Please add Max to the Bridge list (not FELV)

[Gloria B. Lane]

Max, a sweet 15 year old Siamese kitty, lived most of his life with a woman 
who loved him.  When she left - she died I think, on the east coast. He was 
driven to Arkansas and left in the care of her relatives, who didn't want 
him!  They were afraid he would die -  and actively looked for someone else 
to take this venerable devoted aging cat.  It's so sad that people do that, 
but they do.

He was lucky - Susan welcomed him with open arms and loved him, but the 
shock of moving so much and changing homes and families was too much for 
old Max.

Today, after only a few weeks, he went into kidney failure and died, 
peacefully on Susan's bed, well loved and cared for, surrounded by 2 
understanding older Siamese cats and a young gray tabby who lay quietly by 
him, also with humans trying to attend to him from time to time.  Maybe it 
sounds strange, but it was beautiful, peaceful, spiritual, a good way to go 
- drifting on among cool cats and friends who care, in a quiet room on a 
soft bed.

We buried him in a friends back yard, way back, near the gulley, on kind of 
a high place under a tree, with a poem and some flowers and a prayer.  It's 
a place where other kitties wander and look around, a good place for a good 
cat - Max.

Gloria