remembering Zil

[woolymonkey]

Zil 28/06/1994 - 24/01/2010

Zil was my first cat of my own and the cat who taught musique_monkey , spidermonkey and squirrelmonkey to love cats (and not to pull their fur). She was very good with small monkeys and insisted on attending all their birthday parties, no matter how raucous.

She definitely saw herself as part of the family. While she was aware of the multiple inadequacies of apes, she was very patient with us. Possibly because she suspected she might be an ape herself. She liked to sit where we sat, eat what we ate, and used her paws like hands. If there's reincarnation, I reckon she'll be human next time round. I seem to be heading the other way so perhaps we'll meet with roles reversed. I hope she lets me have a livejournal.


Zil with me when she was just a kitten


Exploring outdoors


With her own kittens


Anything humans can do, Zil could do better


Relaxed kitty is relaxed


Washing Fruitcake


I thought I could stop her stealing my bedside water if I used a narrow glass...


...but I was wrong


This was Zil a few weeks before she died. I only took it because I'd just fitted my old sim into tamaranth 's old phone (kindly offered after I washed my one) and I needed a pic for wallpaper. Zil was on my lap--of course--so I took one of her.

Zil's lj is zil_n_fruitcake , which Fruitcake is doing her best to keep going, but the spelling just isn't what it was when Zil was in charge...

Comments

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

HA! I could've told you about the water (if I'd known you then). One of my cats annoys the hell out of the other by dirtying the water dish because instead of lapping from it, he likes to dip in his paw and lick the droplets off of it, LOL.

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

Ha! I gave up trying to stop her after that. When she came into the bedroom first thing I'd just put the glass on the floor. Easier than having her clamber over the piles of books on the bedside table.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

When I was a kid, I had pet rats: who would climb up to the lip of a tall narrow glass if there had been milk in it, lower their entire bodies in (while clinging to the rim with their back paws and balancing all with their tail), reach down and scoop up pawfuls of residual milk from the bottom...

PS

[desperance.livejournal.com]

I think that should have read "pawsful"...

Re: PS

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

Nah. I like pawfuls. Rats are smart.

[amenirdis.livejournal.com]

I think there's a nursing picture of me with exactly that same expression. What a lovely, lovely kitty! *hugs*

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

She was! And definitely a fertility goddess too. OK, so I was taking ovulation drugs, but they didn't work until Zil got pregnant!

I helped her look after her kittens and she helped me with mine. I'm sure that's how she saw it. Mine just took longer to grow up.

[hippediva.livejournal.com]

AWWWWWW! Such a pretty girl! I love her paw in the glass and the piccie of her as a proud mama! Thank you for sharing these. She was beautiful!

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

Thank you. There's something very cat like about the girl in your userpic.

[lj_stowaway]

What a lovely remembrance. She was a darling.

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

She was indeed. Glad you liked.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

She was a very lovely girl -- and those are special pictures.

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

Thanks. She was a real sweetie.