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Forever
Luna
I adopted a siamese cat in 1995. I named him Luna and he became my constant buddy.
He would follow me everywhere. If I was watching tv he was on the couch with
me, if I was taking a shower he was sitting on the toilet waiting for me to get
out. He would sleep under the covers with me every night. I know it sounds stupid
but when I had problems I would just cuddle with him and it seemed to make everything
all better. He was my constant thing in life that I knew I could depend on.
I moved into my own apartment in August 2004 and then in January I realized he
was very skinny. The vet diagnosed him with cancer. It was too far along to treat
it but he didn't seem to be in any pain so I couldn't put him down yet. I knew
it was going to be the hardest thing I ever had to do, he was my best friend.
He seemed fine until April when he started to wheeze and I knew it was time.
It was 11 pm when I took him for an emergency euth. I buried him the next day
at my grandmothers where we had spent 10 years together, under a bleeding heart
bush. Later that day I bought a bracelet with a heart charm and had it engraved
with "Luna 4-9-05"
I went to the humane society two days later to look at dogs, even though I had
no intention of adopting another pet so soon. I had to walk past the cat cages
to get to the dog kennel and this little calico looked me in the eyes and meowed.
I thought she was cute but kept walking. I went to visit my gramma after and
told her about what the cat did. When she went back with me later that day to
look at a dog I thought she would like, the same cat reached out and hit me with
her paw when we walked by. I stopped and petted her and told my gramma this was
the cat I was telling her about.
Out of curiosity I looked at her card to see what her name was. I grabbed my
gramma's arm and stood there in kind of a shock when it said that cat's name
was Luna. I couldn't believe it... needless to say she came home with me that
day. It was like some sort of sign or something, I think... we've settled in
nicely together and I renamed her Mushu. The weird thing is that she does a lot
of the same things Luna did- from following me everywhere to being right there
waiting for me to get out of the shower. It makes me sad and I still cry sometimes
when she really reminds me of him. I miss Luna and always will but I think that
Mushu was supposed to find me.
I guess this isn't that interesting or amazing to you but may be very coincidental.
But to me, this is amazing. Mushu won't take the place of Luna but maybe just
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The Infinite Cat Project
Presented by Mike Stanfill, Private Hand
Illustration,
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