Hi all,

We're sorry to have to tell you that our cat Oscar was hit and killed by
a car this Monday night the 23rd.

We had been at work all day and then stayed out at night for a comedy
festival show (leaving a window open so the cats could get in and out),
and when we came home he wasn't there. He rarely stayed out all night
(we would always try to prevent them going out at all after dark), and
we became more worried when he didn't return for breakfast. After
calling out his name around the block, our next-door neighbour told us
that a man had knocked on their door with the news that he had hit and
killed a ginger cat. He was directed to our place and apparently
knocked, but obviously without response, and left.

Unfortunately we don't have Oscar's body - our neighbour couldn't tell
us what the driver did with him, and we can only assume he took him away
with him, and we haven't heard from him or anyone else since, despite
the tag with our phone number, and the microchip. All of which makes it
a lot harder to accept it or feel any kind of resolution. It's just had
to be deduced, from word of mouth, and accepted as an unwelcome fact,
without proof, without trace, just an absence.

Farewell Oscy. You were loved. You were a family member, an esteemed
presence, so solid and ginger, and we always assumed you would be around
in ten years, a dignified, wizened tough old boy. You played your feline
role with such admirable seriousness, and your banal means of death did
no justice to the grace of your life. You were too noble and true for
this world. May the corn chips be plentiful wherever you be.

-K & L

Some favoured titles:
Steady and True
Little Wingnut
Ginger Heartbreaker
Noble Steed
Learned Scholar
Captain Dreamboat
Senõr Robo-Kitty

"What a piece of work [...]! how noble in reason! how infinite in
faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how
like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world!
the paragon of animals!"

Posted at 11:08 in diary punk.