"Possom" In Memorium

I know it's been a while since I've posted... I'm working hard on my new website.. hopefully it will see light of day sometime soon... any that's not what this post is about...

About 5 weeks ago we took on a new addition to our household.. a little kitten called Possom.. Named after a famous New Zealand rally driver, the late "Possom Bourne"... she even had a racing strip up her head!

Here she is.. not long after we got her home.. she was extremely inquisitive and very very fast!!!!.. and loved to climb!

It didn't take too long for her to settle in... and was soon making herself comfy and at home with us.



Here she is ... sitting on the couch... she was a funny chick... she'd go to sleep literally anywhere - just plop herself down.... some of her favourite things to do included climbing up our legs and bodies to our shoulders while we washed her food bowl and prepared her food!... sweet but always left scratches in our legs... she had a tinkly ball that she loved to bat from one end of the house to the other and a fluffy faux mouse that was a real favourite I think she killed that about 10 times over..!!!! oh and she loved to play with my son ... he'd roll the tinkly ball up the hallway and she'd chase after it and bring it back to him to roll again like a dog... and sometimes she'd just chase him trying to swat his ankles with her sharp claws.. as he'd shriek and giggle.

Alas her curiosity and adventurous nature got her in to strife, the middle of last week, she decided to climb some net curtains... unfortunately half way up the curtain gave way and she fell damaging the knee in her right rear leg. Although this wasn't apparent until the following morning, when she began to limp. She got worse over the day so my wife called a vet in... who looked at her and gave a very strong anti-inflammatory/pain killer... she didn't seem to bad... the next two days weren't too bad, she ate well, toileted etc... had bursts of kitten energy doing her kitteny things... but having big rests between... though by Saturday morning we were unsure what to do long term... so we took her to another vet to get a look over and prognosis. So the vet says - she'll heal okay with maybe a little bit of a limp, but nothing to impede her general mobility... cool.. so we went home and then it was all down hill from there... her pain seemed to increase and then she stopped eating, sleeping and everything else... so after a harrowing day though Sunday evening we took her to a 24 hr vet and had her put to sleep. God bless her little soul.. no more suffering... here's a photo of her not long before we took her to the vet the final time...



God bless you - we loved you so much and will never stop... you will always be in our hearts!!!!!