Goodbye to a lovely cat called Fenella

FENELLA – a beautiful and gentle cat who has sadly left us to go over the Rainbow Bridge on 21st September, 2012 –R.I.P. we’ll miss you so much little lady…….

Fenella came in to the sanctuary nearly eighteen years ago.  She was a young adult, extremely beautiful and with a wonderful temperament.   Fenella had a lovely colouring, a pale calico with tabby stripes and immaculate white patches.   She was smudgy and looked as though she’d been lightly dusted with a flour bag.

Fenella’s temperament was as nice as her looks, she was a real little lady, very fastidious and refined in everything she did.   She was never a hooligan and kept herself a bit apart from the other cats, especially in her later years she preferred the company of other ‘golden oldies’ like herself.   Peaches, who is twenty this year, was a special friend.

Fenella was brought in as a stray and we thought that such a lovely cat would be claimed.   She never was though and eventually became one of our permanent residents.   It took a while for Fenella to get to know you and the right adopters just never turned up.    Why did we call her Fenella?   It just came and seemed to suit her – she was an upmarket young lady cat who would have been at home shopping in Harrods!

Fenella enjoyed good health for almost all of her life, she was always a bit picky over food – are you sure this is from Marks & Spencers?  She was never greedy.   As she aged her teeth began to give her problems and last year she had an operation to remove some and clean the rest.   We thought it had done the trick as she had a new lease of life – for a while.

Suddenly she began to fade and began to look very frail.   Yesterday she didn’t eat and the vet thought it was time for to ease her away into her next life.   We didn’t want her to suffer but it was so very sad.

We held her while she went to sleep….. goodbye little friend and good dreams till you come back again …… we’ll miss you.