Losing A Pet

My goodness, my past few posts seem to be on some pretty heavy and probably depressing topics.  So sorry about that readers! Hopefully things will calm down a little-bit in my life so I can get a breather.

 This post is a farewell to a beloved family pet, who is also my Blogger Profile picture.  Angel Eyes was a beautiful Himalayan pure bred cat with a petite body, stunning blue eyes, and the most adorable little mouth.  Seriously... she was cute. 

She was a gift from a woman who had to move out of town and was contemplating putting her to sleep because no one wanted her.  So my family and I adopted her.  At first she was very frightened of everyone and we quickly realized that she had suffered abuse in her previous home.  But with a lot of love and support from all of us she soon blossomed into quite the happy cat. 

As the years went by she became ill with diabetes and most recently, we suspect, cancer.  The vet told us her time was near due to health complications and offered to put her to sleep.  But we just couldn't do it.  And Angel, I believe, was grateful to be at home when she passed on. 

She was surrounded by loving family almost round the clock in her final days.

 

We will miss little Angel Eyes.  My brother buried her in our backyard.  We all bid her farewell.  My mother took her death very hard.

And then, the very same evening, a surprise.

A little lost kitten was sitting at the steps of our back porch, wailing and crying.   He is, at most, just a few weeks old.  There are many fields and farms around our neighborhood so it might have been born in any one of them.  But how he found his way to our back door we will never know.  Perhaps God gave the little guy a nudge in our direction. It was just too much of a coincidence.

Little kitten came back the next day and the next so we took him in and checked to see if anyone lost a kitten recently.  No word.  So we gave him a name, Tiger.  He is the sweetest, most gentle kitty.  We love him already.

Lord,  you knew our hearts were sad

and you gave us a reason to smile again.
Thank you for the precious gift. 

" He fills my life with good things. My youth is restored like the eagle's!" ~ Psalm 103:5