Our man Pricken

Fia died almost one month ago.
Not having her in my life has been difficult. :(


There are still cats around here, though.

"Fisan", my landlords cat is still around, but she's a real original!
She want to cuddle, but all of a sudden she bite or claw you!
I don't trust her. :)


And then we have a very special boy that we named "Pricken" (Spot).






He was most likely abandoned when he was not kitten enough or fun enough for some stupid ape family kid & thrown out a car! (There was a newsalert about a cardboardbox at the side of the road near here, which had held an animal inside it, but had made hole to escape it).
Was it  him? He definitely knew about people, though.

He regulary came to our yard after Missy died (the Queen of our garden) summer 2020.
She was fierce & held off any invader, until she was run over by a car just outside our door... :(
Missy was my landlord's cat, but she was so sweet & hanged out with me so much i thought her as my family.


We gave him food & he returned everyday. He knew about humans, but not enough trusting us now.
If he had been born wild, he wouldn't act like he was doing when we spoke to him & approached him.
He did not trust us enough, so he ran away if we got too close.


He was absolutely abandoned!
We captured him in a trap december 2020.

We guess he was around 3 years old when we captured him.


Sadly, he had to be an outdoor cat, because my landlord is stupid!
Pricken could not move into my house because Fia was so aggressive towards other cats...
Personally, i'd never let a cat run wild. (They're an invasive species!)




Pricken turned out to be very friendly after he adjusted to his new home.
I love him. He is now part of my family. I care very much about him.

Yet, he is an outdoor cat & my landlords house is what he call home, and there's no Indoorcats in that household because my landlord is old fashioned (he's just 1 year older than me).... /sigh



Today... Today was a heavy day.
Pricken have a GPS around his neck so we can track him live.

At around 10-11:00 this morning it stopped moving.
I was asleep to 17:00 today because i was so drunk this friday night... So i didn't know.

Me & my mom went out and got out there towards where the GPS was transmitting, which was still Live.

Barely 100 meters away from his home, i crawled up into som thorny bushes, just 2 meter away from the gravelroad we use everyday, i found the GPS & patches of his black and white furr laying around it!

.... 

.............


My first thought?
A bigger predator took him!

I could not see any other furr other than his around the site!

He DOES fight neighbouring cats regularly but i found it odd that there were no other furr there.
I think he got his arse kicked!

This knowledge + not checking in for 10 hours, as he alwasys come home every 2-3 hours, i expected the worst.

I got out every hour this evening, calling his name, wanting him to show up, but, nothing. :(



3 hours ago i heard a thump.
I instantly went up & opened the door.

Yep, there he was!
He had been sleeping at the roof of my house!
Yeah, we know Missy did go up there to sleep & Pricken did that too, but we actually checked earlier in the evening if he could of been there, but he was not!

So he went up there afterwards!
Not sure WHY he would do that before having dinner? (No, a mouse is not dinner)


I think he got his arse kicked by a neighbouring cat and got depressed. (They probably had a "stare contest for hours).



I am so glad i heard him jump down from my roof & i embraced him when he came to me! :D
He's safe now!


Gosh, i wish i didn't need to worry whenever he go out...

Fia is gone

June 16, 02:20, middle of the night, Fia died.

I was with her at her end. :(

She was the last one.

My last feline family member. She was born June 2007.

Fia 2 months ago

I have a difficult time realizing that she is really gone...
Her litterbox & where she used to eat are still here.



Her final restingplace is 4 meters away from where i type this.
I see her every day. :(



Fia was the most cuddly one of them all.
She always snuggled, being up your face, booping & talking!

And as soon i got into bed she would come up & make herself comfortable between my legs or up my face!

Now,... Nothing!



My life is so empty now.
I've had cats & dogs throughout my whole life, and now, none!

Fia, 3 years old.

I miss her so much! :(

Freddy, the last sibling is no more.

16 years & 4 month ago, 5 sibling felines were born in our closet. Their mother was named Xena/Zeena.
She was a middrange longhaired standard farmersbreed of a cat,. The father was shorthaired farmerscat. The typical kind with an M /W on the forehead.

Her babies was not longhaired, nore short, but somewhere in between. They were fluffier than standard shorthaired cats, but still retained that well-knowned catface most know, but with their own personality to it. Noone is the same.

We named them Bam, Elis, Freddy, Rufus & Sussie. 

Two were very dark brown with a pattern (Rufus & Elis) some would call them black.
One was Grey with dark stripes (Bam), and Sussie & Freddy had lighter grey colouring with blackstripes and white socks.

Yesterday..  Yesterday was the last day of the last sibling.

His condition had been deteriorating over the last 2 weeks and i was suspecting the worst, but i was hopeful he would come out of it. 

