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Spook (2008-2022)
Miss Nosy, most beloved scaredycat with your hopeful purrs and your question mark tail Cardboard confetti maker Expert bug catcher Faithful shadow Purry void in the night sweet little owl, I'm so glad it was me who got to be your person
Ponyita vs butterfly machine, with Spook as spectator
time with my Spook kitty grows short and I wish all this pre-grief would help but I know I'll still be just as destroyed
Your work has stayed so close to my heart for all these years. It does me good to see you well, so I'm very sorry to find you grieving. All my love to you- and your very lovely cat.
thank you. We've buried her today. I hope Ponyo will pick up the slack and start to come on my bed to purr me to sleep.
My sincerest condolences for your loss. She was a beautiful lady and the way you wrote of her painted a vivid picture of her in my mind as a sweet, sweet girl. What a considerable, loved life she's led with you! Thank you for sharing a glimpse of her with us.
Thank you. I always felt that Tijg could have been anybody's cat - I am just very glad he got to be mine. Spook though, with all her weird anxieties and lifelong fears - it is beyond lucky that we found eachother and that I could understand and accommodate so much of her. Heart-cat. Here she is taking a break from a confetti session.
We have catlap!
Also Spook is starting to regain her voice a little. I wish she'd understand that if she stopped trying to make sound it would recovery faster, but I'll take it. It's a relief to hear her.
I am a long way from being over missing Tijg, but I also knew very quickly that Spook wouldn't do well as only cat and that I wouldn't do well with Spook being an only cat either. She adores me but her style of affection is often from an arms length away. Enter Leo.
7 months old, described by his foster mum as 'super social and keen to cuddle with both people and cats'. He's been here since tuesday, and Spook's hissiness has gone from from a 10 to about a 3 - he still startles her sometimes or gets a bit too pushy, but they've been allowed in the same space since last night (without food or me actively managing attention) and his campaign to win her over is gaining ground quickly. This evening his approach was to sneak onto a far corner of the big heat pad, sit very nonchalantly with his back to Spook until she stopped grumbling, and then settling down there. Spook was always keen to cuddle with Tijg, who was not into it, so I'm pretty confident that given some more time, Leo will get his way.
(inching closer while going ‘let me love youuuuuu’)
it’s not that I have a lot on my plate, it’s that my plate is one of those shitty paper saucers without an edge to speak of, and the only thing on there right now is ‘Spook is sick and I’m afraid to lose her too’ and that occupies 99% of my spoon power.
