Rover the Survivor

My Rover died today.

He was about 5 months and 2 days old.

He had dark grey fur with a little bit of white on his chest...

it looked as he was wearing a grey tuxedo.

I ran over him by my car when I wanted to go into the porch.

As usual, he would wait for me in front of the gate whenever I came back from work.

But today...he waited...I thought he was at the side of the porch.

Unfortunately...he went under the car and that when I realised that

the car I drove was like on a bump

which was actually Rover's body :(

I saw him running painfully and fell down on the floor

His urine came out and his legs were moving very fast

He was breathing heavily and suddenly he was quiet

I cried so hard while squatting next to Rover

My kids were speechless when they saw I cried

I'm so sorry Rover....really really sorry

I didn't mean to hurt you.

thank you for being with us

You really brightened our days

You were one amazing kitten

You loved to play especially with the kids,

Aqeel and Adnin really enjoyed your company,

Aqeel said you loved to play with strings, long sticks and bouncing ball

You even played with his sling bag

whenever he was about to carry it to the car to school,

Chasing with each other was also fun.

Sometimes you annoyed us,

you were nudged all the time whenever you wanted to enter the house

Sometimes you irritated us by giving us your sneeze fits

While sneezing on my foot,

at the same time, you will press your wet nose on it...euwww

The things I loved about you were;

You would seek for attention by rubbing your head to our legs

or even standing on your two hind legs like a dog in order to nuzzle

You always accompanied me while drying the clothes

and you would try to pull the clothes or try to get in the basket

You would eat whatever food I gave you,

definitely not a picky eater

Now life is so quiet without you

and I feel that there is nothing to look forward to when I come home from work

because, you will not be in front of the gate waiting for me anymore

and you will not be asking for food from me anymore

and I will not be thinking of putting aside some of my food or the left over for you

or thinking of what to feed you when there's no more cat food

And now I realised that

nothing last forever

" Inna lillahi wa inna 'ilayhi raji'un "

To Allah we belong and to Him we shall return

Amin....

teeny tiny Rover

My Rover when he was about a month old