Goodbye to Gravy

Gravy was a beautiful, 17 year old, black cat with a kink in her tail.  DH and I got her when she was just a kitten.  She has always been my cat.  She would sit on my lap and give me love bites when I pet her tummy.  She would use her paws to put my hands in the right place - and keep them there.  Unfortunately, she'd been sick for the last few years with a thyroid problem.  We had her on medication, but she still lost lots of weight (over 1/2 of her body weight).  In the last few weeks she was having trouble walking straight and her back legs often failed when she jumped off of the couch.

Christmas - 2008

I will miss her very loud purr the most.  I will also miss her eccentricities.  She loved laying on any kind of paper and she liked to chew on plastic bags.