After a very (sudden) and long 2 weeks, my boyfriend and I let our sweet, so very loved, almost 14 year old Maine Coon Marley pass on yesterday.
Marley was our world. She was such a unique and special girl. And so beautiful. In her glory days she tipped the scale at 22 lbs, all lean muscle and long silky fluff. Vets always commented on how healthy and well taken care of she was. Her world revolved around us just as much as ours did around her. I've never come home and opened my door to her not sitting directly where I need to step, to say hello and demand treatsies of some kind as she rubbed up against my legs, until today. She was a feisty girl, but gave the best snuggles. She always slept with me on my side of the bed, stretched out against me, and purred me to sleep. Through the hardest times I've been through, my dads passing, my own hospitalization I almost didn't come home from, when my mom needed emergency brain surgery, she was always by my side. My giant fluffy rock who would lick the tears off of my face as she gently butted her head up against it, telling me she was there.
And she was also such a daddy's girl also. Her favorite spot was stretched out along my boyfriends lap, along his leg like a fluffy cheetah on a tree branch. And he loved her so so much. My heart breaks even more for him. He is in college full time, and the last year and a half, Marley has lied next him, for hours while he studied and did homework. He finished his last final of the summer yesterday,1 hour before the home vet came to help us let her go. She made sure to stay until he was finished.
From her cheerful chirps (she was a big talker, one of the things we loved so much about her) to her quiet "purr-meows", to her pissed of yowl when you touched that wrong spot on her belly...we miss every tiny piece of her, and our house is so lonely now. She eased into her final cat nap, in mine and Jeff's arms, as we talked and snuggled and kissed her to sleep at home. Her last little kitty breath was so peaceful, and we are so thankful that she could leave that way. She sleeps next to my besties cat Melvin now, in the shade of a big tree next to a small creek out in the quiet country. We love you so much Marley, thank you for being so good to us. If love could of kept you here, you would of lived forever.
Thank you for reading this, its never an easy decision to make, and never right or wrong. Your always going to want one more day, think that they have one more day. Watch your kitty, and follow your heart.
P.S. Screw you cancer!
Marley was our world. She was such a unique and special girl. And so beautiful. In her glory days she tipped the scale at 22 lbs, all lean muscle and long silky fluff. Vets always commented on how healthy and well taken care of she was. Her world revolved around us just as much as ours did around her. I've never come home and opened my door to her not sitting directly where I need to step, to say hello and demand treatsies of some kind as she rubbed up against my legs, until today. She was a feisty girl, but gave the best snuggles. She always slept with me on my side of the bed, stretched out against me, and purred me to sleep. Through the hardest times I've been through, my dads passing, my own hospitalization I almost didn't come home from, when my mom needed emergency brain surgery, she was always by my side. My giant fluffy rock who would lick the tears off of my face as she gently butted her head up against it, telling me she was there.
And she was also such a daddy's girl also. Her favorite spot was stretched out along my boyfriends lap, along his leg like a fluffy cheetah on a tree branch. And he loved her so so much. My heart breaks even more for him. He is in college full time, and the last year and a half, Marley has lied next him, for hours while he studied and did homework. He finished his last final of the summer yesterday,1 hour before the home vet came to help us let her go. She made sure to stay until he was finished.
From her cheerful chirps (she was a big talker, one of the things we loved so much about her) to her quiet "purr-meows", to her pissed of yowl when you touched that wrong spot on her belly...we miss every tiny piece of her, and our house is so lonely now. She eased into her final cat nap, in mine and Jeff's arms, as we talked and snuggled and kissed her to sleep at home. Her last little kitty breath was so peaceful, and we are so thankful that she could leave that way. She sleeps next to my besties cat Melvin now, in the shade of a big tree next to a small creek out in the quiet country. We love you so much Marley, thank you for being so good to us. If love could of kept you here, you would of lived forever.
Thank you for reading this, its never an easy decision to make, and never right or wrong. Your always going to want one more day, think that they have one more day. Watch your kitty, and follow your heart.
P.S. Screw you cancer!
Condolences on the loss of your precious girl. Marley was the quintessential Maine Coon! In your tribute, I recognize many of the traits of my own J.C. and my heart breaks knowing how especially empty your home is now. I salute you for making the painful decision to release her before her situation became desperate. MCs, especially, have intense dignity, never wanting to appear feeble or needy. They are big, magnificent kitters, intelligent, entertaining, expressive but never groveling. Marley had gorgeous markings, I can see where the myth of raccoons and cats cross-breeding came from. Again, my condolences.
