PRINCESS's STORY

"The Princess Diaries" began about fourteen years ago as emails to cat loving friends. They were stories about Princess's diary, a tabby cat who was born in 1989 when I rescued her. She was about four months old. She was in tune with everything I did or even think, she always amazed me so much, I just had to write about her. After nineteen years with me, she went to the Rainbow Bridge in August of 2008.

The house felt painfully empty after her passing. But I vowed never to replace her. In my heart, she was irreplaceable.
And then I started to see her in my dreams. Suddenly, I remembered one morning that I had seen her back in her healthy form and I was told "she is ready now". I was not sure what that really meant.

Just a couple of days later, I was led to a pet psychic by other people at an Expo event. It was an unplanned, spontaneous occurrence, I had not thought about visiting a pet psychic and did not even have a picture of her that they could use.
Princess' spirit came through the pet psychic who repeated those same words I had heard in the dream: "She is ready" .... to be born again.

How would I find her? How? She said it would be "like a Petsmart, one of those places".

I took it in stride. I still did not want to replace her with any other cat. One day, about 2 months later, I found myself suddenly making a turn off the main road into a Petco I never go to, away from my area. I felt compelled to go in even though I had no other cats to care for. I spotted an adoption fair poster in there... and I heard clearly in my heart and mind the thought that 'you've got to follow up on this - don't let it go'. I did.

I returned for the adoption fair and as I entered, I began to feel like I was in a trance.. I kept looking in cages but could not "feel it". Finally, I came to the end of the cage line and I stood motionless, staring at this tiny tabby baby sleeping on top of a larger orange fluffy kitten. She was less than 2 months old. As I stood there, contemplating my feelings, the orange kitten stood up and came to the front of the cage, reaching out to me with his paw... He let out a meow at me as he saw me take a few steps away, mulling this sight over in my mind. I turned to see this kitten holding out his paw at me, literally meowing for me to come back...

When Princess II came home with Gabriel, she was barely 2 months old. And she knew. She knew all the old tricks and phrases - and she wanted to show me exactly what she knew.
She was born in the same type of body, a tabby.

I could not tell while she was a tiny baby but she grew to have the same type of bow-legged look to her hind legs. She also carried the same fear. Princess was fearful of the scrunchy sound of plastic or paper bags all throughout her life with me, it may have been something that had happened to her in her first 4 months of life before I rescued her. She also had a herniated belly when I found her in 1989. Now this new kitten, as she grew, had a slight protruding feel on the same spot of her belly, although vets did not detect anything 'wrong' with it.

To this day, the new Princess is still fearful of scrunchy bag sounds while no other cat in the household is.
"It's time for beddie bye now", I said when she returned to the house as a two-month old - and on cue, she climbed up the stairs immediately and looked down at me from upstairs for my reaction. I was just floored ...this little kitten responded to a phrase she never heard of before. "Wanna get some 'nummy-num'?" - Yes! She ran to the bowls. This was her first time as a new kitten in the house.

It was a miracle - and we are still living it. It has been now been over 8 years later now since her new incarnation.

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Saturday, March 14, 2009

A Trip to the Groomer

Today I took Gabriel to the nearby groomer for the first time. They're only a couple blocks away from our house so.. he didn't have to go through a wrangling car ride. But as I was putting him in his carrier, Princess was looking on kinda worried and I had to reassure them both that this was "okay". Her little face is so expressive, you can see every single change of mood and emotion as it passes through her eyes. So we got to the groomer's and we lucked out, he was the only "cat groomer" who does this for years. A true expert.

Gabriel got real upset for about a minute as I sat the carrier down at the reception area, he sounded very alarmed actually. As I tried to calm him down the groomer came over with his reinforcements, harness, protective gloves, neck protector, the works. The carrier top opened and Gabriel meowed something at him. The groomer then got him by the scruff which actually upset me more than anybody else. "Are you SURE this is okay? I never ... " He had to now pacify ME, as I got worried he might hurt him, as I looked at Googie's eyes getting all dilated. I mean suddenly, he had shut up.. real fast. The groomer assured me that it was all good.

Within a few minutes he was done, returning Googie in good order; I never heard a peep the whole time during the nail clipping. So we got back with Googie all quiet now during the short card ride back home. As he settled back in one of his favorite spots, I suddenly noticed that he was now gazing at me. I looked back at him, his eyes wide and focused right on mine - he did not look away. We could have sat there, staring at each other for who knows how long. It was as if he was seeing something new. Did he understand this to be a "rescue" of some sort from the 'strange cat groomer'? Or did he get that he was being pampered?

Whatever it was, it must have been good. Cats don't just stare right at you without a good reason. :)
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