Last Will and Testament of a Cat

Booktigger · 21-03-2006, 12:26 AM

This was in my local CP's newsletter, and thought I would share for people who think they are betraying their cat's memory by adopting another cat - you might want to get a tissue though.
I too, would make a will
if I could write.
To some poor, wistful, lonely
stray I leave my happy home.
My dish, my cosy bed
my cushioned chair, my toy.
The well-loved lap
The gently stroking hand
The loving voice
The place I made in someone's heart.
The love, that at the last,
Could help me to a peaceful, painless end
Held in loving arms
If I should die
Oh, do not say:
'No more a pet I'll have
To grieve me by its loss'
Seek out a lonely, unloved cat
And give my place to him.
This is my legacy
The love I leave behind
Tis all I have to give
Margaret Trowton

Fran · 21-03-2006, 12:28 AM

Very very moving

but lovely. Thank you for sharing x

Moli · 21-03-2006, 12:29 AM

So Sad!! But so nice as well!

Mags · 21-03-2006, 12:31 AM

So touching and so nice!

yola · 21-03-2006, 10:34 AM

That's beautiful. Thanks for posting that, I may lift that for publication in my local CP newsletter with your permission . . .

Julie84 · 21-03-2006, 12:56 PM

That is beautiful.

Donna · 21-03-2006, 07:38 PM

That is very moving.

dandysmom · 21-03-2006, 10:52 PM

That made me cry...so beautiful; thank you for sharing it. I have always gotten another cat after I lost one; no disrespect to the one who was gone; I just had enough love to share with someone else...the new cat isn't or never can be, a replacement, it's a new friend to love, and to love me...and I cannot imagine coming home to an empty house without a cat...

Booktigger · 21-03-2006, 11:15 PM

Yola - feel free, it was lifted off my local CP newsletter.
DM - I am the same, my friend tried to tell me I couldn't have loved my first cat if I could get another the day after, but I live on my own, and I hated coming home to an empty house - agreeing to see a cat a couple of hours after coming back from having one pts was hard though, but I was told that Snowy wouldn't have minded. I find it helps with grieving if I have a new cat to focus on, they are never replacements, but if I have the love to give, then it is better used on a cat that truly needs it, and I don't think any of mine would mind.

dandysmom · 22-03-2006, 03:21 AM

Exactly the way I feel, Booktigger!. I had the same sort of friend (?) who said that to me after my Aby, Sultan, had to be PTS, and the next day I got my Patches, the tortie...she needed a home...I needed someone to help take the edges off my sorrow...she's been with me for years, she's 20 now & aging terribly...but when she does go, there will be another one out there who needs a loving home...another friend, whose Persian died of cancer said he'd never put himself through that pain again...I find thast hard tp understand...well, toeach his own...

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