Another one gone! Buffy 2001-2009

My old cat Buffy is not coming when I call. This is the second morning and she must have tried to fight off the cayotes for her kittens. Last night I locked them all in. She was on the porch Sat. night at 3AM, so between then and daylight she was gone. I feel so guilty, for not forcing them inside and closing the cat door. My air conditioner is so loud that I never heard a ruckus at all. She would not leave these kittens voluntarily as she was still nursing them. I hate that she ended this way, although she has never been happy without kittens around her. My plans were to get her spayed this fall. She was my oldest and wisest cat, having lived most of her life outside, until this past year when the cayotes had gotten the other inside females who would fight with her, so every year she would have her kittens across the street in the buildings of the tank business, and when they would get old enough to follow her, she'd bring them to the house to learn to eat. The only trouble was they were so wild you couldn't catch or pet them and of course many didn't make it. Sheba and one alley cat colored male, are 3 years old and wild, and Ember is two, and Casper and Ashley are one, then her babies that lived this year are Willy and Rhett and Dusty and Wanita.
Buffy had Lots of skin problems and I think I was just getting a handle on what was causing them, as she was getting better and was not scratching as bad, after using Ivemec on her.
She was so smart, that when I told her last year, that if she wants her babies to make it she was going to have to bring them sooner so we could keep them from being so wild. That very afternoon while I was at work she carried four large kittens and one little runt over and brought them in the house. The little runt was Betty Boop.
More latter! So long my sweet old girl!

Found the little Gray baby dead right here by the step on the back porch. I guess it was not mint for me to have a solid steel grey kitty. The old Gray Tom got sick and died, but blue is still around.