Me and Yes. August, 2004

Vaya Con Dios, Old Friend. Daddy.

I will never forget you as long as I live.

Yes just showed up out of the blue one day - a black kitten probably about six months old. I saw him lying in the grass in the back yard watching me. I got a can of food and put it out for him and he finally came and ate.

We have a bench and that is where I would feed him. Yes would eat then go back into the woods. Well came a day I said no more, if you want food come and get it on the patio. He finally came and ate. From there he let me touch him. Then he became a lap kitty.

Yes ran a tight ship, he allowed no other cats in the yard or near our house. We had a little kitty and he would chase her if he saw her and attack. In the winter I would wrap up in an electric blanket and set with Yes in the garage, as if he came in the house he would attack Luvy.

I was often asked how we named him Yes. Yes would cry when I fed him or called him, as if saying "Hurry up with my food, daddy" and I would always say "Yes, I hear you". So he started answering to the name of Yes. He would always be outside waiting for me, no matter how bad the weather.

Yes loved to play with a roll of paper towels, he would bite and tear them to pieces. Sometimes he would just jump up and bite the fire out of me and then run and hide. I never could get him to stop. He bit me on a Sunday on the back of my right hand. After a week in Hospital and losing use of my hand I came home. Yes had attacked Rainy Boy and had Luvy so traumatized that she would lose control of her bladder at the very sight of him. I knew it was a matter of time before he killed Rainy or Luvy or both. So with a very heavy heart I made the hardest decision I have ever made. I had Yes put to sleep on 18 November, 2005. I still cry for him and guess I always will. I loved him like a son. I kept his brush, his toys and some hair of his to put with his ashes. I am often asked if I had him put to sleep because he had bit me, to which I reply "I loved him very much and would NEVER do that to him because he bit me."

Yes, good bye old friend. And may God and you forgive.

Daddy

In Loving Memory of Yes

Copyright © Michael Lane
May 7, 2006