Why do people say: "It's bad luck if a black cat crosses your path."??
Well our black cat was a lucky cat and I always thought different about him because he crossed my path every day and I didn't receive any bad luck...well not much but if I did get some bad luck I didn't blame it on my cat.

Smokey was our hunter cat. He caught all kinds of smaller animals, some almost as big as himself. One time he caught a rabbit and dragged it up the hill to lay it on the front porch for us....lol...Why do cats do that? Do they want us to eat it?
But that is what cats do....they have the natural instinct to hunt and this black cat looked just like a black panther when he would sneak up to his prey.

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Smokey did not like going anywhere in his carrier. When we took him to the vet, he would do the spread eagle and get all his claws out to hang up on the door of the carrier and even paralyzing him on the neck didn't work. He somehow would not relax. So we always dreaded taking him to the vet.

Another thing about Smokey was that he would lay around on the couch
in human-like positions and just sleep like that.

One of my favorite pictures was Smokey and a pumpkin on Halloween. He was sitting in a chair with a blanket that had pretty fall colors and when I set a plastic pumpkin beside him and said "smile" he actually did a spooky-looking halloween face and looked kinda mean. He was probably just aggravated because I interrupted his cleaning of his fur.

When Smokey got sick and we knew he was getting ready to die, it was on a weekend and the vet was closed and we were not able to take him to have him put down. It was like he knew it was the weekend and waited til then because he hated getting into the carrier. He knew he would be too weak to fight and he wanted to die at home. He was so cold. The kids (grown kids) and grandkids came to say their good-byes. We covered him up just like a human because he was so cold. Then he passed peacefully. It was different then how the other cats went. He wanted to die at home. I'm so sad right now thinking back that I cannot see through my tears to type....so I will end now. He brought us all such joy.

Smokey passed over the rainbow bridge just after his 20th birthday.

We miss you Smokey!!

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