Princess - The Cat Who Came Back: Memory Lane: Revisiting the Princess Diaries from Sept 2005

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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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Memory Lane: Revisiting the Princess Diaries from Sept 2005

September 15, 2005 – Birthday Month Series – Not An Ordinary Cat

There are subtle ways you can tell whether your cat is different from say, other cats you have encountered. It might be when you are watching her play. Princess doesn't just grab, bite, or attack the toy hanging on the string (a gift from our petsitter that was, looks just like a fishing pole actually). No, no: Princess actually bats it back to you as if she's playing badminton. We can go back and forth like this forever ... every time I tempt her with the string toy, she will raise her paw and bat it straight back like a racquet ...hmmm...

There was the time I told her we had a 'new' petsitter and Lisa came through the door. Princess knows the word 'petsitter' well, just like the word 'doctor' and if the latter is mentioned, she disappears fast! :) But this time the word "petsitter" was said, and Princess took one look at Lisa and turned her back on her. I mean, the cat didn't just run away at the site of a new face, or wander aimlessly about. No, no - she simply turned her back and stayed in that position in protest. She liked Julie best because every time Julie comes through the door Princess greets her with a deep purr!

Most touching of all though, are the times when Princess and I get into a tiff: I want to hold her close for a few minutes and she doesn't like that. So she starts making ugly noises about it ... until I will let her go; but then she turns around and rubs her face against my hand as if to reassure me she still loves me, in spite of the smothering. ("Smother" is another word she doesn't like.) Then she'll lay there and start cleaning herself as if I got her dirty. This happens every time, I swear to god...

What a Priss!

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