Good-Bye Cali

This has been a really hard year for our family and our pets! When Maddi was 3 she started asking for a cat. I grew up always having a cat and a dog. We had a dog so it was natural for me to get a cat. One summer afternoon I took her to pick out a kitten. She was so excited! She narrowed it down to a pretty white kitten and a calico kitten. Since one of my favorite cats growing up was my calico cat I encouraged her to pick the calico. When we left I asked her what she was going to name her kitten. She looked at me kind of strange and said "Calico Mom" What else would a three year old name a calico cat? So her name became Calico which we shortened to Cali. That was 13 years ago. Andy was a baby, Josh was 2 and Maddi was 3. When Andy was 2 Cali had kittens. That was really fun for the kids. One day Andy came up stairs holding his head crying, when I asked him what was wrong he said Cali scratched him. I asked him why, he said "I don't know I only threw the black kitten." Cali has out lived 3 of our dogs. We have LOVED her every day for 13 years. A couple weeks ago we noticed that our she was not acting right. The kids thought she had been in a fight, but I didn't think she had been outside. As we watched her we realized that she couldn't see and she wasn't eating. We called our great neighbor and Vet on Saturday and he came by to check on her. He thought maybe she had been in a fight and her eye was infected. He took her into his office to get her hydrated and give her some medication to feel better. When he went in to clean out her eye and ear he realized that she had not been in a fight but had a tumor that was pushing on her eye. He said she is completely blind and in a lot of pain. Last night we had to make the hard decision to have her put to sleep. So today we are saying good bye to our Beautiful Kitty. It's been another hard, sad day for our family. They say things come in 3's. This is our 3rd pet to die this year. That means we are done right?