The Awesome Ms. Beatrice - AKA Capt. Sammich- AKA Boo-ba- RIP, Sweet Girl

We lost our beautiful girl, Ms. Bea, recently.  It's going to be hard to be in our house without her there as she has been for 16+ plus years when she showed up as a young stray at our house and just would not go away.  Thank you for choosing us, Ms. Bea.  We love you and are going to miss you greatly.

Ms. Bea took her first real trip very recently and got to see and smell the beach in Destin, Florida.  She was a trooper throughout the trip despite being elderly in cat years and a real home-body for her entire life.

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Ms. Bea showed up at our house as a young stray and just would not go away.  She was determined to live with us.  I even carried her off a few streets when she first showed up thinking she would find her home, and she came right back to us.  

 The next time I was going to take her farther away became the biggest argument Ashlee and I ever had as she threatened to leave and take Ms. Bea with her to Chattanooga.  We compromised by letting Ms. Bea stay locked in the garage overnight since every time she jumped up on our bedroom window sill at night our first cat, Mabel, would just go nuts and wake us up.  We figured if she didn't like the garage, she would leave.  She did not.  Once we knew she was going to stay, we had to get her fixed.  It was winter when her procedure was done, so she wound up in the warm house to recover, and never left.  Crazy Mabel eventually came around to Ms. Bea's sweet disposition and they actually became the best of friends.

One of my favorite recent pictures from just a few summers ago when we are all lounging out on the patio on a warm afternoon.  We miss both of these old girls immensely.

We were sadly out of town when Ms. Bea passed, but we got to talk to her on the phone before she left us thanks to our great cat sitter, Anjie.  We decided to have her cremated and the vet did a beautiful job with it.  Ms. Bea now sits on our den coffee table just as she did a thousand times before.

We hope these two old friends are together again somewhere - stretching and lounging the day away in comfortable bliss.
We miss you both greatly.