A Feline Potpourri

In loving memory of Zeba

(1975-1995)

No, Heaven will not ever

Heaven be

Unless my cats are there

to welcome me

EPITAPH IN A PET CEMETERY



Cat Poems

My Spirit

Look not where I was

For I am not there

My spirit is free

I am everywhere


In the air that you breathe

In the sounds that you hear

Don't cry for me Mom

My spirit is near


I'll watch for you

From the other side

I'll be the one running

New friends by my side


Smile at my memory

Remember in your heart

This isn't the end

It's a brand new start

Author Unknown


Zeba

Dear Angel Puss, my feline friend

I loved you til the very end

As you grew old and featherweight

I knew I'd loose my little soulmate

This day would come, of course I knew

I just didn't know your days so few

When I glance around and see your place

I ache cause it's an empty space

I recall your eyes, oh so blue

There is great sadness in loosing you

In the end what can I say

Except I know we'll meet some day.

On Rainbow Bridge

Wendy McGuire-Taker

November 28,1995

Cat Quotes

Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!

Theophile Gautier

I love cats because I enjoy my home and little by little, they become its visible soul.

Jean Cocteau

For every house is incomplete without him, and a blessing is lacking in the spirit.

Christopher Smart

A little drowsing cat is an image of a perfect beatitude.

Champfleury

Jules Fleury-Husson

If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

Mark Twain

God made the cat in order that man might have the pleasure of caressing the lion.

Fernard Mery

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

Leonardo Da Vinci

To please himself only, the cat purrs

Irish Proverb

A dog I have always said, is prose, a cat is a poem

Jean Burden

Sometimes the veil between human and animal intelligence wears very thin - then one experiences the supreme thrill of keeping a cat, or perhaps allowing oneself to be owned by a cat.

Catherine Manley

No matter how tired or wretched I am, a pussycat sitting in a doorway can divert my mind.

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.

Mark Twain

Cats know how to obtain food without labour, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.

W.L. George

Cats have a contempt of speech. Why should they talk when they can communicate without words?

Lilian Jackson Braun

The really great thing about cats is their endless variety. One can pick a cat to fit almost any kind of decor, color, scheme, income, personality, mood. But under the fur, whatever the colour it may be, there still lies, essentially unchanged, one of the world's free souls.

Eric Gurney

The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domestic animal.

Sir Compton Mackenzie

In a cat's eyes, all things belong to the cat,

English Proverb

Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them.

Sir Compton MacKenzie

With the qualities of cleanliness, affection, patience, dignity and courage that cats have, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of becoming cats?

Fernard Mery

If you want to know the character of a man, find out what his cat thinks of him.

Anonymous

Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission… the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance.

SAKI

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.

Jeff Valdez


Some links to pages I found helpful after losing Zeba

Pet Loss

Candleservice

Rainbow Bridge


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