Kitty Heaven

Mo Cat came to us on his own.

He was about 3 months old.

Mom named him. Since our

dog's name was Skeeter, mom

named our new kitty, Mo. If you

call the cat first, then the dog;

You have Mo Skeeter. Get it?

You know...like in the insect

mosquito?

Mo didn't stay home very much.

But, after mom had taken him

to the vet one day while I was

at school, he never left our yard

again. It wasn't until years

later that I understood why!

Mo could be found just about

anywhere in our yard. One of his

favorite places was a pot mom

had left out for dad to put his

filleted fish in.

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One day I found him in the back

yard laying in the grass. He

kept flinching like electric

static was traveling under

his body. It was then I realized

he was laying on a grass snake.

Every time the snake would move,

it would make him jump. The

snake would just about slither

away from him and he'd reach

out with a claw and pull it back!

I felt so bad for the snake! It was

then that I realized why we had

dead snakes in our yard. When

Mo finished "playing" with them

he would kill them! This day I

made Mo leave it along by taking

this "bad" little kitty into the house!

When dad backed the boat into the

yard, Mo was always there. He

knew to go to the outside sink

dad had for cutting up his fish.

He would always give Mo some

of the raw fish. Little did Mo

realize he was getting sushi!

Mo had had a life of any cat's

dreams! In his older years he

began to get cataracts. He

loved to just lay in the early

morning sunshine. We moved

from the Keys taking Mo with us,

of course. He had started to have

mini seizures which soon became

pretty significant and frequent.

My heart broke when we had to

have him put to sleep, but he

couldn't live in any quality of

of life.

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Mo live for 16 years, most in the

Florida Keys with the "Life of

Riley" as the saying goes. I

know he's in Kitty Heaven

and I'm sure I will see him

again as Romans 8:21-22 says

"Because the creature itself

also shall be delivered from

the bondage of corruption

into the Glorious Liberty

of the Children of God."