But yet, i did know he was an old man. 


Freddy died in his sleep an hour before midnight the 6th of september.



I never had a "pet" live this long before.

He was with me a third of my life.

He & his sibings, they were born here. They are family! 

He never put out a claw! He was the sweetest being i ever knew! :(

Freddy at his prime, around 2014-15.

Now, we still have Fia. She's 13 years old, but still people think she's a kitten. 

I wish it was all over though. 
This grief ... is tearing me apart. 

He was the last one. :( I understand his death more than any of the others though, as he was the elder one.

A respectable age of 16 and a half & I'm so glad he was a part of my life for so long. 

But i'll never get a "pet" again!


When Fia is gone, i am done! :(



Freddy, i know you will sleep well. I tucked you in well at your final restingplace with pine tree branches as your final restingplace.



I'll miss you to the very last day i live. 

Missy, the queen of the garden is dead.

Missy, the queen of this garden, is dead. Her life was stolen and thrown away today.

One of the sweetest felines i have ever known, and one i befriended when i moved here 4 years ago  got run over by a maildeliverycar, 1 meter from our yard! Literally just outside the main enterance!

She was family to me & a good friend.
She was the sunshine over here, someone that always cheered me up, looked me up when i was outside, play, cuddle, follow me around, but now she's gone, runned over by a stressed ape trying to finish his rounds.

This is a little street, 150 meters,  gravel, outside town. Noone drives fast here, exept the postcars.


Not sure what i would do to that person if i found out who it was!



Never thought this would happen here, not Missy. But it did. :(



She was my landlords cat but she felt like she was my own.

Missy's daughter also got run over by a car summer 2017, but on the main road outside where they drive much faster.


I do not know her real age, but i think she was around 12 year old.
I will miss her, incredibly! It won't be the same here anymore without her. I can't stop crying.


I dug her grave beside her daughter Nasse, and our own Sussie & Rufus.

I will always remember you, Missy.  Love you.

Personally, i'd NEVER let a cat to be an outdoor cat like this.

She won't be here tomorrow to greet me...

Farewell, Rufus.

Today we lost Rufus. After an illness that came suddenly, his lifespark faded quickly and he left us after just one night of sickness.

His 14th birthday is May 14th.

He was that big black cat that never really got stuck properly on a photograph.

His kindness to all was astonishing. You could not provoke him. I have no memories of him being angry, at all, except when Fia trying to seduce him. He's got his balls chopped off, so, he was not really interested. :)

He always greeeted you when you came home, stood up from the chair, tail up, eyecontact to meet you, and an uplifting vocalization. He was almost ever present around you, unless he was sleeping.

He was no lapcat. Nuhu... You could barely lift him up either. He was not comfortable at all being lifted, and kept on tripping backwards when you tried to. :)
No, he came when he wanted, and it was often, when you sat at a table, the desk at my computer. Then he sat beside you, and wanted to headbob you constantly. He was so sweet.

I have cried so much today and i really am trying to keep them away now, cause i am so sore around my eyes by now...

He was the third of the four siblings that has died now. Freddy is left with us, and Fia, but she's not from the same mother. Freddy, he's acting like he's still 5 or 6. Very health, active and more clever than any of them. I'm betting he is one of those that just falls down dead suddenly while running and smiling when he is 20. :)


Here's Rufus, probably around 6 years ago, on the balcony.

Rest now, my boy. Sleep. You will always be with me in my heart.

Rest now, Sussie.

Today we lost a member of our family, Sussie. She quickly fell ill and stopped breathing about an hour ago.

I did not excpect this to happen a week ago. :(
She's a sibling to Bam, who died in 2013 at barely 9 years old, Sussie got to the age 13 and a half.

Sussie was a very small girl, probably because the guys in the family Bam and Rufus hogged most of the food early on, so she stayed pretty small, and slender.

She was so pretty, but with a serious face and sort of bossy in her early years.
Sussie was not my cat, i was her servant. :)
I gave her a nickname early on, "Strumpan", meaning "Sock" as she kept on diving into shoes & use them as toys. :)

I will miss her immensely. She and her siblings all got born in my apartment, so, i felt like a parent to them, and they've seen us from the very start of their lives. They sure have been the most unique cats i've been around. Rufus, Freddy and Fia is still around for us today and hopefully a lot longer.

Even though we have those 3 with us still, it will feel empty now when she's gone...



Forever lost, but not in my heart, as long as i can remember, you will never be forgotten.
I love you Sussie.

Sussie

20040514 - 20171003

Bam

My dear, dear Bam. Too soon were you taken away from us, leaving us all with great sadness.
You will be with us in our thoughts.

Always


Bam, the gentle giant.
May 14 2004 - April 22 2013