22/05/2026
We suffered a really hard loss yesterday. Could yall say a prayer for our family?
One of our family’s most treasured cats, Jaklin, very unexpectedly crossed the rainbow bridge yesterday, in my arms. I held her curled up in my arms sobbing on the floor until she was stiff. It was a freak thing, and within moments, she was gone before I could even call anyone. I’m absolutely traumatized.
Felis Alba Jaklin, imported as one of my chosen foundation girls from Russia in 2019- the matriarch of my cattery, lovingly known as JackJack, left us with 3 young kittens that we will be keeping in our family.
They are just on the cusp of old enough that they will be okay without milk, and I’m thankful that Tinkerbell willingly adopted them, as I like to leave them with their mothers for longer. She was one of my originals, and by far the most amazing mother of all of my mothers. She even mothered me and the children, and would groom us and snuggle us every chance she got. She also flopped on the beds and couches like a teenage boy when she laid down. I’d never seen anything like it. She liked to be smooshed in between my husband and I to go to sleep at night. She also liked to sleep on my head, wrapped around my face like I was one of her babies.
She was in headed to retirement from my breeding program, but I realized that we didn’t have any of her babies in my lines like had planned to, so our family unanimously decided to breed her one more time- with the plans of keeping all of her babies, just because we loved her so much!!
My husband, my children, and I are absolutely devastated and I know the kids will be too. I’m thankful that the Lord allowed me to hold her in her final moments.
We had a small funeral for her last night, picked a great spot under the large shade tree in our front yard, and our 3 children wanted to be part of the process. They picked yard flowers to lay with her, laid her cat toy with her, and we all sat together and cried until well after dark.
Goodbyes are never easy, especially ones like these. She was our baby. 😭😭