Pootie was sick last week, and it looked like she wasn't going to make it. I cried and cried. We've only had her for a few years, but shes about 12 or 13 now. She was near death when she found me outside, starving, ulcers in her eyes, exhausted. She cried at me so persistently, she was determined to get help. She saved me in this weird way. Being able to scoop her up, so easily in her frantic state, and taking her inside to sleep for three days on my bed. She's been my furry little girl ever since.
She's feeling a little better now. Arthritis. Glucosamine, low dose aspirin, prednisone, heating pad, cat steps, mattress on the floor.
Here are my Top Ten about Pootie:
- Pootie has a little tear in her ear. It gives her character. It makes her kinda badass, like she's earned the pink collar with the black skulls on it. I imagine a fight with a big tom whose ass she kicked.
- Pootie gives kisses with her wet nose. Sometimes she snubs when she's pissed.
- Pootie begs for water all the time. I think it's her liver, but maybe she's just a widdle princess.
- Pootie greets us every time we walk in the front door. She doesn't know if we've been gone a week or five minutes, but she blares out a call whenever we come in.
- Pootie rubs on the corner of my laptop to scent it. She has written some of my crappier comments here, too. All the ones with no recs, in fact.
- Pootie is a survivor. She's smart as hell. I'm not even backing that one up. She lived through being all on her own, eating bugs.
- Pootie loves watching out of the window. Full stop.
- Pootie exposes her belly and draws her front paws up to her chest. She trusts us and she's awesome.
- Pootie singed her eyebrows off during the night when playing with a loose macbook pro cord over the heater. We lost more than an $80 cord that night-we lost her delicate, priceless whiskers. From then on we have called her "Singe", or "Miss Singe".
- Lastly, Pootie is a bad-ass huntress. Please check out her smashing debut, to great critical acclaim:
for those of you at work or who are otherwise unable to check out the video, here's the transcipt:
(roaring sounds of music)
jingling tags
MAAAAAAAAAAAAOOO
MOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAOOOOOO
(click click click of nails)
(click click)
OOOOwWWWWW
OOOOWWWWWWOOOOWOOO
aawoooa
MAOOOOOOOO
oooooooWWWWWW
OOOOOw
(jingle jingle)
oooowwww
oOWWWWWWW
owowowowo
owowowowo
Mao?
owowowo
oowowow
owowow
owowowoo
aaaaaaaawo
aaaaaaaawo
aaaawo
awwwwo
owowo
(thunderclap)
mao?
(edited for spelling)