It's Tasha, taking a turn on the blog at last...some brothers (not mentioning any names of course) are such blog hogs. I may be a little cheeky sometimes, but deep down I am very thankful that I get to live here and get looked after so well. 
Today I thought that I would post a tribute to a very sick kitty called Ginger who went to the Rainbow Bridge last Friday, February 1. This is a photo of that little kitty that Mum took with her phone, so it's not great, but you can see what he looked like.
Mum's friend Amelia found him near the place where they both work. It's in an inner city suburb, but the building is actually on the Yarra River, so there is some vegetation around. Amelia loves animals like Mum, and has two kitties and two dogs at home. There was another local kitty (with collar and tag) keeping Ginger company when Amelia found him, which we thought was a very nice thing to do. Ginger was a small medium-to-long haired ginger kitty, without any collar. Mum said that little Ginger was extremely thin, and had been sick for some time. He was very weak, but he did drink some water that day. Amelia took him to visit her regular vet that afternoon to see if anything could be done to help him. There were some tests done, but the sad truth was that Ginger had been very sick for a long time, and there wasn't anything that the vet could do save him. The nice vet lady said that poor Ginger probably wouldn't survive the night, so Amelia made the difficult decision to have him put to sleep humanely, instead of suffering any more. Both Amelia and Mum were sad that he's gone, but glad that he wasn't suffering any more. As for me, well, I'm very glad that there are people who love animals and help them when they need a helping paw.
For more great cat blogging over the weekend:
Weekend Cat Blogging #140 Feb 9-10 Valentine’s Edition:Kashim & Othello (moved from Paulchen’s)(see the week’s& host to enter your WCB post in the comments for the weekend roundup)
Bad Kitty Cats Festival of Chaos Edition 31 - 02-10-2008Mom Robyn & The Hotties at Cat BlogosphereOptional Theme - Cats In Sinks (submit your post here)
The Carnival of the Cats #203 -Pet and the Bengal Brats at Pet’s Garden Blog Sunday Evening(submit your post here)
