This is not the best photo of Leroy. I could have put in my first photos of him still in pen 3 where he went from a flea ridden, fighting skeleton (that will be the other photo - his official YCR inmate snap and my avatar on here) always more inclined to chase bags and dance in scarfs as his take on predatordom - and never a one for scraps (he was never going to be too hot at straydom) to a cat that danced at his pen door and we had seen each other and he scrambled onto my lap when i went in. I could also put a million photos of the little steel dragon with his eyes that see. And a million videos, he may have been the oldest cat (by over 10 years) in the house but if there was a cat toy about best leave it to the leaps, spits and pummeling and kicking of that funny kitten with the beard. He raised our kittens, Uncle Leroy showed Nemo how to loose your self to the scarf and pawed his head when he got too reckless, but with his girl boo, hours of head kicking wrestling, till she was the bravest lost (not)feral kitten ever.
This is the photo I took the day before he died, the day he enjoyed chicken and head strokes and we all knew he would leave and we all did not what the future to move towards us where he wasn't there. Our most beautiful, amazing dragon cat, eyes bright, trotting after Ginger in the Firebright and Linda show, Professor Bunting the tensile strength of his tail greater than my neck he would push against your face with open mouthed purr. He talked to lava lamps and sky dived from tree branches and we loved him.
he looked at me
i think i am dying, i think this is my end
and i promised i am with you
not every breath in your face
but i will stay with you
and be with you whatever the end
how wrong and impotent and right and the greatest wrong
my friend, i love you
this is the hardest thing and in seconds i will be destroyed
but lost and destroyed
i am with you
i grasp at this present
but nothing is in the future
and you leap from trees, bark, whip your tail and trot down walls
in the existing moments of the past
1/1/14
Only i wasn't destroyed because you left a little of your strength behind. born ?19?? came home to us in June 2011 and left us missing you like hell 2/1/14 Leroy Wyvern Murgatroyd - we salute you xxxx
