RIP sweet Samantha 6/26/88-8/28/08

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

No. Please no. Not our sweet Samantha too.

I could tell by her last pictures she was getting on in years - I recognized the "old" look that Tubby got in his last year - but I really thought she had many more years in her......

RIP sweetie. You are now with Tubby, and I can see you both lounging in your favorite spot - a bright dash of warm sunshine. May that bright light remain to ease your meowmy's pain.

Zoe, I now know why we've been seeing so many butterflies in the last few days. Terry started calling them Tubby since they are a different kind of butterfly than Peanut, and I now know they are Tubby, Samantha, Tucker and all the other recent arrivals at RB, coming to let me know I should check in here to learn this sad news. Next time you see a Monarch, think of Samantha and know that she is free of the constraints of this world, and she is waiting happily for you at RB. {{{{hugs}}}

[kimlovescats]

My dear sweet, Samantha! I am heartbroken to hear of your passing and that I missed your thread and no one even told me about it. I love you dearly and will forever miss you.

[Vermontcat]

Thanks everyone.
I still cry when I read these comments about her, I really miss her a lot.

Debbie, that is interesting about the butterflies, on Sunday morning when I was driving my daughter to her horseback riding lesson she said "Look mom, there's a Monarch butterfly!" It flew right by our windshield and I think it may have been Samantha letting us know that she had done her job in helping us find the two new cats the night before and that she was moving on now and that we were going to be ok without her.

Kim, I will PM you.