A Tribute to Our Beloved Family Cat
The Sunny Memorial Tribute
Celebrating our Family Kitty Cat — Never Forgotten
Sunny's Translation Day & Birthday
Today we celebrate our dearly departed Sunny, whose translation day is September 5, 2009 — one day after his birthday on September 4. There is not a day that goes by that I do not remember my true loving cat and friend Sunny. He was the light and love of my life in the animal kingdom. I was his guardian and he was my family. I respected him that way and adored him for his innocence.
I listened and spoke to Sunny and tried to be a loving parental guide to him throughout his life. He would speak to me with a deep gaze into my eyes with his bright golden eyes. He was awake, aware and full of life and truly knew he was loved by me at home. He was shy and scared of new people and perhaps this was due to some previous trauma he experienced in his prior home. We spent much of our time together trying to help him overcome his shyness.
I Shared 13 Glorious Years with Sunny
I spoke to Anastasia, my animal communicator friend, for guidance at times and also just observed Sunny like a wild animal and respected him that way. I might be doing something somewhere but his gaze would wake me up to his presence and his communications for me. Somehow I grew more able to understand and feel the emotions of all animals in the world by knowing and learning to communicate with Sunny.
I gained so much because now I feel empathy for all life and all animals everywhere. I thank Sunny for this gift among others he shared with me — and being needed by Sunny and needing him in kind was an experience of true Love. All animal guardians know this who truly love and let animals speak and teach us as they can do if we allow them to and respect them.
It was Sunny who inspired me to care for all animals and to become an animal advocate. He supported all the campaigns I worked on for animals — be it foie gras to help the Ducks and Geese, or wild Horses, or Chimpanzees. I always felt his presence there to encourage me on.
One of my most wonderful memories is when I would pick Sunny up at 4 am to feed him and he would purr and put his mouth in my ear to show he cared. That was a most wonderful loving expression of love he often shared. He really appreciated his home life with us and would chase me around the room to have fun with me. He loved bird watching from the windows and seemed to smile when my husband Jonathan fed the birds outside our window. Sunny had his perches and hiding places all over the house and we enjoyed looking and finding him contently waiting for our arrival.
I will never forget.
About Sunny — Our Persian Cat
Persian Cat
We adopted Sunny at the Pet Store the day after Thanksgiving in 1999. He was 8½ years old when we first wrote this tribute.
Sunny was an extremely shy cat to new people, however with us it was an ongoing show as he loved to play. We would play hide and seek around corners in the house — he would look me in the eye and I would go back and forth, and if I started running he would chase me around and around the house, leaping over stools and things to pursue me. He also would jump up when I motioned for him to do so, aiming to interact with me.
Sunny had many funny habits. One was when he dug in his litter box — for a very long time he would dig and dig. We called it his "digging to China." Another funny Sunny habit was when he woke me to feed him right at 5 am on the clock. Every time he was hungry he meowed to me to wake me up.
My Happy Birthday Poem for Sunny
Happy Birthday Sunny... You are nine years old on September 4, 2007. Sunny, a dear being in our lives — a furry cat and it has been said a "handsome" cat...
He loves to play and loves to eat,
He loves to jump and is so sweet...
Sunny is our love.
Sunny brightens our life,
Sunny brings us love and takes away any strife...
He is our little one.
His eyes so bright,
He loves to play with all his might...
May the blessings be!
Please send Sunny Love... with aloha spirit, Barbara
In Loving Memory of Sunny
"Being needed by Sunny and needing him in kind was an experience of true Love."
September 4, 1998 – September 5, 2009