Calico, The Patchwork Cat

C a l i c o

T h e

P a t c h w o r k

C a t

Many years ago, an itty-bitty calico kitty found her way into our barn - and into our hearts. She stayed with us for 15 years - until it was time for her to go on ahead.

My young nephew said she had so many colors, she looked like a quilt; one color next to another color next to another. Thus...The Patchwork Cat.

Calico lived before today's infectious feline diseases existed. She lived during a safer, kinder time and didn't have the outdoor dangers that are present today.

So having been born a feral kitty, her greatest joy was to be Country Cat...surveying and hunting... always within the boundaries of her property...and then to stay indoors and cuddle with her people. The best of both worlds.

She was the self appointed guardian of our home...

...always making the rounds of her territory from the safety of the top of the fence. She would follow the fences all the way around, checking on "her" horses until...

...she would let us know all was well and she had everything under control.

We were privileged to be owned by Calico.

She was smart and clever and loving and funny.

She defined her role in life and never wavered from her perceived responsibilities.

She was my very special companion who saw me through my childhood and young adulthood.

Calico...my sweet patchwork cat.

Poem For Cats

And God asked the feline spirit
Are you ready to come home?
Oh, yes, quite so, replied the precious soul
And, as a cat, you know I am most able
To decide anything for myself.

Are you coming then? asked God.
Soon, replied the whiskered angel
But I must come slowly
For my human friends are troubled
For you see, they need me, quite certainly.

But don't they understand? asked God
That you'll never leave them?
That your souls are intertwined. For all eternity?
That nothing is created or destroyed?
It just is....forever and ever and ever.

Eventually they will understand,
Replied the glorious cat
For I will whisper into their hearts
That I am always with them
I just am....forever and ever and ever.

Author Unknown

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