Tyler Tuesday: Seventeen

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This Thursday, June 9th, would have been Tyler's seventeenth birthday.

Seventeen.

Is that his actual birthday?  Not really.  I adopted him, as you know, on December 9th, 2000.  I was told he was a year and a half at the time, so, being the math genius that I am, I made his birthday, by default, June 9th, 1999 since they did not know his actual birthday.

Could he have been older?  Possibly.

Didn't matter to me, he had a birthday and that was that.

This Thursday also marks the second year that I am celebrating Tyler's birthday without him.  I'm sure Tyler is having the party of his life at the Rainbow Bridge, with plenty of his favorite food, toys, nip, and Tiger to keep him company.

Tyler was always the center of attention, he wouldn't want it any other way.

Please join me this Thursday in honoring the greatest cat that ever lived.

Tyler.

Happy birthday old man.  It's just not the same without you.  Rarely a second goes by where I don't think about you.  Rarely a second goes by when I don't see a "phantom Tyler" zip past me.

I miss you, more than you could know.  I'd like to think that you do know, since I am certain you are very much watching over us, and enjoying how effortlessly Sophie has assumed your old role as boss.

You saved my life, and I love you for it.  See you at the bridge one day.

Here's the old man sleeping away his fifteenth birthday in 2014:


Here's a RARE shot of Tyler on my lap around his 11th birthday in 2010:



Comments

  1. MarcJune 7, 2016 at 1:28 PM

    Sorry for your loss. The pain never leaves, sometimes makes you wanna meet up with your loved ones again at the Bridge. It's painfull to have to wait a bit longer and remember

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