Percy

[louiselux]

Percy died yesterday. He was a cat, the pet of a dear friend. We shared a house together for five years so we came to see Percy as a part of our extended family, and the natural monarch of the house and grounds, or indeed anywhere that he happened to be. He was an enormous creature: ginger, idiosyncratic, prone to taking your arm off if you disturbed him while he was concentrating on basking in the sun, but affectionate when it suited him, usually when he wanted you for a cushion. He liked to eat the brains of small creatures, and once followed us to the local pub and sat watching us through the window. 

He got fed a lot by various neighbours who used to mistake him for a pregnant female, and due to his outsize catty frame ( XXXL, at least - he weighed 2 and a half stone and had a 24 inch girth at his widest part, but he was very tall too and could headbutt doors open with little effort), sometimes got stuck in the cat flap. He enjoyed making nests in piles of laundry, and would sit on the doorstep to welcome people home from work at 5 o'clock. He had advanced powers of observation and was fabled to look left, then right, then left again before crossing the road. 

He was a drooling, smelly ginger rug of a cat and I loved him very much. 

Comments

[noblerot.livejournal.com]

He was a drooling, smelly ginger rug of a cat and I loved him very much.

This is the best kind of cat. Somewhere Percy is purring over a plate of brains and basking in the sun, I'm sure.

{{{Percy}}}

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Somewhere Percy is purring over a plate of brains and basking in the sun, I'm sure

That's how I'll always think of him:-)

[daegaer.livejournal.com]

:-(

I'm so sorry for you and the rest of Percy's humans. He sounds like he was a wonderful giant cat.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Thanks - he will be sorely missed, even if he did like to hide on the stairs and gently sink his enormous yellowed fangs into innocent ankles as they passed by.

[daegaer.livejournal.com]

Ouch. Yes, I know the type - one of my mother's beasts lies in wait at the top of the stairs so she can claw violently at my scalp through the bannisters. It must mean something appropriate in cat (possibly "I despise your ankles/scalp").

[snapesgirl34.livejournal.com]

;~; Poor Percy

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Thanks. He was one of a kind!

[mandragora1.livejournal.com]

He sounds like a wonderful cat who will be much missed. Very much missed.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Thanks - he will be. He was brilliant - a real character.

[crotalus-atrox.livejournal.com]

:( My sympathies.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

We've decided he's gone to catty Valhalla, to chew the brains of small animals for all eternity.

Thanks.

[ellen-fremedon.livejournal.com]

I've known some cats very like Percy. He sounds like a sweetheart.

My condolences.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

In lots of ways he was a sweetheart, unless you happened to cross his path not bearing food or offering a compfy warm lap to sprawl in:)

Thank you.

[lovelyzelda.livejournal.com]

Sorry about Percy--he sounds like he was a great cat.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Thank you. He was a catty superstar:)

[miraminx.livejournal.com]

What a great cat. There's just something about those big ginger males, and Percy sounds especially entertaining. I'm sorry for your loss.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I think if I ever got a cat myself then I'd get a ginger tom - they're a sort of uber-cat. Percy provided us with years of catty entertainment:-)

[rochefort.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry about your cat. He sounded very lovable.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Thank you. He was lovable, in a biting, drooling, demanding sort of way:)

[vivien]

Oh, I'm so sorry. I have had a couple of RL friends who've lost kitties lately, and we miss them so. I know how sad it is. *goes to hug my own kitties before going to work*

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Poor Percy - he will be missed.