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Fair Isabeaux, only about 12 years old, snatched away in an untimely manner by Vaccine Associated Sarcoma, after radiation therapy and surgery, on July 27, 2006.

( Don't let your vet vaccinate between the shoulders blades! If a sarcoma develops in a leg, it can be amputated, and the cancer stopped, or at least slowed.)

Beloved Isabeaux, I still miss your big personality terribly; but I look forward to seeing you, Chelsea, Ruby, Miss Penny, little dog persons, Angus, Twink, and Tammy, and all the little guinea pigs when I cross over.
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I am so sorry for your loss, we all are, May God Bless you and Sweet Isabeaux up in Heaven always, Jorge Click to view attachment

She is so very beautiful..her eyes are just gorgeous. I am so sorry it was her time.

I'm glad you had her the years you did. It is awful to see a vaccine was involved. I don't like what I read about vaccines anymore..especially for felines. I have read about cancer and vaccines.

If you have anymore pictures we would love to see them.

Hugs to you and your special Angel...Isabeaux. You both deserved so much more time together.

Judy

I just love the picture. Such a beautiful cat!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for the advice.

Thank you, Jorge, for your kind words. Are those three photos your angels, or are they still with you?

Isabeaux

and thank you, Judy!

I am trying to upload more images of Isabeaux -- here is one that I took in March of 2006, 4 months after surgery to remove the tumor. You can see the white patch of hair on her back where the hair that fell out after radiation grew back in. She had regained weight too. I thought we were out of the woods, but she began coughing in early July, and I had her put down July 27 when it was clear that her quality of life was poor.

It really is helpful to be able to talk to people like you about it. Non-cat lovers do not understand. Isabeaux was such a big personality that when she did something exclusively cat-like, like rolling around on the floor with a toy, I would have a nanosecond of surprise, and would then think, "O, that's right -- she's a cat."

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Kathleen

What an absolutely gorgeous, smiling cat! and I'm sure that cat had a beautiful life in your home. I hope all of our little fur kids are peaceful and happy and know how much we love them, miss them and cherish the memories.....
Mikki

thank you, Mikki! I know they appreciate it. In one of George Anderson's books, he tells the story of a woman who came in for a discernment, and a soul came through, identifying herself as the woman's daughter, Annie. Annie thanked the woman for her excellent care of Annie, especially in her last illness, but told the woman she needed to get on with her life, and not remain stuck in grief. (This website is very good for working that grief out). At the end of the discernment the woman told George that Annie was her cat.

I went to a discernment with George in Sept. of 2005, hoping to hear from another deceased cat, Chelsea, and from my parents. My Mother conveyed through George that all my companion animals who had crossed over were there with her. (Mom loved animals too).

(If you want the page reference on Annie, I can look it up!)

Kathleen

I absolutely do! You know, I want so, so badly to KNOW that my babies are well and that they know that I love them and miss them.....I just want to know that they are okay.
Thanks,
Mikki

Hi, Kathleen

Were Isabeaux's eyes as green as they look in that first picture you posted? I just can't get over her eye color. It is so beautiful.

When I think of the losses here and when I hear a story such as yours....I'm afraid the first words that come to my mind about the situation are really curse words...particularly "darn"...only not that nice. It is so frustrating and unfair that I get mad first, do my "cursing", and then..can talk in a nicer way.

As far as cat-like things...I have a 4 picture cartoon strip taped to the top of my monitor. It is from a cartoon called Pickles. They have a cat and this one is all about the cat.

The first picture shows the cat looking out a window at rain and thinking...I love being indoors on a rainy day.

The second shows the cat saying...It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.

The third one shows the cat being quiet.

The last one shows the cat turning around to the reader and saying....
What am I saying? I'm a CAT! I'm ALWAYS all warm and fuzzy!

It made me laugh when I first saw it and I had to tape it to my monitor..cause I really do agree that these sweethearts ARE ALWAYS all warm and fuzzy!

In real life, I remember my babies sitting in front of a window watching the rain and as the raindrops hit the window and slid trickling down the window...they always pawed at the raindrops ...trying to catch them. That made me laugh. That to me was my cat-like thing..or at least one of them that I remember right now.

This is the Tributes Section and so do tell us more stories of your princess. And more pictures.
You can look at my special ones in this Section also and see it is easiest (I found) to post one picture per reply. Once you post a picture..the software in this forum wants you to wait 20 seconds at least and then it can process the next one.

Looking forward to seeing more of those gorgeous eyes and hearing stories of her favorite things to do.

Again, I am so very sorry about such a senseless loss (vaccine responsible). You two were so entitled to much more time together but when they are called to go...we never win that battle.
But we do win each day, month, and year....they are part of our lives. We are so grateful for having known them. As my favorite saying of a Mom is: The pain of losing them will never ever be greater than the joy of knowing them.

Hugs to you and your special Angel, Isabeaux

Judy

Hi, again, Mikki!

Sorry to have been so long in posting a reply. I have to not visit this site too often because it makes me cry!

The book in which the account of the woman's cat Annie speaks to her through George Anderson is George Anderson's Lessons from the Light: Extraordinary Messages of Comfort and Hope from the Other Side. The Annie account is on page 306.

