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TRUE FAMILY CAT.
Shadow Barnden circa 1995 – 2019.
It is with deep regret that I report the death of the cat Shadow. He was, of all our feline companions throughout many years, the most family-minded cat ever to befriend us.
Some time around the year 2000 he came five doors down the terrace in Newport, where we then lived, to permanently reside in our home. He had made up his mind. The nice people at number 7, grandson of whom had left him with them when he moved to the mainland, were to become occasional friends only: they liked him but their resident cat didn't. He would be better off with the new people down at number 2 who were obvious cat people and didn't have a cat. Thus we were adopted: and when we moved here in 2015 it was as a family of which he was a member.
I like to think the subsequent four years, despite the occasional setback, were happy retirement years for him.
Sadly, over the past few months old age took its relentless toll and it was with much soul- searching that we had to arrange for the mobile vet to visit him here on 30 August. We were with him when his life ended.
He was a dear friend and there will never be another like him.
I can write no more right now.
It is with deep regret that I report the death of the cat Shadow. He was, of all our feline companions throughout many years, the most family-minded cat ever to befriend us.
Some time around the year 2000 he came five doors down the terrace in Newport, where we then lived, to permanently reside in our home. He had made up his mind. The nice people at number 7, grandson of whom had left him with them when he moved to the mainland, were to become occasional friends only: they liked him but their resident cat didn't. He would be better off with the new people down at number 2 who were obvious cat people and didn't have a cat. Thus we were adopted: and when we moved here in 2015 it was as a family of which he was a member.
I like to think the subsequent four years, despite the occasional setback, were happy retirement years for him.
Sadly, over the past few months old age took its relentless toll and it was with much soul- searching that we had to arrange for the mobile vet to visit him here on 30 August. We were with him when his life ended.
He was a dear friend and there will never be another like him.
I can write no more right now.
