We love you Samba Kitty

We Love You Samba Kitty
(April 1, 2001 to July 26, 2005)

Our Goodbye Letter To Samba

Dear Samba:

Here is a list of only a few of the things that we think of when we think of you...

her meow sounds like "murow"

bird noises in the window

snuggles under the covers and in the crook of your legs

she's a hold kitty, not a lap kitty

the honeymoon for a few days after we've been away

trimming her nails while she lays on her back

rides on our shoulders in car (never travelled in a carrier)

favourite sleeping chairs: attic ikea chairs, Marc's office rocking chair, sun porch couch

you smell so good

just needs leash on and then she won't try to run away!

loves basking in sun on dining room floor

at 275 Delaware, she would play fetch the small balls down the stairs 15 times in a row

not messy in the litter box, and sometimes just scratches on the sides

waking us up early by scratching on our door

waiting outside our bedroom, on the landing of the stairs in the morning, waiting to be fed

she's very tolerant of Célia. Célia can give her big hugs and kisses and poke her eyes.

she'll let you know when she's had enough when the tail starts swooshing and she starts to bite

jumps up on window in basement as we come down the steps to feed her

loves to play with toy that has string on a stick

she absolutely destroys the little mice with the plastic core

Marc is a better mouser than Samba :-)

hilarious when she goes "snaky"

loves to have water poured slowly into the bathtub so she could drink at the drain

did catch several mice in her career

loved to eat bugs until she ate a huge centipede

loves to play the try-and-make-the-bed game

loves to purr when you hold her

eats nothing but her catfood ... unless Célia drops some peas/cheerios for her, and then she would occasionally eat them.

loves to drink water out of the plastic hockey cups from 7-11

love hearing the sound of Samba going through the cat flap

loves to help us read the newspaper on the bed by lying on it and refusing to move

loves to jump into our hockey bag when we get home after a game

loves to lie on our shoes

Célia chasing Samba on all fours, and Samba pretending to let her get close

her favourite scratching post: our wooden shoe rack

loves to sign in our greeting cards/letters

has her own email: samba@whockey.com

elastic eating episode, when she was a kitten

hopped up on goofballs

travelling kitty - went all the way to Kap, ran down halls in hotel!

scared the poop out of Georges

often walks with a hook in her tail

scratching on shower curtain to get water

scratching on bed covers to wake us up to feed her

you pull out a grey chair from under the table in the kitchen and notice it's heavier than usual ... another one of Samba's favourite sleeping places!

Célia calls her "am", "ba ba", or "titi". Samba lets Célia give her big hugs and kisses.

We love you so much Samba Kitty and we thank you for bringing such joy to our lives. We are going to miss you dearly! We will never forget you. God bless you.

Love, Andria, Marc, and Célia