mykeowns: Yesterday was one of the hardest days of my life.Suddenly and unexpectedly Link passed awa

mykeowns:

Yesterday was one of the hardest days of my life.

Suddenly and unexpectedly Link passed away and I’m still struggling to process it properly.

Link, or Tigger as he known at the time, came into our lives just as unexpectedly as he left it, randomly stumbling upon him in the window of an adoption bin in PetSmart back on May 10th of 2014
Never planned on getting a second cat after Zelda (Oh how wrong I was) but he was just too damn cute as he was derping around pulling the stuffing out of his bed. With a little nudging from two lovely employees, while they cleaned up the mess he was making I got to hold him and he let out the most heart melting purr ever and that was the moment I knew he was gonna come home. It wasn’t easy though, because the shelter was very difficult and uncooperative at first, but with a little perseverance five days later he came home.
Upon communicating with the shelter, I found out he didn’t have the nicest backstory; poor little Linky and his siblings were cruelly abandoned on the side of the road in a box, during a storm, where most of his siblings didn’t survive. Luckily for me, and him, he was strong and made it to that shelter, and then to me.
He spent the next 8 years living his best life with all of his roommates; eating all the treats, enjoying homegrown catnip, chewing my fingers, and licking my face every day, and taking the best yawn pictures ever. Thankfully I have all these years of pictures and the memories attached to them. 

I’m gonna miss my little buddy.