High Spirits

[lavendertook]

Here's a set of pics of Saki having fun 2 years ago. Though she looked better the last several months having gained back a good 3 pounds and a much more enthusiastic appetite for treats, making her much more easy to medicate than the last couple of years, she lost a lot of her playfulness and enjoyment of toys. She did still enjoy jumping in her pirate ship, and being carried to her favorite lookout posts on her cat trees and being showered with fresh dried catnip, and would roll her head over purring, but she wasn't coming up with her own games as of yore. The hyperthyroidism itself, though, may have extended her youthful playfulness the last couple of years longer.

But new toys were always welcome, and some new catnip bags were just right.


Now this is good nip!


OMG--just taste this stuff!




This is mine.


I'm going to absorb it all through my forehead--just see if I don't!!!


Kickin' awesome!


Even catnip is better with a mylar/feather stick.


Whut?

I miss my high-spirited sparkling-faced girl so much. Such a presence.

Comments

[untonuggan]

♥

obviously such an amazing cat

still thinking of you

[lavendertook]

She was a pirate, a princess, and a steel-driving cat, 'til she laid down her hammer and she died.

Thank you, bb. *hugs*

[zlabya]

You have the loveliest ways of describing Saki. So glad she had plenty of 'nip and other joys in her life.

[lavendertook]

Thank you, bb. She had so many ways with her to describe. She did have a lot of fun in her life and brought me such joy, and fascination/entertainment and exacerbation to other cats.

There were a lot more people walking around the lake on Sunday afternoon.

[jan-u-wine.livejournal.com]

that's some proper Saki's Longbottom Leaf, there! What a lovely Saki story!

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

She loved her Longbottom nip for sure. Her enthusiasm for all her wants--I called her my cat of STRONG WANTS--was most infectious. *hugs*

[jan-u-wine.livejournal.com]

*hugs* you back.

She was a kitteh who kMew what she wanted......

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

She was a steel-driving cat, lord goddess,
My Saki was a steel-driving cat.

Straight home from surgery, she beat those water bowls around when they wouldn't provide.
But the locomotive won, her mighty heart broke, and she laid down her hammer and she died.

[jan-u-wine.livejournal.com]

(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((you & that little loco-motive that could and *did*!)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

*hugs tight* She could and did fabulously and was the very best. I'm slowly becoming accustomed to the past tense. A little further along this week. Thank you for going on this journey with me.

[jan-u-wine.livejournal.com]

yep, it does take a while to re-shelve the loss book. But then....that is the way it should be. Time will give you perspective.

huggles, jan

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

"Don't even think about touching my catnip!" I see that look on her face. :D

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Maniacal enthusiasm was Saki.

[addie71.livejournal.com]

Mine - all mine!

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Absolutely! My cat of STRONG WANTS.

[mews1945.livejournal.com]

You can tell how much she loved her catnip toy.

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

She was a steel-driving cat, my Saki.

[lbilover.livejournal.com]

Ain't nobody taking that catnip away from her! <3

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

No, it was hers to relish, and relish it she did. <3

[pathvain-aelien.livejournal.com]

Beautiful, beautiful kitty.

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

She was a cutie and a beauty.

[mechtild.livejournal.com]

Aw, what a cutie! None of our cats have cared about catnip but they sure love their toys. I'm glad Saki could still be playful even while coping with illness, even if not with the verve of her former days. :)

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

The thing with hyperthyroidism, is that when its levels are up, they become even more playful and talkative and attentive, in other words hyper, so it made our bond closer the last years, along with the amount of care I needed to give her. The last few months it was more controlled and made her a little more centered--not aloof, but less attention seeking than the last few years, though due to her health, my attention was with her.

[mechtild.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see. The medical condition heightened her naturally playful/talkative/affectionate approach.

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Yes. It took a lot of time and mental space the last 4 years remembering all her meds and changing dosages and preparing them for her, but she paid it back tenfold in increased affection and expression--this during the time I was dealing with my breast neoplasm and lumpectomy, getting hit by the car, unemployment and varied short-term employments and needed her most. She saved the sweetest for the last.

[febobe.livejournal.com]

<3 <3 <3

Saki was ever so special. She just looks like an awesome kitty to pet. <3

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

She had the softest coat--I think the sleeping pic in the next entry really catches through look how soft her coat was--it hurts to see it and not be able to touch her. And she always purred when you stroked her, or tried to, even to her last day.