A Last Note About Our Beautiful Song

We were wrong. Or maybe we were just seeing things with our heart. Belle Canto had a way of doing that. Opening your heart up with her look of a tiger as she scratched at her post, or her purr, or when she licked your hands and face.

But in the end, she was too sick and weak to do any of those, and we knew it was time to let her go.

The final decline in her health happened all too sudden. For us. To her it must have seemed like an eternity. The vet told us that as far as it was known, the FIP probably wasn't causing her a significant level of pain. But watching her struggle across a room, because her heart had more ambition than the nerves controlling her back legs could fulfill, broke our heart. And she was such a dignified kitten, it must have horrified her.

So on a Friday afternoon before a "holiday" weekend, we said goodbye to the bundle of love that we were lucky enough to have as part of our lives. And unlucky enough to lose much, much too soon.

Belle Canto Maree - The World's Most Beautiful Kitten
August 7, 2007 to May 23, 2008
(picture taken 12/15/07)

For a few more pictures of Belle Canto click here.