Missing Angel Tamir

Today marks the four year anniversary of Angel Tamir's trip to the Bridge.  We can't believe the Big Guy has been gone for so long.  We really miss him a lot.

Mom made this slideshow on the first anniversary of his leaving for the Birdge to celebrate Tamir's life.  We know it's long, but we hope you enjoy it. Mom had such a hard time finding the right photos to use and it was so hard to cut some.   There's even a little video of his loud and rumbly purr!!  We know we have some new friends since Angel Tamir left us and we hope you enjoy meeting him....he was a special ManCat.



Tamir's Memorial Slideshow from Sharon Spiegelhalter on Vimeo.

Sweet Tamir, we love you and miss you a LOT.  Please give smoochies to Angels Sniffie and Cubby and Clifford and, if you can, give Auntie El a hug for us too.

Love,
Mom and Dad, Ellie, Allie, Raz

Angel Sniffie

This is such a hard time of the year for us.  We miss our Angels so much.  It's so hard to believe that Angel Sniffie left us five years ago today. Having the anniversary of Angel Tamir's leaving and Angel Sniffie's leaving on consecutive days makes it even harder.

Mom made this slideshow for Sniffie's one year memorial.  We enjoy seeing her sweet face and hope you do too.  It's pretty long (almost 11 minutes) but there were so many special pictures that Mom couldn't leave out.

               

We miss you Sniffie, we know you  are at the Bridge with Angels Tamir, Cubby and Clifford, Auntie El and, of course, Nimbus but we sure wish you were still here with us.

Love,
Mom and Dad and Ellie, Allie and Raz

Missing Angel Sniffie

This is such a hard time of the year for us.  We miss our Angels so much.  It's so hard to believe that Angel Sniffie left us 4 years ago today.  Having Angels Tamir and Sniff'es anniversary dates come right next to each other makes us very sad.

Mom made this slideshow for Sniffie's one year memorial.  We enjoy seeing her sweet face and hope you do too.  It's pretty long (almost 11 minutes) but there were so many special pictures that Mom couldn't leave out.

               

We miss you Sniffie, we know you  are at the Bridge with Tamir and Clifford and, of course, Nimbus but we sure wish you were still here with us.

Love,
Mom and Dad

Missing Angel Tamir - Two years later

Today marks the two year anniversary of Angel Tamir's trip to the Bridge.  We can't believe the Big Guy has been gone for so long.  We really miss him a lot.

Mom made this slideshow last year to celebrate Tamir's life.  We know it's long, but we hope you enjoy it. Mom had such a hard time finding the right photos to use and it was so hard to cut some.   There's even a little video of his loud and rumbly purr!!  We know we have some new friends since Angel Tamir left us and we hope you enjoy meeting him....he was a special ManCat.



Tamir's Memorial Slideshow from Sharon Spiegelhalter on Vimeo.

Sweet Tamir, we love you and miss you a LOT.  Please give smoochies to Angels Sniffie and Clifford and, if you can, give Auntie El a hug for us too.

Love,
Mom and Dad, Ellie, Allie, Raz and Cubby

Flashback Friday with Clifford

Since Angel Clifford was ALWAYS moving, we don't have a lot of good photos of him. He and Cubby were also inseparable, so there are few of him alone.  Here's one of Angel Clifford and Cubby with their stuffed owl.  Angel Clifford loved his toys!!

Angel Sniffie - 3 years at the Bridge

This is such a hard time of the year for us.  We miss our Angels so much.  It's so hard to believe that Angel Sniffie left us 3 years ago today.

Mom made this slideshow for Sniffie's one year memorial.  We enjoy seeing her sweet face and hope you do too.  It's pretty long (almost 11 minutes) but there were so many special pictures that Mom couldn't leave out.

               

We miss you Sniffie, we know you  are at the Bridge with Tamir and Clifford and, of course, Nimbus but we sure wish you were still here with us.

Love,
Mom and Dad

Angel Tamir - 1 year at the Bridge

Today marks the one year anniversary of Angel Tamir's trip to the Bridge.  We can't believe the Big Guy has been gone for so long.  We really miss him a lot.

Mom made this slideshow to celebrate Tamir's life.  We know it's long, but we hope you enjoy it. Mom had such a hard time finding the right photos to use and it was so hard to cut some.   There's even a little video of his loud and rumbly purr!!



Tamir's Memorial Slideshow from Sharon Spiegelhalter on Vimeo.

Sweet Tamir, we love you and miss you a LOT.  Please give smoochies to Angels Sniffie and Clifford and, if you can, give Auntie El a hug for us too.

Love,
Mom and Dad, Ellie, Allie, Raz and Cubby

Flashback Friday

Mom always smiles when she sees this picture of Angel Tamir and Gracie surfing in Austrailia.   They had such a good time together scouting out all the good places to visit.

Photo by Gracie

Flashback Friday with Angel Sniffie

Angel Sniffie knew how to relax!!!

Flashback Friday

Auntie El loved Tamir.  We think she loved him so much she colored her hair to match him.  Needless to say, that color didn't last long!!

Flashback Friday

Tamir and Allie were good buddies.  We think Allie missed Tamir a lot when he went to the Bridge.  She's good buds with Raz now too but she doesn't sleep with him like she did with Tamir.

A Birthday Party at the Bridge.

Today would have been Angel Tamir's 16th Birthday.  We know there must be a big party at the Bridge for him.  

HAPPY 16TH BIRTHDAY Angel TAMIR! We love you very, very much and really miss you!!


We want to thank Ann from Zoolatry for the super graphics! The ZH human made them for Tamir a couple of years ago and we love them so much we reused them. 

Thursday Thoughts.....

