Felidless

It's ironic that the title of my blog is Felids and I am now felidless. Felids is the scientific name for the family of cats. I picked up that name from my first 'chat' site, Tabby Talk, which was on Prodigy years go (in the age of dial up modems). That was how we on the site referred to our kitties. The name stuck here with us and for 20 years, everything revolved around 'The Felids". On July 23rd of this year, our last of 6 felids, Shadow passed away. He had came to us as a 8 week old kitten and lived a long and full 19 1/2 years with us. It was still too short. Our hearts are broken.

Now our home is empty of pets. It's a bit sad and lonely, but at times freeing not to worry about some furry creature. Have they be fed, are they safe, are they sick do we need food. We can come and go as we please and not think about it. We can leave doors and gates open and not worry about them escaping.

But when we do come home, there is nothing to greet us. No meowing to be fed, no rubbing of bags or around legs in a greeting. No soft warm fuzzy thing next to us on the couch or chair when we watch TV. Nothing climbing on our laptops as we browse. Nothing on my pillow purring as I fall asleep.

I know one day we will get another pet. We are still in mourning and I'm not sure it would be fair to another pet to come here now to be a replacement. But someday.....