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He weighed nineteen and a half lbs.; was probably born in 1988; was an orange tabby who was pure of heart, pure of soul, and empty of brain. He was afriend to all that live or ever did or might have. Galahad fell instantly and totally in love with anyone who looked at him. His purr level = 102 Db, and he started purring if anybody looked at him or touched him.
Finally the day came when the collar came off and the pin came out. We let him out. He stopped to eat a few blades of grass, rolled around on the concrete for a few minutes and then walked to the street. Wandering out to the double yellow lines in the middle, he lay down across them for a nice, relaxing nap. That was the last time he was ever allowed out.
As you can see from this
picture,
Galahad was a "box kitty" and woul attempt to fit his considerable body
into any box that was left lying on the floor. Too, Galahad usually
picked the smallest basket to curl up in. He
had his own "blankie" on the sofa; if it was wadded up into a lump, he
still
tried to put his entire body atop it, ignoring all the available space
on the sofa itself. He had also "adopted" the two pillows
(beautiful
handmade pillows featuring cats on both sides), and when he wasn'tt
sleeping
on his blankie, he was curled up on them. As he got older, he got
painful arthritis due to his early injury. Eventually we had to
put a step stool at the end of the sofa so he could climb up and
down. When he got too stiff for that, his bed was in front of the
kitchen door, so he could observe people and the other cats coming and
going.
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One
of Galahad's most unusual tricks was perching with his hind feet up on
the
edge of the litterbox when he uses it. The first time I saw him do it,
I nearly fell over from laughing! 
Galahad
once lost an argument to a truck. Shattered his left hind leg. He
dragged
himself home and he was rushed to the vet who did surgery -
including bone
grafts and a pin. For the recovery time of six months, Galahad had to
wear
an Elizabethan collar and stay in a closet (a very large closet) to
keep
him from the other cats. 
Other
Galahad-isms include the time he walked into the bedroom to look
around.
He sat down and eyeballed the room for about 5 minutes. Then he stood
up
to go back out the door - and jumped, startled, 3 inches off the floor
when he realized he would walk into Su-Su. Su-Su had been sitting next
to him the whole time, and he hadn't noticed her! 
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In 2003, Galahad had reached the end of a long, productive life. With the help of the vet, he crossed the Rainbow Bridge. |
