February 15, 2013

MY LITTLE OMEN

Yesterday in the post I thanked Leukka. This is me and Leukka having a nap………..

 

 Leukka is my omen because she showed up the day I got my diagnosis.  We believe that she is the daughter of a former house cat (not ours) named Rufus and an unknown but very kind and very smart mama cat.  We, meaning Pauline, found her in the garage in a box with the top closed.  She was clean, well fed, and all by herself.  We brought her in and (Pauline mostly) bottle fed her. Tweak, one of our dogs, licked her butt like a good mama does so the kitten will poo.  I named her.  After eight days she opened her eyes and she looked like this………..

 

 

 

So obviously Leukka grew up.  She is now 11 months old and she may be the sweetest cat we’ve ever had except when she is tearing through the house, attacking Tweak, destroying toilet paper, or biting Pauline. She’s never seen another cat.  She thinks she is a dog albeit a very special one (she is a cat after all).  She chases toys thrown down the corridor along with the dogs until she gets bored and then she hides in the cross corridor and attacks the dogs as they run by.  She sleeps curled up with the dogs during the day.  At night the special part takes over and she gets under the comforter on the bed while the real dogs sleep on the comforter on the floor.

Tonight Leukka is at Dr. Vet’s office.  We had her declawed when she was a baby but he missed one claw.  Despite his protests to the contrary, it is not an uncommon occurrence.  We know of two other cats on which he missed the same claw.  One of them was ours and he was almost named Bird in honor if his lone claw.  Interestingly it is always the same claw.  We think of it as Doc’s trademark.  Anyway we didn’t consider it a problem since Festus, as he was called instead of Bird, learned to use his claw to great advantage.  But the other night Leukka poked a hole in me.  That’s OK right now but after I return from the hospital being poked by a claw on a foot that just got used in a litter box is not going to be something to ignore.  So tonight my little omen rests in a cage at Doc’s place.  I miss her so you get to read this.

Boone

P.S.  (How many of you even remember what that mean stands for?)

This is Tweak and her buddy Doug…………………………………..

For more on them see Living With Lewy Body e-book at Living with Lewy Body ebook Specifically the entry called “When I Die, I May Not Go To Heaven” from March of 2008.