Cats.

The house is quiet but our cat Leo - seems to be dreaming - he just gave out 5 loud meows in his sleep - how weird! He has been missing for 5 days. He turned up early this morning meowing out the front of my parent's bathroom window. Been a weird day today for cats... my childhood cat Pipi passed away in the middle of the night. She lived to a grand age of 23 years - thats 170 years in cat age! The last couple days her body just seemed to shut down. She couldn't manage to take her regular walk to the lawn where she would sit in the sun and do her business and drink out the fountain at the pond. Her legs could no longer carry her fraile old body. We would find her stranded in the middle of the lawn looking like she could not walk back to her bed. We had to keep bringing her back to her bed. We gave her water to drink but she didn't want to eat. We knew it was any day that should would die. She stopped looking after herself along time ago - and her fur began matting and falling out - she looked like death! But she was still strong.
Pipi was one of 3 other kittens in a litter we found trapped under our house when my sister, brother & I were young. My dad rescued them as the mother was nowhere to be found. So we adopted them. We fed them with cow's milk from a suringe and they slept at the base of our fridge as it was warm. The ginger kitten died soon after - as it seemed sick. We revived the long-haired tabby named 'Sugar'. We found her lifeless one morning so we stuck her on the ducted heating and she came back to life! We saved Pipi's life as she was the most strongest kitten out the the 3 from choking on the rubber tubing attached to the suringe while feeding her milk!