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Topic: Bogie, the greatest cat that ever lived!
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted November 24, 2014 12:09 PM
I hope you don't mind me sharing this, but I put this up on facebook, and if you are a cat lover, I hope you enjoy it.
" Dediacated to Bogie, the worlds greatest cat!
I don't know if I have ever posted about this before, but I got all emotional over a cat I used to own (or the cat owned me), by name of "Bogie".
I named him "Bogie" because, he had a meow that sounded like he had been chewing gravel for years and it really sounded exactly the way Humphrey Bogart would sound if he was to say "Meow", (probably in conjunction with looking at lovely Lauren bacall, no doubt!).
Bogie was a Siamese Chocolate point. I found him outside of a recording studio when I was doing my first album way back in 1992 or so. He must have been lost and he looked about "middle aged" for a Siamese. I petted him a little and when I saw that he was still outside when I was going home, I decided to take him home, (the recording studio was out in the middle of the desert with no homes anywhere near ... perhaps some louse dropped him off out there to get rid of him. I wouldn't put that past most fellow human beings).
Well, after about a year, Bogie started to go downhill, healthwise. I bought the best cat food I could find (those brands that were nutritionally balanced for aging or sick cats), but slowly but surely, Bogie got worse, so bad that he couldn't properly use the catbox anymore. Though I would hate to do it, I worried for days as to whether I should have Bogie put to sleep, as I hated to see him suufer as he was.
Then, out of nowhere, Bogie, had an excellent day. Where for months he hadn't wanted to cuddle or play, he suddenly came up, snuggled purred, played and did eberything he had done in his better days.
Then, after all of this, Bogie climbed down and went to the door, meowing to be let out (he hadn't done that in a long time as well), so I let Bogie out.
Bogie never returned.
At that time, I lived on the outskirts of Mountain Home, right next to the desert, and I'm betting that Bogie went out and I would like to think that he just went to sleep out in desert and died. I never found his body, though I looked all over.
I think that, on that last day, Bogie put aside all the pain he was feeling, and he wanted to have one last happy day, (I can't help but cry right now, sorry, have to pause
He wanted to have one last day, the way he used to be, just to say "goodbye"
Maybe he was saying, "Thank you for not putting me to sleep and letting me die my way" ... Have to pause again
I have never met a cat as awesome as Bogie, he was one damn fine cat and I still miss him to this day. If, when we get to heaven, we get back all good things, I hope to God that Bogie will be there, and we can be together again
I love you Bogie "
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"All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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