15 years ago, I was looking for a seal point kitten and found one on petfinder.com named Sagwa. I headed down to Detroit Animal Control to meet her, but when I got there they told me they had no kittens. I walked around anyway, and in a stack of crates with dogs on top and below her, was a terrified little seal point kitten in an over crowded cage of other cats and kittens. I quickly adopted her, and we headed to the vet. When we got there, she was a brown kitten with dark brown points - or so I thought. After a much needed flea bath, they handed back over an ivory kitten with dark brown points - her fur had been brown from all of the flea dirt. She had a broken tail and ear mites, but we fixed her up and brought her home. A few weeks after adopting her, a news story ran on the DAC feeding live kittens to snakes, along with other mistreatment of their animals. It was sad, but not surprising based on the experience I had there.
I renamed the kitten Sophie, and she lived with me at my mom's, in Ann Arbor when I was living there for grad school, and at our houses on Glengarry, Westwood and finally Henley. Soph wasn't the easiest cat, as her litter box usage was spotty at best, but she was an amazing cuddler and always cheered me up when I was sad. A few months ago, Sophie started showing signs of kidney failure, and deteriorated pretty quickly. The past few days she was struggling to walk, and stopped eating, and I knew it was time to say goodbye. The girls spent some special time with Soph before school, and then I made the sad choice to take her to the vet one last time. We will all miss our Sophie cat (well, everyone except Jordan).
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| Sophie as a kitten |
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| Sophie and Sydney |
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| Sophie and Floyd hanging out just last week |
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