{"id":333,"date":"2020-10-29T18:43:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T18:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebird.me\/?p=333"},"modified":"2024-04-16T14:55:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T13:55:13","slug":"goodbye-beige-our-handsome-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/?p=333","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Beige, our handsome boy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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We had to say goodbye to our beautiful boy at 09:20 on the morning of 19th<\/sup> October 2020. We are devastated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Early life<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Beige had a tough first six or so years. He was born on a farm in August 2003, but then kept with five other cats on the stairs of a terraced house. Beige (and others) was rescued by a wonderful lady who gave him a lovely life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When his rescuer, a friend of a good friend, had to go into sheltered accommodation, Beige was temporarily fostered by our friend, then came to us, a really happy day, 29th March 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was 14 years old when he came to live with us, the most laid back yet authoritative cat we’ve ever lived in with!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My drinking companion<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Whenever I was boozing of a Friday or Saturday night, I’d warn Beige we were in for a late one. We would stay together, him on my lap, until the early hours, or all night if I fell asleep. Every time I went outside to the loo, Beige would come for a look around or to strop his claws on a pebbledash wall! Irrespective of the weather. He was very interested in everything. Our last beer drinking session was a month ago, and his absence spoiled an intended evening last week, so I gave up on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RIP<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Beige became increasingly poorly from early October. Unable to make his \u201cinternal plumbing\u201d work, extreme anaemia and suspected feline leukaemia. By 19th October he had had enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We were privileged to share our lives with Beige and will never forget or stop loving him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

RIP, our handsome boy.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We had to say goodbye to our beautiful boy at 09:20 on the morning of 19th October 2020. We are devastated. Early life Beige had a tough first six or so years. He was born on a farm in August 2003, but then kept with five other cats on the stairs of a terraced house.… Continue reading Goodbye Beige, our handsome boy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mikes-comments","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}