Go to amazon.com and enter the name of this book. On the left hand side of the page that contains the book title you will see an option this says "Search this book" with a place to enter words or a phrase. Type in "Annie" press Go, and a number of citations will pop up. Page 306 is the story, and you can read it right online.

Hope this is helpful!!

Kathleen

Mikki, I just went back to the amazon site and found that they don't have the entire story of Annie online, so grab the book from a library and read it there!

Mikki, I just went back to the amazon site and found that they don't have the entire story of Annie online, so grab the book from a library and read it there!

Hi, Judy!

I'm sorry for the long delay in responding to your lovely post. I always cry when I visit this page, so I have to pick a time when I'm not going anywhere with a crying reddened face.

Yes, Isabeaux's eyes were really that gooseberry green shade. Although she's been gone for two years, I just can't seem to get over her loss, perhaps because it seemed so unnecessary. I have lost 3 other babies too, but all from naturally occuring diseases, cancer and kidney failure. Miss Penny was about 12, Ruby was 15, and Chelsea was 17. But I must say I evny those folks who cats lived to 20 or more -- how wonderful that would be!

I read the tributes to your 3 little black cats, Little Guy, Keeper, and Little Girl. What very beautiful cats they were! Did you know that black cats are the last to be adopted from shelters? Some foolish hangover from the superstitious past, I guess. Yours were so gorgeous with their long coats. I'm glad you had them for long amounts of time. I can't imagine what it would be like to lose one after only a few years.

Thanks for the description of the Pickles cartoon strip. I'll check and see if our local paper carries it.

I found a very funny site on the web called http://icanhascheezburger.com/. It's photos of cats and sometimes other animals with captions. You can sign up to receive the new ones every day. And, you can send in your photos to be captioned, or you can write your own captions.

I will post more photos of Isabeaux and the others when I get through with the lengthly processing to convert then to JPEG, then upload them to Photobucket. I take most of my photos in RAW, so there is a bit of converting to do!

Kathleen

Thank you, sissycat. She was just as beautiful as her photos, even after her surgery when the hair on her back grew in white where it had fallen out after the radiation treatments.

Kathleen

Hi, Kathleen

I visited the link you posted and laughed at the crazy kitty pictures.

I agree with you about what happened to Isabeaux being unnecessary. The more I read about vaccines the more they scare me. My 3 were indoors and other than kitten shots...they didn't get anything else. I'm glad too I had them as many years as I did.

I'm glad to see the ages of your others also. I, too, wished mine would go into their twenties.
I think I read the oldest known is about 33 or so.

My 3 black kitties were born in my backyard to a feral mom. My new boy, Lucky, I got from the local SPCA and he looks like my boys Little Guy and Keeper. I always remember the news people on TV over the years saying no black cats could be adopted at Halloween and said people should keep their inside due to cruel things that could happen.

I didn't realize the prejudice about adoption until while looking last year for a boy to fill my empty home..I visited the web page of our local SPCA. I saw very few black cats. When I was ready, I did go visit and asked if they had a lot of black cats to look at. They said Yes..many. I said I wasn't sure cause I saw only 1 or 2 on the website where they post like 50 pictures. I was told they didn't put black cat pictures there cause black cats didn't photograph well. Of course you saw from my Tribute pictures of my 3 and also my New Beginnings pictures of Lucky that they photograph just fine. I didn't want to pick a fight so I just started looking around and indeed there were many black ones there. The one I picked was one whose eyes are so much like the eyes of my twin boys. I always find connections with pets...in the eyes.

I guess that's why your baby's eyes and their color just fascinate me..they are so beautiful.

I can understand why you are not over the loss. My Little Guy was a year ago and at times it is really hard (like I start crying just typing this sentence). We love them all but sometimes one just has a little special part of our heart. It makes it all so much worse when it is truly senseless.

About pictures...do you know you can upload a JPEG picture directly into a reply like this? That is how I did my Tributes. I just used a disposable camera, got 4x6 prints, scanned them and saved the scan as a JPEG file, reduced it to about 400x300 and uploaded it directly here in a post reply as you saw them.

About the Pickles cartoons..one other is a favorite of mine. I think the older couple in the cartoon has Pickles as their last name. (It is not the cat's name). I think the first one that really caught my eye was the man standing in front of a TV that had a VCR on top of it and the cat was on top of the VCR. The man called out to his wife complaining he couldn't turn on the VCR cause it was so complicated. The next picture shows the cat reaching down with his paw and pressing a switch. The last picture is the man calling out "Never mind".

Visit when you feel like it..that's what being here is all above. I confess I visit other topics here the most cause mine always bring back some pain but then my topic in D&D Section, I do write to my Little Guy at times. I'm glad to have the Tributes and New Beginnings pictures here cause it makes me feel they will all be part of the big Internet world ...hopefully forever. And anytime the pictures make someone smile...well...it makes me proud of those sweet babies for just being themselves, being adorable, and being a part of my life. I know you feel that way about all of yours and especially Isabeaux.

My pictures make me smile too when I can think of them as being part of the happy, healthy years I was lucky to have them.

Hugs,
Judy