This morning, while bringing the kids to school, I found our faithful cat Shadow laying in the road. He had been hit by a car and was killed. It's been a sad day in our household. Shadow was a very loving cat. He had a very tiny meow - he'd open his mouth to cry and a little tiny squeek would come out. He had nice long hair and loved to be pet.
Shadow came to us as a two day old kitten. He was abandonded by his mother, who was a stray cat living on the Army Base I worked at. The gate guards asked me if I wanted a kitten and instead of taking just one, we took the whole litter in. The first night we stayed up feeding the kittens with bottles. The following day we were able to capture the mother (who had left the kittens alone for two days) and secluded her with the kittens. Luckily the mom turned out to be a good mom and took very good care of her kittens. We found a home for all of the kittens but kept Shadow and his brother, Ari.
I thought I'd share some photos of Shadow - in his memory.
 
 
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I'm so sorry. Peace be with you and your family.