Friday, January 9, 2009

Emmy we'll all miss you

Patti said good-bye to a great friend yesterday when she put her cat Emmy to sleep. It was a difficult decision, but a very necessary one.

Patti found Emmy as a wee kitten in a parking lot outside a Palatine bar more than 18 years ago. This was shortly after Patti moved out of our house and into her own apartment. So, of course, Patti scooped her up and took her home to her apartment as a companion to her cat Mariah.
Patti loves and takes good care of her sweet kitties. Mariah was a birthday gift for Patti when she turned 13 and was Patti's best friend for more than nineteen years.

Emmy was a petite and sweet kitty that Kevin affectionately called "Hairball."

Emmy is not the only kitten Patti found and brougt home. When she was a young child, Patti found an orange and white kitten that she brought into the house and locked herself and the cat in the bathroom until I got home because Mike said she couldn't keep him. We kept Butterscotch.

Then years later, after leaving our house to go home one rainy night she found a little white kitten playing alongside Sanders Rd. Of course she scooped him up and turned around bringing him here because she couldn't leave him by the road. I loved that beautiful blue-eyed deaf cat. We named him Boris.

These are just a few of the wonderful kitties and purrs in our the houses throughout the years.