valerie wrote: Boogie was a stray so I am not exactly sure of his age. He showed up about ten years ago
with a sore foot and some cuts on him. I don't know if he was born without a tail or if someone
cut his tail off. Hate to think about it and never ask the vet. Had him 'fixed' right away and
they said back then that he was probably a year or two old. Seems they say that about every
stray I have taken to the vet......a year or two old.

Boogie for the most part, does not like to be bothered. All he wants to do is sleep, make biscuits,
eat, and take care of his litter box. He looks at Bo as to say 'stupid dog'. Bo will run circles around
him. I think Boogie might play a bit more with him if Bo wasn't so rambunctious.

Unfortunately, Boogie's other eye is going bad. I guess his laziness is a good thing.

Did he only have the one eye when he came to you, too?

I had one-eyed kitty too, Beezer, we just lost him last year.

He had only one eye from just after birth, and actually was never supposed to be around for his many years, according to the vet. We found him laying in a pool of ?? (clear fluid, no smell) in the basement one day, and rushed him to the vet.
He was deemed as headed for death, and soon, but I said don't worry about the cost, if you can try to save him, About a week later they called and said "We can't believe it, but he's starting to improve", and he lived for A LOT of years after that.

I miss him every day, and he was the only pet I ever had pass away in my arms.

No, his bad eye was removed less than two years ago.

I had a house cat 'Mr Blue' that lived for 17 years. I had a little black cat that went in heat,
busted out a screen window, mated with a russian blue, had 4 kittens, and the last born was
Mr Blue. He was just a big long haired solid gray cat. Really good cat. He came down with
cancer of the jaw, of all things. He was in pain and at his age, there really wasn't anything
to be done. They said that cats can learn to eat without their jaw, if I wanted to take him
through the surgery. But, he was 17 and so I chose to have him put down and that was one
of the hardest things I have ever had to do.

Well, they are family. So it is very tough when they go to the rainbow bridge.

valerie wrote: Well, they are family. So it is very tough when they go to the rainbow bridge.

Too true, valerie.

They sure know how to tug on our heart strings, but I wouldn't ever give up the love, fun, and good memories I have shared with numerous fur family members all through my many years of life.

All cat lovers? Maybe a topic about: Show us your pets?