A Pet's Goodbye

From: Julianne (Sunnygal12345@aol.com)
Story type: Ghost
Location: Home in bed
Source: Form Submission

A few months ago, my about 18-year-old cat died. She was our pet before my birth. Stinky, she was named (I didn't name her), was getting kinda thin and...well...old. She watched over me when I was a baby-I am 13 now-and had had kittens. On one very early Saturday morning or very late Friday night, as said a few months ago, I felt a cat (we had two then) leap up onto my bed and curl up on my ankles. I was kinda drowsy and forgot that the door to my room was closed. I wouln't be back at Dad's until Monday afternoon after school. Well, I woke up Saturday morning and told my dad that one of the cats-I thought it was Garf, the younger cat we had-had jumped onto my bed and slept with me. Dad told me that the door had been closed all night and a cat couldn't have gotten in my room. Monday afternoon, when Dad picked me up from school, he told me that Stinky had to be put down that morning.

I looked at a picture my mother was going to give my father in memory of Stinky. It was when I looked at the pictures in the card-one of a tiny me sleeping and a younger Stinky curled up next to me keeping an eye on me-I realized that she laid with me somehow (she was still alive Saturday-hmmm), maybe spiritually, to tell me that she loved me.