Jul
30
Long Live the memory of Wheezie “Bean” the family Cat. Wheezie was born in 1987. Becky, my wife got Wheezie when she was a kitten. Wheezie got her name because she couldn’t meow like a normal cat it was more of a wheeze hence Wheezie. I’ve been told that when Wheezie was a kitten she was so small that she could fit in the palm of Becky’s hand. I came into the picture much later, something like ‘93 or so. When I met Becky my wife I was told that I go before the cats go, I had to learn my place quickly. I wasn’t much of a cat person and at the time Becky had 2 cats Tiffany and Wheezie. Tiffany was a pure white Persian with soft long hair and a shy personality. Wheezie was the younger of the 2 and had the energy of a kitten. Wheezie fit right in at Halloween being a long hair domestic black cat with bright yellow eyes. No matter what you wore in our house you always had cat hair on you. That’s the way it is when you have a white and a black cat. Tiffany passed away in ‘98 due to cancer. Wheezie had a hard time with Tiffany gone and we felt guilty the way we treated the situation, in hind sight we could have handled it better. We brought in 2 young cats to help keep Wheezie company and again in hind sight that was probably a mistake. We didn’t give her any time to get over Tiffany’s passing. Wheezie became a loaner and with the other 2 cats being active I’m ashamed to say we didn’t give Wheezie the attention she deserved. Then Morgan arrived and the cats or “girls” as we called them since they were all female took a backseat to everything. Wheezie made Morgan’s room her room since she was the only cat that could squeeze through the baby gate at the top of the stairs. These past few months Morgan has been showing more and more interest in Wheezie and I dread telling her that Wheezie is gone. Wheezie was a good cat that loved the outdoors, catnip and Tuna fish. She will be missed in the Creighton Household. I will miss her.
Columbia, SC