Max

Rest in peace my darling boy 30th April 2022

Things I loved about you:
How sometimes you couldn't get a full meow out and instead a tiny squeak would happen instead
Those weird nights where you decided you absolutely needed to stand up and paw at my mirror for apparently no reason
When you wanted attention and would jump up on my desk and lie down in front of my monitor
If I stroked you unexpectedly and you let out a tiny little mrow
Your huge wide eyes and little white toofies
How you'd sometimes wake me up just to snuggle with me
The fact that you knew you weren't allowed to sleep in my clothes, yet did anyway
The way you'd wind around my legs to say hello, ask for attention or beg for food
How I could cradle you like a baby in my arms
Watching Sam groom you and how you'd gently, or sometimes not so gently, bap him away when you'd had enough
The very rare times I saw you groom Sam
When I could hear you snoring from across my room
Your absolute insatiable greed for any and all cat treats
The way you'd try to steal Sam's food unless I stopped you (though most of the time you shared nicely)
Your polite way of letting me know if you were getting annoyed with something I was doing by gently putting your teeth on my hand
How you'd come and tell me it was getting to bedtime and I needed to give you your nighttime treats
When Sam couldn't work out how to open my bedroom door you'd go and open it for him
The times you came back inside wearing slugs on your fur (I still don't know how you didn't notice or mind)
The way you'd drool on yourself while you were sleeping (It was gross, but still one of your quirks I loved about you)
How you just loved our company and would follow us around the garden and sit with us on the grass in the sun
Our little routine to get you into your bed at night, and how all I had to do was stroke you in a certain way to get you to lie down
The absolute trust you had in me
How you loved belly rubs and scritches, and were a little ticklish (though I tried to avoid tickling you)
That one time you ate an entire semi-moist stick in about half a second, it was horrifying, hilarious and fascinating
How you'd beg for food by simply sitting and staring at me with your huge eyes
When you lay in the sun you could sometimes see stripes in your fur and you looked a beautiful deep dark brown
The first time we let you out of the kitchen to explore the rest of the house and you ran down the hallway and smacked straight into the glass door (and then how Sam watched and did the exact same thing)
When you wanted to get into my room so you'd paw at the door until I opened it
How floppy you would get when you were asleep on my bed, and I couldn't pick you up because you were so floppy
When you would lie on one side and Sam would lie my other side and I'd be sandwiched between two cats
The way I'd pull my curtain back and find you hiding behind it, or when you'd poke your little head around the curtain to look at me
That one time Meg was over for tea and you chose the one quiet moment to go into your litter box and **** so loudly and forcefully and we were laughing so hard we couldn't tell my dad why we were laughing