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Mau-mau was tragically killed by a car on Wednesday 20^th April. She died instantly which is comforting and was still as beautiful as ever.  

As a kitten, she was abandoned by her mother. Left under a house with her little brothers and sisters to die.

Maumau, being the little fighter that she was decided to dig her way out from under the house, and did so, only to be taken by the house owner to the vet to be put down. The vet could not find it in her heart to put her down, not after her brave fight for survival, and so, the team at the Hellensville vet clinic began to nurse her back to health. You name it, she had it. Ringworm, lice, the flu, conjunctivitis, everything. She was the sickest and most frightened cat you’d ever seen.  
 

As fate puts it I ended up adopting her and becoming the mother she never had. $600 in vet bills and about 6 weeks later, she was the healthiest little kitten you had ever seen. She was extremely loyal to me, and was my special baby. She became my shadow, following me everywhere around the house, always insisting on being the absolute center of attention. She was a little fusspot, only drinking from a glass and she loved to finish my cereal in the mornings. She picked up my cleaning antics from a very young age, sweeping up her spilt kitty litter into little piles for me. When I would play my piano she would run in from outside and lie down next to me to listen.

She taught me how to love and open my heart and gave me a fondness for cats I had not previously known. The year she had was a good one, abundant with love, cuddles and snuggles. It helps me to know the last thing I said to her before she ran outside to play was “you are my beautiful princess and I love you so much”. Even after the accident she looked peaceful and beautiful. She was buried in a cosy little bed with her little tigger.

I wish like anything it didn’t happen and would do anything to bring her back, but as they say, everything happens for a reason. I like to think of her as my little angel, sent to me for just one year. A year I will never forget. Thank you Maumau.

A little follow up on my story. Last night (Monday 25^th April) a little black and white cat about the same age as Mau-Mau walked into my lounge, jumped onto my lap and started purring and fell asleep. It was so strange! It then went on to sleep on my bed, arranging my mink blanket around it to be all snug and then slept right through until this morning. I have never seen anything like it! I think it was her friend, looking for Mau-mau to go out and play, then decided it was warm and stayed in for the night. I hope it finds its way home. 

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Dearest Mi-Mu,

You came to us as a cute little kitten around September 1991.  Shortly after we got you, I had to go overseas for 7 months.  It was a pity that I totally missed your kitten hood, and I thought you would not remember me after I had been away for so long.  But surprisingly, the day I came home, you came straight to me like I had never been away.  From that moment, I knew we had a special bond that could never be broken. 

You had beautiful blue eyes, and luckily, you were not deaf like what people say about white cats with blue eyes.  You liked talking, and always seemed to be answering our questions! 


You never had a cat door to use until you were nine, but it didn’t take you long to learn (although you did pretend that you didn’t know how to use it when I was around so I would open the door for you!). 

On 2 August 2000, you became Pet of the Week on Bays and Remuera Times.  People were amazed to see that you would have three live mice on your back and not try to eat them!. 

I loved your cute way of cleaning yourself.  You lied on the bed, licking one hand while using the other to clean your ear - you were a cat who knew what multi-tasking is!  I loved sleeping in bed with you.  Very often you walked up to me in the middle of the night and started purring.  

Just recently you liked it more and more to sleep on my chest, and if I felt too heavy and turned sideways, you would not give up – you then sleep on my arm even though it was a very narrow space.  You were a cat with determination, too!

Here is some more proof!  When Chuffy & Biggles first died,
I was so scared about the outside world and I kept you and Buffy in the house all the time.  You were so determine to get out that you broke a whole on the insect screen and got out.  So I kept that window shut.  Then you figured out how to open the cat door from inside!  I would not have believed it if I didn’t catch you doing that myself!  So the cat door had to be locked both ways.  Luckily you didn’t come up with anymore ways to escape.  However, when I finally let you out during the day, you decided that you would make the most of it and quite often not come home till it was very late at night, even midnight. 

You were my most expensive cat!  As a white cat with pink ears and nose, you got skin cancer easily and you needed operations.  That was how you ended up with one ear only – half on each side!  And you had all sorts of non-life threatening sickness from time to time.  You just turned thirteen on 26/7/04, and a sudden illness took you away from me in only five days on 3/8/04.  I thought you were going to pull through this time too.  When the vet rang to say that you had passed away peacefully overnight, I couldn’t believe my ears

After Chuffy and Biggles died, whenever I called their names, you would come to me, rubbing your head against me, meowing, like you were trying to comfort me.  Now you are gone, when I call your name, who’s going to comfort me? 

Mi-Mu, thank you so much for the thirteen wonderful years we had together.  I keep thinking about the games we liked to play, and the things we liked to do, and wish that we could do it just one more time.  I know you were not impressed with me having all the other babies (especially the dog) in the family, but let mummy assure you again:  you always had (and still have) a special place in my heart.  My love for you never lessened because of the new babies. 

My good baby little girl, it’s hard to let you go.  You know you will live in my heart forever.  Rest in peace with Chuffy and Biggles, until the day we all meet again. 

Miss You Deeply

Mummy

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