1,366,332 @ 3:36 am
I thought I saw a bunny rabbit...I did...I did...I did see a bunny rabbit.
Jayden was under my bed. I awoke around 11:30 pm...must have fallen asleep at 6:30 pm Monday night...thought it was 3 in the morning. Well...as I write this, it is 3:38 am.
I hardly slept the night before concerned for my kitty. So I'm on the point of exhaustion, not a good space to be in when life decisions have to be made.
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She jumped on my chest at about 2:30 pm Monday afternoon...the old gal was fading fast when she was quite active the past week. She hugged my arm, her little paw reached out to my arm and hugged me. I gave her quality time and we set a vet appointment up for 1 pm Tuesday. The doctor's office said that they can always bounce back, and she has in the past few months. But her age was at least 16, possibly older. Seventeen, eighteen, maybe even nineteen. A long life for a pet.
Where earlier in the day she jumped on my chest, eight and a half hours later she's under the bed and obviously fading. Not bouncing back like she always did before.
At the hospital I asked for anesthesia, didn't want her getting poked having lost so much weight. The doctor agreed and put a little gas mask on her and she was peacefully under the same anesthesia they give humans I was told. I don't know...just was satisfied that she was out of it for the final moment.
Told the doctor how we lost Duffy July 6, 2005 when their facility was across the street. Duffy had a heart attack 6 days after Jayden arrived. Duffy had a heart condition (and heart transplants for cats .... not advised.) Jayden was bossy when she moved into Garfield Ave, and that does change the kitty ecosystem. Jayden was a little terrorist when we adopted her from Georgia.
There was a special on CNN's Anderson Cooper that pets of the troops were being slaughtered at the kill shelter. So we adopted two pets from Georgia and when we got them on July 1 it was a good thing. The next day thirty-three of their comrades were gassed to death. Animal Control was beside themselves, horrified that the higher-ups killed the pets before animal control started their work day. So evil.
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Jayden and Sila got out of Dodge in the nick of time.
Jayden to the right at her uncle Rick's house.
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So before Jayden departed around 1:41 am this morning, I told the doctor about Duffy in 2005 and Tiger August 16, 2010. My partner and I brought Tiger up to the same hospital, now moved across the street from where Duffy had passed away. We had to let Tiger go to his final rest as his back legs gave out. Tiger had never gotten over the loss of Duffy, the two had bonded in an amazing way. Another kitty I adopted in 2007 tried hopelessly to bond with Tiger, but Tiger was mourning Duffy for 5 years. You could feel it.
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My partner and I got in the car and drove away from the vet's ...and I told the story to the doctor tonight just before Jayden went to sleep. We took the right and as we're driving one bunny rabbit from the right side of the street, where Tiger passed away, was running to the other side of the street to another bunny at the building where Duffy passed away.
Jeff and I were convinced it was the spirits of Duffy and Tiger meeting again.
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This morning as I'm leaving the hospital around 2 am, turning on the same road, a bunny - a single bunny this time...dashes across the street the next building up from where the event nine years ago happened with the two bunnies.
This was a sign from Jayden. What are the odds, one month shy of 9 years later - July 16, 2019 vs August 16, 2010, that a single bunny would show up after Jayden's passing. Tiger knew Jayden for five years and a month. And now there's one bunny running in front of my car across the street. Now I am determined to get a picture of the bunny. This is beyond coincidence. No bunnies while we were driving to the hospital, no bunnies anywhere to be seen except AFTER the passing of another kitty cat.
The bunny scampered into a bush. Then I saw it run out and into the side of the company. With iPhone camera in hand I kept walking - nowhere to be found. Got back in my car...and thelittle bunny is scampering one building up...got the photo.
Got out of the car. Said "I love you, Jayden. I love you, Jayden." It was a message from my kitty.
