Greybee Light Catcher is Gone
We had the most adorable kitty. His name was Greybee Light Catcher because he went from Grey to White (Light) and he was a baby. So the name ‘Greybee Light’. And then he became an incredible Catcher. When he caught his first mouse he was so excited. When he discovered where he lived! you could see the wild in his eyes, he could barely contain himself. You could see his eyes – wide – and practically hear his thoughts. “Oh boy, I can go in and out anytime I want. I can be cuddled and loved and fed inside and at night I can go outside and catch mice, yummy bunnies, anything I want! I can run and jump and be all I can be. I am a wild kitty!” At night he’d drag in mice through the upstairs window, across my bed and play with them on the living room floor before he ate them. The other night he brought in a baby bunny.
Greybee was sweet and adorable. He’d follow Smarty around and annoy him. He had a special pillow in our living room and during the winter he’d sleep in the warm sunlight in the office, on top of all my papers, next to Smarty. He slept on Paul’s left side for a few hours at night before he went out. (Smarty sleeps on my right side!) I would pick him up and love him up – he was so soft and cute – but only for a few seconds before he jumped out of my arms. He was getting wilder and wilder. Sophie thought he was Greybee’s Mom and she’d lick him and lick him and smell him and smell him until she knew he was clean.
Greybee didn’t come home last night – or the night before. He was gone all day yesterday.
I am very very sad. We are all very sad. Something happened. We can’t know what for sure.
We’ve had kitties here in the wilds of Arizona for 30 years. They always had constant indoor-outdoor access. But they were black. Sheba was with me for 21 years. Smarty is 20. When Greybee came to us at 3 or 4 months old I looked at him and thought ‘Oh-Oh. The white bib may not work in the dark, in the wild out here’.
Paul says he saw Greybee make the decision to be wild, that over the last month he’s not been sleeping with Paul and he’s been going out more and more. Paul says he might have turned feral, he may have decided he wanted to be a natural animal. Paul has an intimacy with the natural kingdom and knows things. He may be right.
Whatever happened to Greybee – I’m very sad. I miss him. I loved him. We are all, Amber, Zali, Tove, Smarty, Sophie, Zebedee, Paul and me very sad about Greybee.
I wanted to share this with all of you.
Love,
Susan
Category: Uncategorized Comment »