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WhiteTiger
January, 30th, 2004, 12:44 PM
For those that don't know me.

My parents and I save wild Big Cats in Russia. Right now we have two Siberian Tigers, two Snow Leopards, and three Snow Leopard kittens.



I will tell you a quick story about another Snow leopard that my father used to have, called Alfo.

This would be sadest memory about a Snow Leopard my father had saved when I had been only a little kid.

This Snow Leopard was called Alfo. She passed away sadly last year.


She was the most beautiful, smartest, gentlest animal I have known.


She was only 2 feet long, kind of big from the typical standards of a cat, but kind of small to the standards of the Snow Leopard.

Whenever I was reading some books for school, when I used to go to school, she would bounce onto my back, curl up so that her tail was over my right shoulder.

She would usually flick her tail from side to side, brushing the pages back and forth as I tried to read. She was annoying when she did that, but I loved her all the same.

Sometimes she'd lick my ear and purr, or just go to sleep. Once when she got freaked out she dug her claws into my back and did some damage, but it wasn't her fault.

A wailing baby is enough to make anyone freak out. [my younger Segri had been born as this point].


Sadly, she was run over in the summer of last year. She was old, she could barely walk [usually either myself or my father carried her about], she was deaf, and almost blind.

Though she was old, she lasted two days before she finally passed away.

We buried her in the backyard. Lately a small tree has started to push its way through the ground.


In that sense, it is kind of ironic because my American grandparents [my mother is American] used to call Alfo, "Early Blossom."

Chrisanne
January, 30th, 2004, 12:55 PM
awwwwwwww I'm sorry for your loss.

But the tree will be a forever reminder of your beautiful cat.

MistyMeanor
January, 30th, 2004, 01:21 PM
I am very sorry...

tonib809
January, 30th, 2004, 02:04 PM
awww, Im very sorry :(:(

WhiteTiger
January, 30th, 2004, 03:39 PM
Thank you for you responses.

But one of the kittens, the female that was born yesterday, who has so been far called Eara. Looks just like Alfo.

Anyone believe in afterlife?????

MistyMeanor
January, 30th, 2004, 05:39 PM
Totally! Maybe shes re-incarnated!

WhiteTiger
January, 30th, 2004, 08:23 PM
I hope so... Alfo was a very speical animal.

The first big cat I actually got to know.

She was my best friend, a body guard for my brother, and whenever my father went to present speeches he'd take her around to show people just show beautiful these animals are.

If Eara is just like Alfo, then she would follow into a similar career i suppose

WhiteTiger
January, 31st, 2004, 06:52 PM
I just remembered, while I am sitting here typing, looking over at the tree. Alfo's last day in this world.:cry: :cry:

Just a sec... Need to compose myself.


I already mentioned that she had been run over, and lasted two days before she finally passed away.

Well, while I am looking at the tree, I remembered that before she had died, she had been lying peacefully on her old blanket, head resting on my lap.

My father and mother had taken my brother out because they did not want him to see her death. It would be too much for him since he is only a little boy [though 15].

I stayed, sitting near where she laid, rubbing her head softly as her rough tongue licked my right hand which laid on my lap beside her head.

Suddenly, the licking stopped, the golden eyes glinted for a second, and then Alfo was still.

I remember this as if it was yesterday, I didn't move, for the whole two hours that my brother and parents were gone. I didn't care for the cramping of my legs or knees.

Finally, they came home, my brother was asleep, but my parents they were fully awake.

Rather than wake my brother, they put him to bed for he had never really known Alfo as well as the rest of us had.

There was a soft muttering of words, I can't remember what was said, I was in too much of a daze.

Then under the cover of moonlight, my father carried the limp body out into the backyard. Grabbed a shovel, dug a deep hole.

More words were said.

The snow white body was lowered into the ground, the hole was covered.

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:cry: :cry:


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Oh God, why do the good ones have to go??????????