11/31 Slice of Life - Living the hard moments as well as the good ones

           Thanks to everyone who enhances this community by writing for the Slice of Life Challenge at the blog, Two Writing Teachers. 

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                  There was another slice, and then this evening my daughter called. One of their cats, their favorite actually, had been hit by a car. Her husband was going to stay with the girls, and would I wait to see what the emergency vet said? Well, you know how this will turn out. Dear LeRoc, sweetest cat even for toddlers, stayed near the girls when babies, seemed to take good care of them always, was too badly injured, and we said goodbye to her a little after ten. Dear pets are not easy to let go, and this "grand-cat" was dear. I have a poem that I love that is about a cat, but really about all of the pets we've had to say goodbye to. 

              I'd like to share in Le Roc's memory: 

My Old Cat by Hal Summers, begins:

      My old cat is dead,

      Who would butt me with his head.

       He had the sleekest fur.

       He had the blackest purr.

       Always gentle with us

       Was this black puss,

                      You can find the rest here.

               

        And here is LeRoc, lounging on the vcr for its warmth, a year or so ago.