It was 11 years ago my husband and I, newlyweds, saw her at a local pet store and thought she was the cutest thing ever and got her as an easter presant to each other. We took her home and I went out to buy her bed and food. My husband layed on the floor and she crawled up on his back and there she layed until I got home! Daddy was hooked immediately! Me on the other hand took exactly 3 days. I am prone to migraines and I had one on the 3rd day. Well she cried and cried wanting up on the couch with me where I was laying(we said when we got a dog we wouldn't let it up on the couch because it was brand new haha!) I picked her up and she layed with me as quiet as a mouse. I layed beside her and was completely in love! From then on she was allowed on any furniture and she slept with us in bed.
Fast forward to when she was 4. We bought a house with a fenced in yard.We always said we bought the house for her! We were worried she wouldn't like it but did she prove us wrong. As long as she was with her mommy and daddy she didn't care where she was. This was her house and her yard and she looked over all of it. She was quite our protector.
When she was 7 we found out she had pancreaitis. We almost lost her. But with a controlled diet she thrived and gave us 4 more years of joy.
She had many nicknames but 1 was whenever she came in from the wet and cold I would wrap her in a towel and rock her and call her my bundle of joy. Also kity bug was 1 of our favorites. She loved being rocked, loved walking at the marina, loved her grandparents and mainly us. Since we don't have children we called her our baby.
So in april we lost our baby to a fast spreading cancer of the spleen. I'm crying as I write this it's still very hard but remembering how she helped us through rough times and all my migraines I'm thankful that we had such a precious gift given to us for 11 years. Love you kity bug.

Dear dakota28, it is great to continue to see all the tributes to our babies, whether it was last week or in april, it is still one of the hardest things in life that we have to go through, as you said, your kitybug was your child, just with fur, kitybug did nothing different than what our human children do for us, they are our companions through the good and the bad, even if they get mad at us, they are instant forgivers, unlike some children these days, as you can tell, my children are spoiled rotten so if they don't have to lift a finger, they won't, so i truly understand how much you're still hurting, i would lose it if i lost one of my human children, and unfortunately i had the unfortunate experience of losing one of my furbabies, i lost my beautiful yellow lab on september 5, 2004, and i am dealing with my grief through this website, i honestly think if i didn't have these folks, my family probably wouldn't want to be around me right now, but the good Lord works in mysterious ways and he has a hand in my healing with my grief, as he is you too, i will be just like you, i will have breakdowns and just get online to get that support i need, i unleash the floodgates, go out in the yard and visit my baby with a good cry, and then i will start anew once again, until the next time and the next time. Please come here to see us and tell us about your baby, just tell us how special your baby was over and over again, it will be music to our ears. You are in all our prayers.
Sherry