Goodbye Sweet Nina 1997 - 2009

My sweet Nina is gone, and the house feels reduced with her loss.  She was the funny cat, the talkative cat, the clumsy cat, the dog cat.  She wanted to break the bonds of her indoor-cathood and get outside only to eat grass.  She adored P. and followed him around.  She was always gentle, unless you had a treat in your fingers.

 

She came from the Humane Society in New York City, and lived with me in Manhattan until I got it into my head to move to New Mexico to be with P.  She loved the hummingbirds in summer in New Mexico, and loved P. even more.  In the mornings, if we hadn't fed her yet, she would run back and forth across the headboard of our bed.  She came with us to Cambridge and then East Lansing where she discovered she had a taste for cobwebs.



I wish her last day could have been warm with all the promise of spring, but we received another snowstorm last night, and a few inches of snow are now carpeting the lawn outside the window near her favorite chair.  She did get to come home for a few hours today, and purred and napped in the sun. 



Next week we should get her ashes back, but I won't have the heart to part with them.  Outside the window near her favorite chair P. and I hope to plant a memorial garden for her - we want to make the view from her favorite chair a beautiful one, with plants that cats love, and flowers to attract hummingbirds.

I know we made the right decision, I just wish it didn't have to be made for several more years.

Goodbye my sweet Nina. We love you.