I lost my little black cat today... [View all]

Izzie, who made it the very ripe old age of 23 last month, died this morning. She was one of a kind... attitude in a very small package. She was a Japanese Bobtail, and so we gave her the name Izanami (after a Japanese Goddess). And Goddess, she was. Izzie, despite never weighing more than 8 pounds, ruled a house filled with other cats and dogs. No one messed with her. They respected her! (LOL)

I knew the last couple of days the end was coming, and last night when she came to bed, she crawled up on my chest and spent most of the night sleeping there. I woke up once and thought I'd lost her, but she moved her head to let me know she was still with me. Sometime after I went back to sleep, she left us. I know she made it to breakfast, cause hubs said he fed her. I think it was shortly afterwards she died.

I'm grateful to have spent most of the night with her on my chest, and my hands stroking her, loving her close to me. There's a great big hole today, tho. How strange, for such a tiny cat...

Until that time I meet her on the Rainbow Bridge, I'll miss her every day...