My sweet Filou lost his last battle- memorial pictures #52/53

[catmandu]

I have placed this Cat Mas Card of Filou and Tigris into My Awesome Angels Army Album on Photo Bucket where they so richly belong.
Filou and Tigris are in My Found Cats and Porch Cats Angels Photo Album, and they will always have an invitation to join us anytime at all.
On Catada Day My Friend Christine and I may splurge and go to King.s Buffet on Catada Day, and we pray that Filou and Tigris will be there foor the Lobster, Crab Legs and all the Special Dishes.There's also a great cheesecake bar to die for and ice cream too!
They will of course recieve the first dish on their
One Fine Day

[Vio&Juni]

My heart is so heavy!

Barbara and Siegmar, I know that this is unbearable for you, poor little Filou is not hurting anymore. As Russian Blue said their pain is over and ours only starts when they leave us.

Juni saw me crying and she came to mourn with me

I will call tomorrow.

[emily_the_spoiled]

When I first saw this posting yesterday I could not bear to respond. You Filou had given me hope that when Emily was diagnosed with renal failure she could live as long and as fully as he did (unfortunately she did not ).

I can only imagine what you are going through right now, but he is now at the RB, happy and healthy once again, just waiting for the time when he will see you once more.

[Lilith Cherry]

Goodbye Filou, you will be sorely missed!

[Vermontcat]

Barbara, I'm so sorry to hear that your sweet Filou has gone to the Rainbow Bridge.
I know you fought long and hard to give him a long wonderful life with you and Siegmar.
I know how much it hurts to lose a beloved heart kitty.
I'm sure that Filou is with his big brother Tigris again at the Rainbow Bridge.
Sending hugs your way.

[Killearn Kitties]

Barbara, I am so very sorry that Filou's time had come. You did an absolutely amazing job in keeping him as happy and as healthy as possible for all those years. Not that that makes it any easier to bear.
Sending many hugs to you and Siegmar.

[Barbara]

It’s difficult to write about Filou.
We met him with his human mom who is a pet photographer who has published quite some books about cats and his kitty mom. He was an only child, 8 weeks old, and started our acquaintance by chewing on our fingers and sitting on our back. He lost the first habit and followed the latter one until the day of his passing.
When Filou came to live with us he was 16 weeks old. His 13 weeks old adopted brother Tigris was already there- just for one day. While Tigris had spent the first afternoon in the transport box, just not wanting to get out, Filou jumped out of his box and within five minutes had been to every corner of the house and back again.
Filou and Tigris became friends (and were called “the Mongole hordes” or “the stampede”) and while, after the coming of age, their relation was not without tension they stayed friends until Tigris’ left much too early:


Filou was a prince- he just couldn’t move without grace. All his pictures show him so quiet but that is just because I couldn’t take pictures when he moved, fast as lightning.
Talk about light…ning: He loved the sun:





He loved his balcony garden and the flowers:





Being a prince, he made sure his subjects loved him- and how could they not:



He groomed his dad:


and followed us everywhere, especially in the kitchen where he ate Thai curry chicken, salmon, corn, olives, cooked potatoes, coconut milk, corn, avocados and milk chocolate if he could get it. I have never seen a kitty with such an appetite.