I got the news as I was lamenting to a friend about my movie-like dillemas..I was already very much distressed, and so this news made me even sadder. But I must say I was very surprised to have been so sad about this. I knew it was coming..Tupai was very very sick. He was much younger than Max, but he walked so slowly. He hardly had any energy to go upstairs anymore. For the last few weeks, we started putting his food plate downstairs since we pitied him because he would still go upstairs when we were home just to eat and hang around in the surau.

I missed his running around, bolting to the door as soon as it opened, and racing with us up and down the stairs. At night when I couldn't see the stairs and would walk slowly for fear of falling, he would walk slowly right in front of me and looking back every once in a while. He would always accompany everyone up and down the stairs. Once when we were locked out of the house, he waited with us until we got the door open. He was loyal and loving in his own special way.

When he was only a kitten, he loved to jump all over the couches. If any of us were lying or sitting on the sofa, he would jump up and snuggle comfortably with his head poked into any gap he could find and the rest of his body poking out. As he fell into a deep sleep a paw or tail would start hanging out. When he grew and started shedding, we didn't allow him to sit on the sofa but he had a little red cushion of his own which he would lie on and sleep on.

Towards the end of his life, he became slightly suicidal. He would lie on the ground and even when a car wanted to go in he wouldn't budge even when the car was almost on top of him. We would have to pick him up and put him somewhere else. He transformed from a fat healthy cat into a skinny, mangy cat with fur falling off his skin. I was so sad to see him that way. We suspect he caught a disease from the local monkeys. I knew his end was near, and yet somehow when my sis-in-law told me that he had passed, I was so sad, completely speechless.

Tupai, RIP. I miss you.

+ posted by angelsixteen | 9:57 PM

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