Rainbow Bridge Day, 2023

 

We are re-posting most of an older RB Day post, since of course all of our Angels haven't changed, though since the one we are 'copying' was before Pipo became an angel,  we'll add him in, later in the post.

We have several Angel furs in our furmily...

There were two dogs from petcretary's 'growing up' years, and pawppy had three kitties before he married Petcretary. (We do not have any pics of his kitties, they were all tabbies, one long haired, and two short haired, two girls and a boy.) He also had many Scottie dogs and a couple of cats in his childhood years.

So starting with petcretary's dogs:

Blacky, he was a Cocker Spaniel -Terrier mix, and he took care of the shop that our Opa had, at night. Petcretary's nickname for him was Blacky Bushka, he had quite a bushy tail! He got to be over 14 years old:)

Blacky-Bushka

Blacky-Bushka

Blacky-Bushka

This picture is of petcretary and her brother as youngsters with Blacky-Bushka.

 Then there was a second Blacky; nicknamed Blacky Monster, because he really could be at times, though you would not know that from his pics, BOL! He was a Lab-Border Collie mix...maybe that is why his behavior was over the top sometimes. He herded the squirrels in the yard, and our ankles too...

Blacky-Monster

Blacky-Monster

Blacky-Monster

Then in 1988 petcretary got a kitty! Shortly after we got married, a family had to rehome their pets due to the medical conditions of their newborn preemies that were coming home...anypaws, we got Groucho, at the age of around seven, and he was a Meezer, the first of the six Meezers that have been with pawppy and petcretary. He lived till the ripe old age of 18 or 19, we were really never sure of his true age...

Groucho

 Then a kitten was added to our little family: Simba.

Groucho & Simba

 Groucho after some hisses, loved him and mentored him for seven years until one day Simba just curled up and passed away...he likely had a heartworm, cause he would get outside when the then toddlers here would open the door and he would run past them...to eat grass...and get mosquito bites...sigh...now all our furs get heartworm medicine all the year long.

Simba

Simba

So then Suki came along...a diva kitty if there ever was one, MOL! Groucho taught her and loved her too...

Groucho & Suki

 She developed seizures and had an inner ear problem so that she couldn't walk in a straight line, she would get attacked by the other two kitties and also the dog, so she was in a big cage when there were no peeps around to watch over her. Eventually the seizures became so bad that she was allowed to become an Angel, at the age of 11.

Suki

When Suki was about 6 months old, Toki came along...so now Groucho had 2 kittens to teach and love...Suki hated him and she hated petcretary for a while after that, too...yikes! She thought she should be the only kitty...even though she was there with Groucho...who can understand the minds of cats??! MOL!

Toki was a gem of a kitty, he was everyone's friend and learned lots of tricks. He was a fetch kitty, too. He visited the school where our sons went and stole their hearts. He would have made a great therapy cat.

Toki

 Toki loved it when MrJackFreckles came into our furmily...he immediately jumped into the bed with that wee puppy and laid on top of him...a nice warm cushion. They became fast friends! But more hate from Suki!

Toki & MJF

 Toki got to be way too overweight, and at the tender age of seven he passed from complications of severe diabetes. MJF missed him immensely.

Toki

 By then Groucho had passed; so one day on Valentine's Day of 2005, the kittens Pipo and Minko were introduced...Even though they were both the same age, about 8 weeks, (though from different families), Pipo hated all dogs from the get go, and never got to  liking them, Minko was more tolerant and he got to be quite friendly with MJF, though not like Toki had been...they would not sleep in the same bed, MOL! However, they were mutual ear washers! Go figure:)

Then Minko got sick and petcretary had to hand feed him...she did that for three years, and on Father's Day of 2017 at the age of almost 13, he had a stroke. He was blind and paralyzed...so he too received his angel wings.

Minko

 MrJackFreckles knew Toki, Suki and both Minko and Pipo...

He was officially the elder son's dog, but he lived with us all his life, even when son #1 moved out to his own apartment. MJF loved it when he would come over here to visit.

MJF lived to be just shy of his 16th birthday...he became an angel in Feb/2018.

MrJackFreckles

After MJF became an angel we got Dalton and a bit later we got Benji. Pipo was not impressed at all, but  was very adamant in 'telling' them his opinions and hissed them or whapped them at any opportunity, even if they were not paying attention to him, LOL! In 2020, he became rather 'geriatric' with various chronic ailments and seemed to have kitty dementia, if that actually is a thing. He became very thin and lethargic, and at his last vet visit, a large abdominal mass was felt, so we decided to end all the sufferings...and Pipo became an Angel as well...the last of all the meezers that have lived with us...

Pipo

 

The Angels on our 'Blog Identifier/Avatar' are the three Angels who started this blog...

So those are our Angels...may they enjoy all the fun at the RB, with their friends and relatives.

You can also join this blog hop by clicking on this caption.