The day Bob died ( the first time)
They say cats have seven lives right? Well yesterday our cat BOB died…and came back
to life…( no not literally…keep reading)
Elijiahs piano teacher is a friend, but also the mother of
our neighbor Genevieve….and as such Naveve the piano teacher comes to our home,
knows our cats, is a cat lover herself etc…
Well on her way out of our neighborhood she called Gen( our
neighbor) and said…you might want to call Amber and ask if Bobs in the house….I
think it’s a possibility however that if not, Bob has been run over…it looks
like Bob that has just been hit on the road….Gen immediately called me and
asked if Bob was around and I said nope, put him outside this am, why? And so
she told me. Well as you can imagine I
was very worried – Elijiah and I got in the car and went over to where the cat
was hit and was killed. We knew it was
bob. It was him. 100% sure.
However my first thought was where was his collar? Then I dismissed it as it could have easily
fallen off when he was struck….Elijiah was completely distraught as Bob was “his”
cat. Always favored by him and Bob took
to him specifically as well…..anyway Im on the side of the road not exactly
sure what to do- so I call Jonathan at work and he decided to leave work and
come get him from the side of the road and we could have a proper burial later
that night. Genevieve called me at the
same time told me to go home and she was coming to do the grisly deed of
picking him up so Elijiah didn’t need to be waiting anymore etc.
So the day begins….
Jonathan arrives home a few minutes after Gen delivers “Bob”
in a cardboard box to our house and Jonathan inspects him as well and
determines yes its Bob but likewise wonders about the collar….So he spent the
next 30 minutes constructing a coffin for our precious cat wraps him and seals
the box and we decide to bury “Bob” in the backyard later that night. He had to get back to work and while I was
trying to work from home yesterday- the events, Elijiahs continued sadness and
crying were a bit of a distraction so I was fairly unproductive for a while….
Anyway about an hour later Jonathan emails me….saying
something along the lines that as he was at the scene of the crime…he looked
extensively around for Bobs collar….Elijiah really wanted it and we thought that
we could frame it for him and it would be a good memory piece…so he says that
while he couldn’t find it he had a doubt that perhaps it wasn’t Bob” even
though he had handled the cat himself…he wasn’t sure now. I immediately pushed him off saying to myself
“ HELLO how many cats look EXACTLY like him in the neighborhood and of course
its Bob!
But then I felt the same….maybe it was a twinner and we didn’t
know there was another cat just like him!
Jonathan decided that when he returned home he would open the casket…check
the cat for front claws( we had Bob declawed).
So in the mean time…we had been searching through old photos for
memories, ones that we could frame in the house of Bob and the kids…and talking
about if we should get another cat…..Gen had come over with Dinner for us- and
she and I were swapping funny and sad cat stories….
Jonathan came home with Tristan ( which Tristan was super
funny…marching up to the neighbors to announce that Bob had died) and so the
yucky task of looking over the mangled dead cat became Jonathans….
He discovered claws….so immediately Jonathan told us….um….this
isn’t Bob! Elijiah lit up! Tristan said “What? Bobs not dead?” and all
the grieving and crying of the day was replaced by….we almost buried someone
elses cat in our yard! And since its not
Bob whos is it? Well Sherrell- Gens
daughter told us that her friends cat that looked like Bob disappeared about a
month ago and it could be theirs…
Well long story short after Jonathan retrieved the cat yet
again for another families inspection, comparing photographs it was determined
it was indeed their cat. So we provided
them the ready made casket( albeit we turned some of the panels the opposite
direction so they didn’t see our RIP BOB with dates and loving inscriptions…we
handed “Bob” over to them to take home.
Jonathan was a little sick to his stomach given the handling
of the dead cat so many times during the day and wouldn’t you know…not an hour
later…BOB comes sauntering up to the backyard fine as can be of course….which
made us all a little more happy to see him and appreciate the silly thing. After the days events Jonathan did a very
indepth inspection of Bob and did say that honestly the markings and specific
size and everything were identical…it was really the collar/claws that made the
difference to us knowing it wasn’t our cat.
So Elijiah is happy….we are happy, but likewise it was a
very odd and emotional day in which Bob came back from the dead.
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