Little Misty Blue

Hello everyone,
A bit of a sad post today..
Yesterday evening Misty, one of the cats, started to cry in pain and lost the use of her back legs, which were ice cold.  I called the vet and she was pretty sure it was a blood clot, she explained over the phone that there was little chance of a happy resolution, so we made the decision to euthanase.
I know many of you have four-legged family members and you know how that feels, it was a shock that it all happened so quickly!  Misty came and had her tea when I got home from work and less than an hour later, she was forever sleeping!
This is what Misty looked like when we first got her, 12 and a half years ago, she was only 4 weeks old and had only just started to lap.  She had been found at a day or two old, next to her dead mother.  She was looked after by a lady Simon knew, while she needed to be intensively cared for and then came to us.  She was a scruffy little bundle!

She was the prettiest of colours, a sort of grey, peach and cream mixture.  We had two 6 month old cats at the time and once they got used to the idea she was around, Megs took Misty under her wing and became her 'Auntie'.  Misty followed her everywhere and they remained friends, in fact only the previous evening, they were snuggled up together on my lap.
Misty was a funny little thing, she used to come running in, all proud of herself because she had 'caught' one of the neighbour's Fuchsia flowers!  She disappeared one day and turned up in one of the neighbour's bedroom windows - they had been packing the car to go out for the day and had the house door open and Misty had sneaked in!  Luckily, they had left the window slightly open and we managed to get her to jump on the porch roof, where Simon could reach her.

We will lay her to rest under her favourite shrub in the front garden later this morning, Good bye Misty Blue, we will miss your quirky little ways RIP.