Beta Veldonna di Betazed
17/12/2009 - 13/05/2014
| Rome, 13th of May 2014 It has been since 2007 when we started to breed that subconsciously I knew that sooner or later it would happen, but I did not imagine in this way, and not with you, my little Beta. And I was not ready. You may never be ready when someone you love leaves you. Beta was a very sweet cat, she was very affectionate and cuddly. Even with people she did not know she was never hiding, always close and curious and looking for pampering that she repaid with lots of purring and kisses on hands and arms. Our cats are very sweet and affectionate with both Laura an me, like they are with anyone else however, but each of them has a preference and tend to curl up on or ask for cuddles on their favorite human. Beta was one of "my cats", even though it is maybe more correct to say that I was her human. As a puppy, as soon as she was able to jump on our bed, she was always sleeping curled up in the crook of my elbow, at least until she has grown too much big, as all real maine coons. At that point she begun to curl up next to me with her head resting on my chest, or laying over my legs that she used as a couch, lying above and slowly digging with the legs to form a little hole where settle down to sleep. This however never before have gone through all the other cats and their humans, licking and cleaning everyone for the night with care and commitment, an ocean of kisses and purring. If sometimes before going to sleep I spent some moment at the computer finishing a some work, when I left the room I always found her waiting behind the door, and as soon as I went out, meowing happily, she went to the bedroom and jumped on the bed waiting for me. When we were watching TV on the sofa she ran immediately to snuggle on my lap and remained there until it was me having to get up for some reason. Just like her mother Nessie also does, when I was preparing her meal she jumped over the kitchen sink where I was working and gave me a lot of bumps with her head, and when I handed her the bowl she did not start eating before I scratched her behind the ears. All this for four years, four years of selfless and unconditional love and trust that few humans are really worthy to receive and only a cat or a dog is capable of giving. All this is over now, from this afternoon our little silver star is no longer with us, her little heart stopped forever. An awful tumor has taken her away in only two weeks, attacking the spinal cord. Up to fifteen days before she was jumping on top of the ten-feet tall cat tree, then she suddenly began to limp, slightly, to the left hind leg. No medicament had any effect,and in just six days she has totally lost use of her hind legs. The response of magnetic resonance imaging was unfortunately the tragedy we already knew inside orselves. We tried for a few days to cure her just to see if there could be some reaction, some chance to keep her a little bit more with us, but in three more days only she started to have pain when touched on her back and also the front legs began to fail. Yesterday the vet officially gave us the final answer, but it was already too much clear to us. After one last night spent sleeping between us on our bed, still trying to purr in response to our pampering, today I had to take my sweet Beta to make her last journey. She passed in my arms, her head on my shoulder and those wonderful sweet green eyes that seemed to ask me for some help, help that unfortunately I was not able to give her. I just could hold her in my arms and comfort her for the last time. Now she ceased to suffer, Laura and I have just begun. Goodbye little, beautiful, sweet Beta, it was great to have you with us, thank you for all the love and joy that you gave us as long as you were on our side. It is terrible to lose you, but it would have been worse if we had never met you. May earth be light to you my little furry beloved one. Marco |
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