Beautiful Tsarina

LMS before she was adopted and got her other name---Tsarina!

Midori sent me this in 2010

How time flies.

It seems like eons ago that I met Tsarina, and her adoptors, now old friends.

Tsarina has died of kidney failure.  She had a long and very loved life.

I called her Little Miss Sunshine.

In the summer of 2007, I was called to a location just south of Philomath, about a mom cat, tame, who had kittens in a shed.

The mom cat was easy enough to catch.  But the kittens--not so much.  The shed had some hay in it and a few sticks of wood, but the kittens would vanish beneath the wood, into spaces below them.  I had no idea what I was getting into and that the woodpile was long buried underground and went down five feet.  

I was a lot younger back in 2007.  I dug them out but it nearly did me in.

2007 was the year I had to move here to Albany, from living most of my life over in Corvallis.   I'd been evicted from my latest shanty.   The move was hard on me and it took me months to recover.

That's long behind me.  I love living here in this house, that my brother owns.   Nicest place I've ever lived in my life.  

When I heard Tsarina had died I went back and read blog posts I'd written way back then.  I remember now why I called her Little Miss Sunshine.  She looked like she had a perpetual smile on her face even though she went through a great deal after she came here.  She caught conjunctivitis after her spay at Heartland, so bad her eyes bled from it.  Then ringworm, requiring lime sulphur dip baths three times a week.   That was my difficult time, with about a dozen or more kittens with ringworm I had to dip, then dry, one by one three times a week.  But we all got through it and Little Miss Sunshine got the best of homes and when she did, I gained friends for life.

Here's one post about her adoption, from 2007.

I know what its like to lose friends.    Tsarina---what a life you had!  Thank you Midori and Mark for sharing your home and giving her your hearts.

RIP LMS--Tsarina!