Goodbye Bliss

Bliss passed away today. She had a tumor on her spleen that developed quickly. It spread to her pancreas and had even attached to her side. She has been in and out of the vet's office since the day after Thanksgiving. She had one last day at home with us before the vet tried to see if he could help her one last time this morning.

We got Bliss as a kitten a few months after we were married. She was a very energetic kitten. Some of her habits were puppy-like. At our apartment in Rome we could throw a ball up the stairs and she would chase after it and run down the stairs with it in her mouth to return it to us. We named Bliss after a wonderful character in The Floatplane Notebooks.

When Aden was only a few weeks old Bliss ran away. She was an inside cat and never had any interest in going outside. We think she didn't like the way things in the house were changing and thought she might try things out on her own. She came back home the next day. We still don't know how she got out.

Amy is pregnant now and Bliss had been very clingy with Amy the entire time. We figured she knew what was happening again and wanted to get her time alone with Amy while she could. She curled up on the couch with Amy every night and would even follow her to the bathroom. It turns out that maybe she was acting that way because of the tumor. It was probably a little of both.

We will miss her very much.