few weeks. The news was quite unexpected and we would like to send out purrs to Beau, Cathy's family as well as all of our cat blogosphere family.

Thanks to Cat Blogosphere for the image of Beau.