WORDLESS WEDNESDAY - ARTHUR, RICK'S CAT

Waiting to tease dogs !

 Sharing breakfast (Fortunately Daddy didn't see it)

Making bed, lifting Arthur from one side to the other (he kept sleeping)

 

Arthur's umbrella

He loved sitting in the car and driving around 

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Yesterday,  3 years ago, Rick's beloved cat, settled down for a nap on the doormat in the kitchen and fell asleep forever. When I called the vet, she only could state that he died in his sleep after nearly 20 years of a very adventurous life ! He was such a special cat that it is impossible to forget him, you could rather write a book about his adventures.

Rick's childhood dream was owning a white cat. So getting his dream come true, we went to an animal rescue center and while asking for white cats, somebody showed up with a carton and sitting in there was a completely white kitten, little Arthur. And so Arthur took possession of our house !

We quickly noticed that Arthur was a very intelligent, funny, but also a little clumsy cat (he knocked over all kind of things. . He also had nerves of steel. When he slept on a bed and I wanted to change the sheets, I had to lift him up, put him at the end of the bed, stretched the sheet and put him back. When he slept on a door mat everybody had  to climb over him. He wouldn't move. 

When he slept on a table and you want to dress the table. He pretends to sleep so deeply that even if you push or want to chase him from the table he stays put, impossible to move him. Therefore you have to wait or put the plates and cutlery around him, which doesn't disturb him at all. Of course you shouldn't tell your guests that Arthur squatted the table while you were dressing it. 

He also was not afraid of dogs at all ! He just sat on the little wall besides our house and waited until a dog owner came with his dog. Then he would start to groom himself from top to bottom, while watching the jumping and barking dog who got crazy and his owner had all difficulties of the world to pull his dog away and calm him down. Arthur has his most innocent face while looking after the excited dog and the owner who "surfed" behind.

He was well known in the whole neighborhood and probably knew all beds in the houses too. Once a lady asked me if I was the "mum" of the white cat and I said yes ! Awww ! she said he is so cute and friendly he sleeps often in my bed so that I don't have to make it ! 

Unfortunately he also climbed in all cars with open doors, because he liked driving in a car. We always had to tell the people to check their cars if Arthur was not sleeping on the back seats !

When it rained he took the neighbor's dog a Bernese mountain dog as umbrella, and walked under his belly not to get wet. 

As I said, Arthur was very special he could have performed in a circus !

 

 

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