Happy Meow-loween From My Mewsette!
Posted: October 30, 2011 Filed under: black cats, cat photographs, cats, daily photo, Halloween, mewsette | Tags: cat dressed as gypsy, cat photographs, cat with pumpkin and lamp, halloween cat, mewsette, pet photography, photography 8 Comments
Madame Mewsette will tell your For-tuna
This is Mewsette’s favorite costume! She didn’t even have to put on one embarrassing garment or accessory.
Perhps Mewsette’s costume is honoring my alleged gypsy great-grandmother.
When I attended Catholic grade school, we were to dress up as our patron saint for All Hallow’s Eve, and dressing up as St. Bernadette was pretty easy for me as I already tended to wear peasant-style clothing and St. Bernadette didn’t suffer any dire injuries or horrible torture like some of the other saints, she just lived to be very old, despite Lourdes.
Well, I think Mewsette is dressed up as one of her patron kitties—she is quiet and introspective, unlike her brothers, and I can just see her in the role of a familiar or a gypsy fortune-teller!
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Taking Sally Home
Posted: October 30, 2011 Filed under: awakening, backyard, cat stories, cats, cats visiting after death, my household of felines, pet loss, pets visiting after death, stories of my cats | Tags: cat visiting after death, pet loss, sally the cat 7 Comments
A Warm Bath, pastel © B.E. Kazmarski
Second in a series of stories about visitations for the Halloween season.
So many visitations happen around the loss of an animal companion that it’s difficult not to dwell on the loss itself—but that misses the point of the visit. They’ve returned to tell you not to dwell on their loss, and to know of their peace and happiness. I’ve yet to hear of a single visit where the pet was unhappy.
But some visitations happen before the loss, or just at the time of the loss where you may sense another presence and understand it’s somehow related to your animal companion.
The Balloon
Posted: October 30, 2011 Filed under: cat stories, cats, cats visiting after death, feline artwork, my household of felines, pastel painting, pet loss, pets visiting after death, stories of my cats | Tags: cats visiting after death, fawn the cat, feline visitations, pet loss, pet return 1 Comment
Waiting for Mom, pastel © B.E. Kazmarski
For the days prior to the Feast of All Hallowed, Samhain, the Day of the Dead and other celebrations of the dimming of the veil between this world and the next, I am sharing a few stories of visitations, the mysterious returns of my cats after they’d transitioned. None are scary, unless you’re afraid of something that isn’t physically there, but all include elements I can’t explain and only accept…and am glad to have experienced.
Fawn
One night in early April, 1988, still with patches of snow on the frozen earth, a very small, very pregnant cat politely but confidently asked me if she could come into my home to give birth to her kittens. Of course I said yes, and I witnessed the entrance to this life of four independent and individualistic progeny. The last one born stayed with me after the others were adopted; the “runt of the litter”, the little cat with the big attitude, a torbie, my Fawn.
Ten years later, a friend sent balloons to my workplace for my birthday. The whole bunch was too big to take home, so I took one home and tied it to a lamp in my studio.
The Creative Cat 