It's hard to believe that 3 months ago our big guy Tamir left for the Bridge.  Mom got really leaky eyed when she took out the Christmas stockings and saw his.  She's made a special place on the mantle for  Tamir and Sniffie's stockings.

Sweet Tamir, we miss you and love you.  We sure wish you were here to celebrate Christmas with us.

Love,
Mommy and Daddy and your fur sibs.

Tamir has been an Angel for a Month

Today is Tamir's one month anniversary at the Bridge.  We can believe our sweet ManCat has been gone for so long.  Mom asked us if we would let her post today, and we said yes.  We hope she doesn't embarrass us!!

Thanks furkids....I'll do my best

Sweet Gracie made this lovely graphic for our boy.

There are so many things I miss about my boy.  From the day I found him at the shelter, we had a special bond.  Tamir howled all the way from the shelter because he was scared of the PTU.  I found out that he and his brother had been left at the shelter in the PTU and were probably there for hours before someone found them.  Your MEHOWL was a signature as you grew up.  When you were looking for me or even when you went into a room you had to announce yourself....in a blood curdling HOWL!  I sure miss that sound.  You would do the same thing when you thought the food bowl was getting a bit too low....you never wanted to miss a meal!!  You never really knew how big you were....you were always trying to squeeze into small spots!  We were always amazed at how you could get into the small PTU, turn around and snooze!!

Your meow was loud but your purr was even louder.  Once your Daddy thought he heard a helicopter over the house but he was wrong - it was your PURR!  You would purr the second I touched your furs.  Sometimes at night you would get up on my pillow and purr me to sleep.  You loved snuggling with me in bed and would bodyslam the bedroom door if it was closed.  It's lonely in the bed now.  I reach for you and you're not there.  I even miss your snore.  Even making the bed is sad because you taught me how to make it without disturbing your naps.  I  learned how to strip the bed and put clean sheets on by only moving you a tiny bit.  You were a good teacher!

You loved belly rubs and ham and being brushed.  I have a little baggy of your furs from brushing you the night before you left for the Bridge.  Your special treats are still on the table......

I miss you so much.  I know you and Sniffie are happy to be together again at the Bridge but it doesn't make losing you easier.  I see you in your bed, on the chair and walking by me at night. I hope these are all signs that you are happy at the Bridge.  I will always love you and you will always be with me.
I talk to you every time I pass your Urn.  I love seeing your sweet face.

Tamir's Urn

Till we're together again............

I Love you,
Mommy

Easy Like Sunday with Ellie

We're going to find a sunpuddle, take a nice bath and snooze today.....How about you???

Photo Hunters - Empty

This week's Photo Hunters theme is EMPTY.

It's so hard to see an EMPTY bed....

It should look like THIS

See more Photo Hunters posts HERE.

Ten ways your Kitty Says "I Love You"

      10 Ways Your Kitty Says “I Love You”

Dad sent this to Mom the other day.  We think we do all of these.  Ellie is especially good at putting the bitey on (#3) and we think Allie was expressing her Love with #4 the other night!!  Click on the link under the photo to see all 10!

10 ways your Kitty says "I Love You"

Friday with Allie

Hi furriends, Allie here.  As some of you who are on Facebook know, I had to go to the VET yesterday.

Hey Mom.........why am I in this PTU in your car???

OH NO!!!!!  Don't stop HERE!!!

Please have mercy....let me OUT OF HERE!!

Hey Cheryl, I really like you but.....you're going to put that WHERE????

Holy Carp!  I'm OUT OF HERE!!

Mom Sharon here.....
Allie did have a VET visit yesterday.  On Wednesday afternoon she spent about an hour walking all over the house howling and yowling and sounding really pitiful.   She quieted down and Mom went to choir practice and got home about 9 pm.  Allie jumped up on the bed and proceeded to paw on the bedspread.  Since Allie is the queen of Machine Paw, I didn't think too much of it until I looked again and saw a giant wet puddle.

I put Allie and Ellie in our big cage with food, water and litter box to monitor them.  Nothing strange happened but I was worried.  At 3:45 yesterday we went to the VET (3 weeks in a row on Thursday...I'm going to skip Thursday next week.)

From all of her actions and the fact that she shows no symptoms of UTI, we think it's behavioral.  Allie and Tamir were buddies.  She loved to bite his ears and play with his tail and they both slept together on the bed (in the spot she went on).  We'll still monitor for UTI but we think she's okay.  I sent for refills for my Feliway diffusers and for the spray.  We think she's just missing our special ManCat.

Thanks for all the purrs and prayers...........I really didn't need this right now.....

One nice thing....we didn't make it to the Blessing of the Pets and I got this nice email from Deacon Mike who did the blessing:


""Hi Meow meow's mommie....Your kittys were a part of the blessing ceremony...the kittys were mentioned and I asked for prayers for them...So you and the kittys were there in spirit....Thanks for all you do"



That made me leaky eyed, in a good way!

Mom Sharon

The Feast of St Francis

Hi effurybuddy......Today is the Feast of St Francis of Assisi.  St Francis is the patron saint of animals.  Mom and Dad  will be packing up Ellie and Allie and taking them to Church to be Blessed. You can read more about St Francis HERE.


We're pretty sad because we used to go with Sniffie and Tamir....now it's just the two of us.  The woofies don't go because they make too much woofie noise!  They get their blessings through us.

We'll post photos tomorrow.  In the meantime, you can see our posts from other years by clicking HERE and HERE.
UPDATE:


Okay....Maybe we're not going.....last night Allie started meowing a lot and being really restless.  Mom went to choir practice and came home and Allie was pawing at the bedspread....and when
Mom came back in Allie left a GIANT puddle on the bed.  Mom figures it's a UTI or anxiety.  A VET visit is planned for today.

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