Sageti has died.

[helen99]

When I adopted Sassua almost a year ago, I had intended it to be a temporary fostering until she could be transferred to a permanent home. The original plan had been to give her to a friend who had expressed interest. However, that never happened because I wanted to do the ingrown claw surgery first. The ingrown claw surgery got put off until very recently, though, and meanwhile that person found a stray kitten and took her in. Then I tried to give her to aekiy, but as he doesn't know where he's going to be staying or what finances will actually be like once he leaves here, he didn't feel right about taking on that responsibility right now. So... Here I was with this cat. I love her, but I already have four cats (who don't necessarily get along with her very well), and I also kept getting the feeling she didn't actually belong to me exactly. Of course I wouldn't dump her or give her to someone I didn't know. Meanwhile she planted herself on the top step leading to the upstairs where rialian lives. We'd thought she just found that area comfortable and safe to sleep, and we were actually a little annoyed at having to step over her enormous girth every time we tried to go up and down the stairs (it made it kind of dangerous). But it turned out she had something else altogether in mind.

Meanwhile, about a week ago, rialian's cat Sageti passed on (he said it was ok to mention it at this point - some may know this already). It was rather sudden and unexpected - he seemed healthy enough, and his fur was glossy and he hadn't lost any weight. This past year he had seemed to slow down a little, but nothing notceable or alarming (and he was 12 years old, so we thought it was 'normal' for his age). But one day, he was just ... gone. It was very much like Sageti, actually. He had lived his life very quietly and in the background, content to follow rialian from room to room while he was upstairs, and to sleep while people were out or downstairs. The second floor of the house was his territory, as he really didn't like the other cats (except Oosie, who is aerodynamic and not confinable to any one part of the house). At night, he would jump up on the bed and purr, and during the day he would sleep in a cool spot by the chair. We found him by the chair - apparently he had passed in his sleep.

A week after he passed on, Sassua arose from her perch at the top of the stairs. Someone had momentarily opened the stairway gate that we had installed to guard Sageti's territory. Like a large white mist, she slipped in unnoticed and quietly took over the upstairs. She has mostly been upstairs ever since, only coming down to say hello once in a while. My cats are not displeased...

Thus have I finally found a home for Sassua, rialian's new cat...

Comments

[helen99.livejournal.com]

That's pretty cool! The name Rialian originally gave her was H'sah. That became Sassua, partially because I had thought aekiy might want her and he came up with that name, and also because it was easier to pronounce. But now who knows - it might gravitate back to H'sah, now that she's chosen who she wants to be with. Maybe that's why the name Sassua didn't occur in the dream. Either way I'll probably call her "Sah-Sah-Belle" or "The Planet Tattulyne", though, so it doesn't matter to me... Do you remember any more of the dream?

[laurelindel.livejournal.com]

OK, that is strange. All I remember of the dream was that I was talking to Rialian in the living room and he said, "I have another cat" or "I have found another cat", or "I found a new cat" and we went upstairs, and sitting upstairs - I don't remember which room - there was a white cat with a single black spot on its back.

He said her name, which I didn't remember anything of other than the fact that it began with an "H" sound and ended with an "ah" sound, and it was a name I'd never heard before.

[helen99.livejournal.com]

She hasn't a black hair on her body, but she does have a shaved patch on her back toward the left side because of that morphine patch they put on her when she had her ingrown claws removed. That thing caused more damage than the claw removal. It's taken this long for the bare area left by removing the tape and residual tape gunk (ouch!) to finally cover over with a thin layer of hair which will hopefully soon grow out. I think a thin layer of skin was removed along with the tape. The healed and peach-fuzzed shaved area looked slightly darker/more pinkish than the surrounding bright white fur - it's lightening as the hair grows back.

[helen99.livejournal.com]

She's lucky she didn't get stuck with the name I gave her when I first got her - nobody (including me) could pronounce it: "Hatshepsut". I kept mispronouncing it "Hap-she-put". "Susu" is much easier...