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Showing posts with label Majel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Majel. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Anipal Photo Hunt #12: All Souls' Day

Another great subject for the weekly anipal photo hunt hop, The All Saints Day and All Souls Day traditions are wonderful and mom says humans like to think about their loved ones waiting for them in heaven. But it is also a great time to think about those beloved animals who are waiting at the bridge for us. I am thinking about all my pals in the anipal Twitter community that I have lost in the year and a half since I've been on Twitter.

Of course, foremost in our memories now is our dear sweet Majel who went to the bridge in early September.


While the rest of these animals were before my time, they have a special place in my humans' hearts so I wanted to include them.

There is Majel's beautiful sister who was named Isis (Isis is on the left - too bad you can't see their really nice calico tails):



There was Christie:




There was Skipper:



Mom at one point had three doggies when she had Skipper and Christie but she can't find any pictures of the third one, an Irish Setter named Red. You might notice that the animal naming got a little more creative when dad came onto the scene. When we were looking through the pictures I also noticed that mom's picture taking has gotten better since there were lots of half chopped off dogs in those pictures.

These were all rescue pets - the kind less fortunate than me where they had to go to a shelter before they found their furever homes.

There were other pets we just can't find pictures of - family pets like BoBo, Jingles, Happy.

I will tell you a secret about BoBo. He was mom's dad's dog and went everywhere with him. BoBo was cremated when he died and her dad requested that when he died BoBo's ashes be mixed with his. They are now in the urn together in a special place in Church (the BoBo part is kind of a secret from the church people because some might not understand) just like they are together in heaven.

Our most favorite telling of the Rainbow Bridge story can be accessed by clicking here.




Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Majel Waits at the Rainbow Bridge

Mom, dad and me are heartbroken today because our beautiful Majel died peacefully in her sleep. She was two weeks shy of her 18th birthday.

Majel and me share a rare tender moment

Mom and dad adopted Majel and her sister Isis in January after they were married the previous Fall. They found the cute white kittens with calico tails at the Peninsula SPCA. They were still kittens but a little older and mom and dad figured they had been born right around the day they were married - September 17, 1992. So we always celebrated Majel and Isis' birthday on mom and dad's anniversary (which is also Dad's birthday).

Isis (left) and Majel as young cats. They are together again.

Isis went to the bridge from kidney failure when she was 11. Today Majel joins her and all the pets mom and dad have loved. They are waiting there for us. Pepi please take care of Majel we will miss her. If you would like to light a candle in Majel's memory, please click here.

This is for Majel



Other posts about Majel:

My Family
My Sisfur Majel
Meet My Family

Thursday, June 17, 2010

My Sisfur Majel

Dad managed to get this wonderful picture of me and my sisfur Majel yesterday and I just had to share it with everyone. It was a rare event because Majel does not like me.


In fact, for the first year I lived here she wouldn't come out from under the bed. Well, we think she really did when everyone was sleeping, but mom was getting really worried. You see Majel is seventeen years old and mom was sad that she was so terrified she felt she had to hide. Eventually mom and dad decided to take the mattress off the bed frame so Majel couldn't stay under the bed and she has been lots better since then but she still won't have much to do with mom. That makes me sad too because mom is really attached to Majel.

Majel and her real sisfur Isis were adopted from the SPCA a couple of months after mom and dad got married. They were both white kitties (the V.E.T. said he thought they had Siamese in them). Majel has the twin spots on her head and Isis had a small brown spot over an eye brow. But what is really cool is their tails are calico. You can see her tail in the picture some. Isis went to the rainbow bridge in 2003 because of kidney failure. They still miss her.

Boris will appreciate this - Majel is named after Majel Barrett Roddenberry, the wife of Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek. She also played Nurse Chapel on the original show, was the computer voice, and played Deanna Troi's crazy but lovable mother and Betazoid Ambassador Lwaxana Troi in The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine franchises. Mom and dad will admit that we pronounce Majel the kitty's name different than her namesake pronounced hers.

Isis (left) and Majel (right) as young kitties