Sweet Little Kagome has gone back to the Cosmos..... :=(

MagickMuffin

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Mon Jul-28-08 10:17 PM
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Sweet Little Kagome has gone back to the Cosmos..... :=(

My Sweet Little Kagome died within a week of Casper. I have been devastated by her passing and have been unable to post this here. She was only a little over a year old.

You see she was a very special kitty. She was a feral kitty and I was able to tame her and her brother, Inuyasha and sister, Sango, however, I had been feeding them while their mother was still nursing them and I picked up Kagome one day and mama kitty took them away for a week and a half. When they returned Kagome was near death.

Because of this she was born with some kind of ailments that I tried so hard to fix. I was able to help fix her ears which had become infected and bent downward, I was able to pull the scabs off them and they began to stand upright again. Then she had a problem with her losing fur. I called a vet who suggested putting antibiotic ointment on the troublesome spots and that seemed to work. She also had goopy eyes that I would clean almost daily.

There were several times we thought Kagome wouldn't make it. But she began to show great signs of improvements.

I crocheted a couple of blue and purple rope strings for them to play with, Kagome preferred the blue one and I would hold it while she chased it around. We also made them a Jungle Jim that they loved to climb on. We have a lattice wall that is about 10' tall, Inuyasha and Kagome loved to climb on it as well. They also loved to climb up to our roof and chase each other around. We could hear them whenever we were inside and they were up there.

One time when I went out to check on them they had killed a squirrel and were eating it. Poor squirrel was halfway eaten before I had gone out. I called on my hubby to check it out and he thought that perhaps they had found it that way, but on further inspection we believe they had eaten down to its torso. They ate every bit of it. Very bizarre.

Eventually I got them trained enough that we let them come into our home. Inuyasha and Sango kept growing, however, Kagome always remained kittenish.

After becoming indoor kitties, I had some Alien ET's that I tied a fishing line to and we would play chase the Alien. Kagome was very good and quick. One of the Aliens lost its head, so we played chase the headless Alien. This all took place inside my art studio and laundry room.

Around Memorial day Kagome started showing signs of not eating. I started feeding her with a dropper and giving her water. Even though we didn't have the money we took her to the vet. He gave her an antibiotic shot and gave us some medicine to give her. She started improving within the week. We set up a recovery room for her in our bathroom. She loved the attention!

We had to go to the Texas Democratic Convention from June 5-8, I was a Delegate for Obama. We left plenty of food and water. When we returned everyone seemed just fine.

Kagome kept eating whatever we allowed her to have, and she continued to get special treatment. Our living area has a doorway that can be shut off from our bedrooms, so Kagome got Special Privileges and was allowed in the back part of the house.

She started sleeping with us and she loved it. Whenever I had to go to the bathroom she was always there. She would usually go to her litterbox and then come over to me to check out what I was doing. It was really hurtful when she tried to climb up in my lap, as her claws were sharp as razors. So to avoid the pain I would pick her up and place her on my lap.

She loved to give me nose nibbles. She also loved to sleep with us. One of our other kitties Kilala even became a good companion to Kagome. Even tho Kilala would hiss at her, Kilala loved to give Kagome kisses, as did her brother and sister. Everyone loved to kiss on Kagome.

Then one week to the day of Casper dying Kagome died. She wasn't eating and she couldn't even lick the water I tried to give her with the dropper. She had a bowel movement that got stuck and we had to remove it for her. At this point she lost the ability to stand, and we suspected a stroke or seizure. Hubby started to do research when I told him that I thought she was dying. Her breathing had become very slow and she couldn't stand up or raise her head. I held her in my lap for several hours and then we laid her on the floor. Sango and Inuyasha came over and said their goodbyes.
We watched her having convulsions and decided to call the vet to take her in, but by the time he returned our call she had gone.

This was around 5:00 on the morning of July 4th. We fixed her a box and buried her under my bedroom window. Later that evening we watched the firework show from our street. I guess it was a good send off for my Sweet Little Kagome.

Unfortunately, we didn't let Kilala see Kagome's body (we have always done this in the past whenever one of our cats had died) but we were traumatized and weren't thinking straight. For a couple of weeks Kilala kept looking for Kagome and even voiced her concerns over what happened to her dear little friend.

I apologize for the long story, but this is the first time I have been able to write about her.
I have tears in my eyes right now from missing my littlest baby. I miss her so MUCH.

My heart aches for Kagome
My heart breaks for Kagome
Why did she have to go away
Will she ever come back to stay
My Sweet Little Kagome

I kept asking the Cosmos to return her to me. This has been done before with another cat I lost before. Hopefully "they" will bring us back together soon.

Here are a couple pics of Kagome. The first one is when she was still an outside kitty. The bottom one was after she had been allowed to live inside.