R.I.P. March 17, 1996-September 13, 2011

When we got back from our summer in Oregon, we noticed how skinny and frail looking Mowgli had become. Garry said he was super skinny when he got back. He figured his teeth were getting bad and so he switched him from regular cat food to the kind in a can. We were hoping that would help him gain some weight.  Well, it didn't and he just went downhill from there.  Pretty soon he would only eat the gravy out of the cans and not the actual wet food.  Last Friday, he stopped eating all together and would just drink and lay around.  As the weekend went along, it was increasingly hard for him to walk.  The first available appointment to put him down was this morning.  Talon stayed home from work all day yesterday to help with him because I started preschool.  Talon would take him and put him in the litter box and then take him out because he didn't have enough energy to get in by himself.  The only time he would wake up and meow was when he needed to use it.  Last night he crawled under our bed and we thought he might not make it through the night.  He did and at 8 am. this morning, Garry took him to the vet.  He has been a wonderful cat and we all had a teary weekend as we knew it was our last with our beloved Mowgli.

He was:

• funny
• adorable
• cuddly
• always purring
• a fraidy cat
• gentle
• well groomed
• well mannered

He brought much joy into our lives, we would often laugh and talk to Mowgli.  He was always there to greet us after we returned from a vacation.  He slept curled at my feet for many years.  He always wanted to be in a room where the majority of us were and he always greeted company and strangers by loving on them to death. 

Oh how we will miss you, but we all know that you are in a better place!