We lost our Sweetie on July 8, 2024.
She first appeared in the yard, escorted by feral cat Hobo, in 2009.
We TNR'd her in 2010, and she remained human-shy for years.
When Celestial Paddy O'Malley arrived in 2011, and he became friendly, Sweetie slowly picked up on allowing pets and brushies.
When COVID hit in March, 2020, we trapped Sweetie to bring her inside after over 10 years in our yard.
Amazingly, she took to being a pampered housecat in days; the video of her kicking the catnip toy was filmed soon after she'd come inside.
She still had a pretty good-sized wild streak, but the fourish years we had with her sleeping with her humans, allowing smoochies, and vet visits are happy memories.
Sweetie had developed mammary tumors, and the prognosis was pretty meh whether she had the surgery or not, so we chose to let her just live as comfortably as possible.
Sweetie was a wonderful cat, and we hope that Henry has found the inside life is pretty darn good too, just as she did.
❤️ Purrs to you, Celestial Sweetie! ❤️
