Goodbye to my Dear Oliver by Stella Martin

Goodbye to my Dear Oliver

by Stella Martin

GOODBYE TO MY DEAR OLIVER YESTERDAY MY DEAR OLIVER DIED A TRAGIC DEATH HERE IN OUR HOME. IM DEVASTATED AND HEART BROKEN. AS MANY OF YOU KNOW, THIS WAS MY SWEET CAT WHOM I BOTTLE FED STARTING AT 5 WEEKS OF AGE. HE WAS 6 AT THE TIME HE DIED. HE WAS THE ONE WHO LIKED TO BE HELD LIKE A BABY, AND WOULD STRETCH HIS PAWS UP UPON YOUR LEG WHEN HE WANTED TO BE HELD. ALL 10+ LS OF HIM. AFTER A RELAXING BRAKFAST WITH MY PARENTS HERE IN OUR HOME, OLIVER PERCHED HIMSELF ON THE TABLE AND KEPT MY MOTHER AND I COMPANY WHILE WE VISITED. HE PURRED AND WENT FROM LAP TO LAP. HE JUMPED OFF THE TABLE AND WENT TO THE COMPUTER ROOM FOR HIS REGULAR MORNING NAP. AS I WAS WALKING BY I NOTICED OLIVER WAS SICK. REALLY SICK. I GRABBED HIM AND WAS ON MY WAY TO THE EMERGENCY CLINIC WHEN I LOOKED OVER AND KNEW. I PULLED OVER AND HELD HIM AS HE TOOK HIS LAST BREATH. OLIVER DIED LESS THAN 10 MINUTES AFTER BECOMING ILL. IT TOOK EVERY THING I HAD TO PULL MYSELF TOGETHER TO DRIVE HOME. RAISING THIS CAT FROM SUCH A WEE ONE GAVE ME A HEART FELT BOND THAT IVE NEVER HAD WITH A CATHE WAS JUST DIFFERENT. OLIVER WAS DIAGNOSED WITH A HEART MURMER WHEN HE WAS APROXIMATELY 1 YEAR OLD. THE VET AT THE TIME SAID HE WOULD MOST LIKELY GROW OUT OF IT. LOOKING BACK, IM POSITIVE BY THE SYMPTOMS OLIVER DIED OF A MASSIVE HEART ATTACK. I AM THANKFUL I WAS HERE WITH HIM. JERRY MADE A CROSS AND HIS SONS CAME OVER AND BURIED OLIVER FOR US. HE NOW RESTS HERE AT HOME. IVE DECIDED TO SHARE THIS WITH ALL OF YOU WHO KNEW, OR PERHAPS ONLY KNEW OF, MY DEAR OLIVER. IT IS TOO PAINFUL TO REPEAT OVER AND OVER.. I WILL MISS HIS PRESENCE IN OUR HOME AND AM THANKFUL FOR THE TIME WE HAD WITH HIM.

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