[Leica] Slides the cat has gone to kitty heaven

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

To the many LUGnuts who have had the pleasure of meeting my longtime of 20
years cat and favorite photosubject, Slides the Calico, she died peacefully
Monday of renal failure.
Which is what usually gets old cats. Their kidneys. She had gotten heart
breakingly thin.
Here is a picture of Slides and me a few years ago in which Tom Christianson
took in my studio.
http://students.washington.edu/tomchr/pictures/Summer2001/Portland/Portland.
htm
I think with his Contax 645 and transparency film.

Slides and I shared the same pillow since my wife (of 25 years) left a few
years ago. Hard luck story my mom died last year too. I've said this already
on list. Everybody was sympathetic.

So now its just the boys. Elmo the 100 pound German Shepard and me in this
photo studio household. Elmo seems a little wistful about Slides being gone
but does not mind being the unchallenged master of the household. Slides had
that title before.
I'm the bottom of the totem pole for sure. The runt of the litter. But as
I'm set up to be less "pack like" then Elmo it doesn?t bother me so much.
Elmo is into total domination. He doesn?t play with other dogs.
He wants to invade Poland.
He wants people to throw his ball and has never bitten anybody.
I've decided to not get another cat. I'm getting rid of the kitty artifacts
around the house/stuido but I'm not being obsessive about it. When I see a
toy of hers I don?t get all upset which is nice.
Elmo is 10 and when he goes in 5 or 10 years I'll take a slow trip around
the world in a nuclear powered hydrofoil. And not have to worry about a
critter sitter. Just a Hasselblad sitter.

In kitty heaven Ahai Tuna is served on demand cooked medium rare on little
snack plates.
Although I think Sides would go for the beefsteak. She loved cow.
Give her a can of Aberdeen-Angus of the sea any day.
I fed her only beans, rice and brewers yeast her first years of her life as
we had vegetarian household. She was the smallest kitty on the block I'm not
sure if that's why. But she had enough attitude for a kitty three times her
size. She normally weighed 8 pounds.
I'll have a slides memorial page going up I got the Nikon 5000 yesterday
night to reward myself for having a dead cat and living to tell about it. I
buried her in my backyard in my pet cemetery. There was no 21 gun salute but
a few birdies flew overhead and dipped their wings it seemed like.
She had to have been the most photographed cat in the north west usa.

Toward the end after a tough day of not feeling so well during bedtime she
would push her forehead really hard into mine as we fell asleep on the
pillow. I'll never forget that.

But no anchovies for me please
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Mark Rabiner