{"id":1485,"date":"2009-06-26T02:51:39","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T10:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2009-06-26T11:40:23","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T19:40:23","slug":"hannah-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/hannah-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannah RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1485 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/hannah-rip\/hannah-self-portrait\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/hannah-self-portrait-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Hannah was a big, fluffy manx.\u00a0 She hated that.\u00a0 She hated that her appearance invited cuddling, as if she were some kind of plush doll.\u00a0 How demeaning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t these humans understand?\u00a0 I&#8217;m a vicious beast.\u00a0 I have claws!\u00a0 And fangs!\u00a0 I could have them all for a snack, like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Actually, Hannah didn&#8217;t have front claws, but she would sharpen them anyway against a door post or cardboard box when she saw me coming.<\/p>\n<p>Hannah put up with us gamely.\u00a0 She would walk up to Tess and meow, and Tess would say, &#8220;Hi sweetie pie!\u00a0 Do you want hugs and kisses?&#8221;\u00a0 Hannah would furrow her furry brow as if to say, &#8220;How clueless are you, human?\u00a0 I&#8217;m shedding and I need brushing.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t pick me up&#8230;no&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hannah came in a package deal with Tess.\u00a0 For the first ten of her fifteen years, it was just the two girls.\u00a0 They were inseparable.\u00a0 Tess took Hannah on business trips; the kitty would greet her when she got back to her room.\u00a0 Tess thought Hannah was the most beautiful, intelligent, loving creature in the world.\u00a0 Hannah saw Tess as beautiful and loving, as well, but a little dense.\u00a0 Hannah would tell her what she wanted&#8230;food, brushing, scratching, etc&#8230; and Tess would ask, &#8220;What is it, sweetheart?\u00a0 Do you want hugs and kisses?&#8221;\u00a0 You could see Hannah&#8217;s reaction:\u00a0 &#8220;Oh, what a dear idiot.&#8221;\u00a0 She would then repeat her request more slowly, so her dopey mom could understand.<\/p>\n<p>Of all the dim things her mom ever did, though, bringing me into their lives was the most inexplicable.\u00a0 &#8220;Don&#8217;t you understand, anything?&#8221; Hannah tried to warn her.\u00a0 &#8220;This big, ugly, stupid, hairless ape will ruin everything!&#8221;\u00a0 Hannah complained about me often.\u00a0 When Tess would return home, Hannah was always at the door to greet her, and tell her how I had tormented her with attention, or threats of attention, which for her was always unwanted, except for the chin scratching, and a little around the ear, when she indulged me.<\/p>\n<p>Even worse, the Man that Tess latched onto had two boys, which besides all that unwanted attention meant a total of six big feet, lumbering around like a clueless field of swinging mallets.\u00a0 Since she normally operated in stealth mode to avoid petting, we did occasionally kick or step on her by accident.\u00a0 Her mom did the same thing, but Hannah assumed, as when any misfortune befell her, that is was somehow my fault.<\/p>\n<p>Hannah met her end, as is common in old cats, with kidney failure.\u00a0 We treated her for months with hydration and medication which, from her vantage point was simply daily poking and having putrid liquids shoved down her throat.\u00a0 (Again, I was clearly to blame, even though her mom was often holding her.)\u00a0 On the second round of treatments for an infection, she finally said, &#8220;Enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hannah will be shipped to back to the farm in Missouri where she was born so her grandmother can bury her next to the family&#8217;s other favorite companions, Nick and Shorty.<\/p>\n<p>I already miss the ornery little fluffball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hannah was a big, fluffy manx.\u00a0 She hated that.\u00a0 She hated that her appearance invited cuddling, as if she were some kind of plush doll.\u00a0 How demeaning. &#8220;Don&#8217;t these humans understand?\u00a0 I&#8217;m a vicious beast.\u00a0 I have claws!\u00a0 And fangs!\u00a0 I could have them all for a snack, like that.&#8221; 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