Our cat Cairo died on Thursday. We 'adopted' Cairo when we bought our house, and he had become a much loved family member. Such a loving cat - he would never hurt anyone and always accepted any animal we brought into his life - cuddling up with Amber and Rosie on the porch - accepting Jasper and Grayson into his life and sharing his home and beds with them....and even cuddling up with Charlie the pig or in the chicken house at times over the years!!! He loved nothing better than to snuggle with you on the porch!!!
We buried Cairo on Thursday evening, down by the pond - one of Cairo's favourite places to spend time on a Summer evening.
I have only just been able to post about Cairo, because the children had friends staying here and I didn't want to upset them while their friends were here staying - and then Laurence went to stay at his friends house and I planned to tell him when he came home - but he has been there three nights now so we eventually had to tell them all and I ended up having to tell him over the phone :( so at least he now knows.....I just didn't want to wait any longer in case he heard another way....with the children chatting with their friends over the computer these days I wanted to be sure he heard from me and not someone else....and the children here were bound to notice they hadn't seen Cairo...so we had to tell them.
Anyway - they all now know. We have lost two cats this Summer :( At least with cairo we know what happened and we have been able to say goodbye. We will never know what happened to Jasper....
