I am so sorry Suzy. Sounded familiar from the personality, to the breeze part, and the ending. I know those kindred spirits will find each other. My thoughts are with you, hubby, and other kitties today. I'm saddest for your link loss. If there is anything I can do you, tell me.

Love,
Robin

Aw Suzy. I'm so sorry you've lost Dietz. I feel like I know him from hearing about him all these years. His comings and goings. What a wonderfully long life. I'm glad he stayed with you so long and glad he slipped away as he did. Rest old fella. You'll be missed by more than you know.

Marmalade tabbies are very special cats with their happy natures and quirkiness and boy you miss them when they are gone.Lucky Diez for having two great women to care and nurture him through these years.

Thanks all, and thanks Marda, but the little fellow had all three of us gals, in rotations...... like musical chairs. LOL. I've always thought of him as my daughter's cat, whom Mama and I absconded with over the years. He should have traveled with a little suitcase. That brings me down to three cats now. One nearly twenty, one about sixteen and the baby at around ten. I am running a geriatric pet facility.

Suzy I am sorry for your loss. You've written a beautiful eulogy, and I appreciate your sharing. I can understand how the special link to your mother makes this cat's farewell extra poignant.

It seems beautiful how you were able to ease him out. No doubt you comforted him tremendously. What a compliment from a barn cat that he would prefer intimacy and warmth in your arms to the quiet hiding place that his very nature would instruct him to seek.

Oh, and you know I think his name is lovely. Just lovely...

Your words touched me. Sorry he had to say goodbye, but it was time. You all gave him a good life.

Goodbye Dietz a lot of us will miss you. Steve in Baltimore County.

Sigh........
My "precious" is 15 and showing signs of aging. You've moved me to tears.........

What a lovely Eulogy for a very special cat. He went gently, he will be missed, he had a great life, what more can I say?
I will not be surprised to hear that there is an marmalade tabby kitten somewhere, waiting for you, Suzy...

Thank you for sharing that swseet picture and your touching words with us. Dietz was a fortunate cat when he connected with your family.

Truly a special kitty.

Dietz was a lucky cat, and you were lucky, too. Still, I'm weeping with you. No matter how many pets, no matter how old, these passages never get any easier. I'll be facing this soon myself, as my dogs are 14 and 16.

I am not the slightest bit religious, but I have good reason to believe we will see those we love--including animals--again. This comforts me, and I hope it will comfort you.

Susan

(((Suzy))) It sounds like the perfect way to leave -warm and comfortable in the arms of someone who loves us. Your "goodbye" is the best of honest.

I'm crying, as I remember my Jitterbug leaving, too young, in my arms...last November.

Lynn

Suzy, what a special way to say goodbye.
Dietz was a precious kitty loved by a special family.
I'm sorry.

Kitties do not have the distractions we do so they can devote themselves to steeling our hearts. Sorry that your buddy had to move on, it is tough to say goodbye. Wonderful euology.

I can so relate to your loss, our 20 year old brown tabby died in my arms on the way to the vet in May. We buried him under the Van H. spiria, in a rain. He was the "uncle" to all the other cats. They become so much a part of our familiy. I can also relate to the geriatric part. The remaining cats are all over 10.

Marmalades are very special. My old guy went at 18 and I did something similar, held him close in bed with me his last night.

A lovely eulogy, Suzy. He will never leave your heart.

It touches me how many of us have such love for a cat. I know many people who do not care in the least for them. I've always felt sorry for cats who must coexist in a household with a person who can barely tolerate them. One can only guess at why a person doesn't fancy cats, and I've suspected those are folks with control issues. Folks who would indulge a cat their quirks, would do likewise for humans.

Dietz joined our old schnauzer Fritz in a garden down by the pond, watched over by four cherub statues. Seems fitting. We lost Fritz just three months ago, so losing Dietz so soon was a double whammy. I've never met two cats with identical personalities, so there'll never be another Dietz. But there shall always be another cat. Or two. Or three. I love all animals but having a cat who loves you is special, because you have to earn it. ;-)

Again, thanks for all your kind words and understanding. It just didn't seem right to send him off without some sort of official good bye.

I am so sorry that you lost Dietz. Maybe over the rainbow bridge he will play with my three marmelades which I lost over the course of two years, all over 20 yrs old (mother and two sons). Good by Dietz.

I am so touched by your words, and the way you connected to and understood your old Dietz. He has a charming long-whiskered look in the photo you shared with us. Having a special cat who responds to you is a real joy, and I think the better aspects of those cats' personalities that have influenced our lives leave us the better for knowing them. Thank you for telling us about him.