I think the cats need their own page on the family website, as they were part of the family. They are both gone now, so this page is a memorial to both of them.
Tessa (R.I.P. 2005 – 2023)
We got Tessa as a kitten for a Christmas gift 2005. She was cute for awhile, then she went from “little puff ball” to “gigantic (and fat) lion”. It’s kinda pathetic, but we still called her baby. She passed away February 2023 from an unknown illness.
Rosie (the cool cat R.I.P. 2005 – 2024)
Rosy was a street cat and had kittens while in the SPCA Red Deer. We needed a mouse assassin when we moved into the trailer on the acreage and she was our hired gun.
When we moved into the house she was honourably discharged from active service duty. The transition to civilian life was a struggle but adapted by patrolling the house ‘just in case’.
In 2023 Rosie became blind but soldiered on. Old age and kidney failure took her in June 2024.
She was named after this book: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3801455W/Rosie_the_cool_cat
