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Saturday, July 09, 2011
Happy Tempiversary!
I couldn't let the day go by without writing something. Six years ago yesterday Darkstar brought home what would become my best friend and confidante and I need to wish him a Happy Tempiversary!
Six years ago Darkstar was at work and it was raining like crazy. For some reason he discovered some cats drowning in a drainage ditch outside of his job. The mother rescued one kitten and took off, leaving two stuck. He managed to save them both and they spent the rest of the day with him at work in a box with warm blankets and food he sent the stock guy out to get.
One was black and white and looked like my first cat Claude and the other was grey and white. The black and white was healthy and ready to rock, when he brought them home I took her out of the box and ZING, she was off and running and hiding behind the fridge. The grey guy was in bad shape. He had been stuck under the fence in the ditch and was sliced open on his side, had a deep gash on his head and had been deprived of oxygen for a few while he was stuck.
Luckily for us we knew good people who love cats, Bob immediately rose to the occasion and offered to take one of the kittens. This was a good thing, we knew whichever one we picked would have a safe and loving home.
I initially wanted to keep the girl because she looked like Claude but Darkstar convinced me to keep the boy and I agreed. I was home all day, I could take care of the little guy.
They were young, they were estimated to be about 5 weeks old and ours was in really dire shape. We immediately moved the mattress off of the guest bed and stuck it in the middle of the living room and that's where I slept for the next three months.
He needed to be bottle-fed. He needed three different medications two and three times a day. He made himself a home inside a cat condo we had and he would teeter out to use the little litterbox we had there and he would topple over in pain, breaking my heart with every step.. I would hold him and purr into his fur and lick his head like I thought a mother cat would do. Claudie was amazing, he immediately took to the little guy and would lick him and lay by him.
Slowly he began to heal and eventually he was well enough to wander around the living room. He found a hidey spot under and when he poked his head out he looked like a rat so he was named Templeton the Rat Cat after Paul Lynde's Templeton from Charlotte's Web. His head had a permanent tilt to one side the vet said was from being deprived of oxygen. We were told he would "never jump" and "never be graceful."
Seven months later Claudie died and I thought my world was ending. My first cat, my first love and my best friend of 10 years. I had never lost a pet that was truly mine and I wasn't prepared for the severity of the loss and what it did to me. I'm not sure I would have made it through without Tempy, I spent a lot of time crying on soft grey fur. He would walk around and look at the places Claude used to sleep and he would start yowling for him which would immediately send me into hysterics. We got each other through that time.
In the six years I've had Tempy he's been there for the loss of Claude and The Great Catsby. He was there for me when my father got sick. He got me through 8 weeks in the hospital looking at his pictures and wanting to go home to my Tempy. He got me through my father's death and continues to do so when I feel the tears coming on. He loves me like no one else and doesn't care when his fur gets soaked, I think he understands.
Six years later the vet was wrong. He jumps like a pro, he's graceful as any cat and he loves being up high. His head still tilts but that only makes him cuter. He's spoiled rotten and the others all know he is the Alpha in the house. He knows all my secrets, has seen me at my best and my worst, never judges me and doesn't care if I'm sitting next to him throwing my brains up.
Thank you for six years of being my cat, Templeton. Here's to the next six and the next after that!
Tempy when he first came to us, sick and tiny:
Tempy and Claude, the original "Evils":
Tempy today. Fat, happy and loved:
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He looks like a lighter version of the Psychokitty
He gets crunchy treats for his anniversary, right?
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