She was with me for 7 years. We found her roaming the garbage cans. She looked exactly like Bobby, my runaway tomcat. We remembered we saw her when she was just a little kitten, along with two others, Bobby's kids. We took her in, but but she wouldn't stay. She came only for food.
But then we noticed she was pregnant. A small cute ball of black fur. She was going to have her first babies. She wasn't yet a house cat, still came just for food and then left. But when the time came to have her babies, she came in. She gave birth to three little kittens, spotted in black and white. It happened under my eyes, on my bed. She stayed in for them since then. I fell in love with her so hard, she had the most beautiful, kindest, sweetest eyes I've ever seen in an animal. And she was loving, playful, cute, sometimes naughty and a little thief. But she was also a very good mom, very protective with her kittens. I remember one summer my mother took them all out, in the small garden behind our apartment building. A lady was walking her dog, and Mitzy started to hiss and grawl at the dog, even though it wasn't even looking towards her kittens. She looked so funny, being such a cute warrior mommy, she would have fought the dog to the death to protect her kittens.
About two years ago she was very sick, she was under treatment for one whole month, and I remember exactly her sweet eyes looking at us, begging to help, and we did. I was so happy when she got healthy again, and time passed, she living with us and two of her kids. Kids that have grown to be bigger and stronger than her, but every time she had something good to eat she'd call for them, as if they were still her little kittens, and not these big adult 7 year old cats. :)
And now... she's gone... It hurt so bad to see the life from those sweet big eyes fade away, her pupils wide open and fixed. I never thought the death of an animal could hurt like that. But it did, still does, and I think it will hurt for some time. The only thing left for me to do is to wait for the sadness to go away.
Good bye, my sweet little angel! I hope we will meet again when my time comes...
