Good evening everyone,
It is with great sadness that I report that the stray cat that my family had adopted was hit and killed by a car today while trying to come home.
She had bolted out the door when company came to visit this morning and we were confident that within a half hour or so she would be back, crying to be let in (this is what she would always do when she wanted in. That or climb the windowscreens.)
Shadowfax was a very pretty little girl with long white hair and piercing eyes.
Our house was built in 1860 along the main street in town which is unfortunately VERY busy. I found her in the middle of the road facing the house and can only assume that she was on her way home to us and never made it. Just 30 more feet and she would be on my lap now.
Please take a moment today to hug your cat, dog, or other furry friends and cherish every single moment that you have with them. You'll never realize how huge a part of your life that they really are until they're gone.
Shadow fax went from being a starving, frozen stray that came to sit in front of my store one night to a spoiled-rotten princess that slept on my couch. We will always miss her and only hope that wherever she is now, they have an unlimited supply of toys, food and good upholstery for her to lounge on forever.
I leave you with these thoughts:
"Dost thou cherish life?
Then do not squander time
for it is the thing life is made of."
- Benjamin Franklin
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