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Scruffy
It
is now 4 months since I lost my beautiful Scruffy… She is a tuxedo and
graceful and velvety - I would call her Velvet, Fluffy Scruffy because
her fur was getting fluffy from the raw food diet, Black Beauty. She
was very playful although I didn’t play with her a lot since she
stayed on the 3rd floor for a long time with one of the men who lives
in the church-owned building. I would feed her on the landing and
clean her boxes. She had a habit of peeing outside the box so I
cleaned after her and got her on homeopathy which helped her.
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She
wasn’t afraid of homeless cats that found their way in our house or
outside the house, or even in the warehouse where she stayed for a few
weeks - but she was afraid of May, until eventually when May became
more gentle, they stayed at a distance. Scruffy was very talkative,
she greeted everyone who came home, though most ignored her, except
me. I would hold her in my lap and scratch her temples, which she
liked, or let her sit/sleep on my chest on the couch, and she purred,
kneaded, and drooled in ecstasy. She was a happy cat, tail always
straight in the air, even though more and more it was lonely for her
at our house - we work late hours and fewer people were there anymore.
She
liked to eat grass outside but only for a few minutes then she would
run back in the house, afraid to be locked out in that neighborhood. I
wonder if she got fleas that way... We had a tuxedo kitten for a
couple months there who used to play with Scruffy and most didn’t
realize there were 2 tuxedo cats there, plus May, they wouldn’t have
wanted 3 cats in the house. The kitten used to bite Scruffy in play
and Scruffy would yell. I used to squeeze her and she would let out a
squeaky noise. She is very gentle, never bit or scratched me. I really
miss her presence when I come home and in the basement, she slept in
almost every area of the basement. There is so much more I want to
say…
Thanks. Carrie |
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Revised
April 2, 2004