On Friday last week we returned from watching the Rugby World Cup Fireworks at Auckland Harbour, which I didn't enjoy as I was seasick and the gastro problems had started. We got back home at 9.30pm and as usual opened the garage to let the animals run out and greet us. I told Bluebell off as she was getting too close to the other car, but didnt see Bagpuss cross the drive. A yell alerted me that Bagpuss had been knocked down in the drive by our Ute, which was only travelling at about 3kms/hr. However Utes and thin elderly cats dont mix well and it is with intense regret and pain that I recall those final few moments. Bagpuss had been hit on his chin and was a bit bloody, but he lie prone and inert on the drive, but more telling his bowels were relaxing and urine pouring down the drive, a sign that he had passed. I feel utterly bereft and lost without his happy cat moods and demands, the way he constantly miaowed for food and yet was still happy to sleep on my lap all day. Not bad for a 19 and a half year old companion. He was getting old, and quite thin, and his hair was thinning also, but he was my trusted companion since he was a kitten in 1993. He has moved house about 10 times, and each time adapted to his new home, he moved from the UK to NZ with us in 2004, at considerable cost, but he was worth it! He will always be like a child to me, as I have looked after him when he was poorly, fed him, cleaned him, shopped for him, cooked for him (dont ask!), provided shelter, warmth and security and hopefully a nice life.
He was interred at the Albany Pets garden of remembrance, where he lies in a secluded valley filled with shrubs and flowers and hopefully will find rest there. Baggy 01/03/1993-10/09/2011.
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