I had just quit my job and went over the road with SU. We were in Texas headed south on I-35. We stopped at a truck stop just north of Austin to get something to eat and rest for a while. Our waitress seemed distracted and kept disappearing with scraps of food off tables. We over heard her talking about a kitten that someone had just left outside. After we ate, SU decided to go outside and take a look. He came back in the store and ask me to go look.
She was so small and I could see how she looked like the cat that I just had to say good by to months earlier (Trip). My heart sank. How could I just leave this little helpless kitten. So long story short. We decided to take her and keep her. That was three years ago. She stole my heart and has been like no other cat that I have had.
Now my heart is broken because she is gone. All I can do is pray that someone, like CTR Man and Kittylynn has found her and that she is in good hands.
This is Copy Cat just after we found her.
This is my Favorite pic of her.
This is the funniest pic of her.
This is the pic that SU used once as his avatar on O.com
Since that one day we found her, we had been inseparable for the most part. With the exception of a few overnights that I stayed at the hospital with my Dad. I will always be remember how she would want to sit in my lap as we drove down the road. She would always look up at me as if to say "Mommy Hold Me." as in this pic.
So at this time and with heavy heart; I put her, where ever she is; in God's Hands.
Heavenly Father, Please take care of my Copy Cat where ever she is tonight.
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woodbutcher wrote: What about the ID chip you had her fitted with? That is what it is for!
I have checked with the pound and no one has turned her in yet. The chip cannot be seen or really even felt. You have to have the equipment to scan it, and if you do not know that it is there then can't see it. If she has lost her collar, then she would have no sign of the chip on her.
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Reminds me of when I had my cat in the truck. He would ride up there a lot. Whenever i would reach up there for the laminated map book, it would be anchored down with his ass. I swift tug and the book was mine and then he would glare over the side at me with the "what the hell?" look.
If he was up there, the second that the brakes popped, bam! He was out of there, off the top of one of the seats and "meow" time was in full effect. He knew his truck too, one time I was walking him on his leash and he saw an open truck door, he jumped up in as he always does, and took one wiff, and out he came even faster.
Another time we parked for the night outside of a dump of a truck stop in South Atlanta area, I believe it was a TA at the time, but still a dump just the same. We had eaten at the Waffle House, and I refused to pay for parking at the truck stop, so we were parked outside of it and accross the street from the Waffle House. When we would sleep he would sit in the window of the truck between the curtain we put up and the window and watch. Whenever someone was near he would start meowing. Well about 2:30 in the morning he started just going crazy, so I got up to take a peek out side and saw nothing, so I sitting there with him peaking out the window and he wont shut up. About a minute later a swarm of cop cars show up at the Waffle House, the place had been held up by a group of thugs. Don't know if they ever caught the thugs or not, but Jasper is always willing to go to court and share what he saw, they will jut have to find an interpeter.
Does CC have his tags on still? As you know, the chip is not visable. Unfortunately, many vet offices DO NOT scan for chips on pets, so if someone brings him in and says he is theirs, they may never catch it, and if they do, how are they to know that it is not suppose to be there. While a good idea for the honest, and a 100% ID for someone who is looking, it still only gives a code, which must be called into an 800 number who then provides the information on the animal.
