I must tell you this little story

It happened about two decdses ago

A little kitten came to our house

She was a little "Calico"

The next door lady gave her away

To a woman down the road

She did not stay: she came back

To our house, she slowly strode.

She'd rub her love against your legs

No attention did I give her

Not even to caress at first

Sure!  She had a loving purr.

She had to hunt for all her food

A great hunter she became

She's bring to me her kill soometimes

Only to make me feel ashame.

I started feeding her one day

In the house so undisturbed

A name for her, it had to be

"Miss Calico" was just superb.

A special chair I gave to her

When after eating she would go

Only in this chair she laid

Over the years, she would out-grow.

J. R. had built a ped-es-tal

By the window for her to sit

Out over the hay meadows she would look

She ruled her domain, I must admit.

Our neighbor's little boy would come

He wanted to know what she was on

One day I told him, "That's her THRONE"

He tried to say it, but it came out THRONG.

Miss Calico had her loving ways

Won ev-ery-body's heart

They could not help but talk to her

Before they would depart.

Even Dan, our nice postman

Would talk to her, when on the porch he crept

And leaving mail on her bench

On the bench where she would sleep.

The most pre-cious thing I think I've seen

Miss Calico do, when spoken to

I'd say, "Oh!  I know, you're so pretty"

She's flop over: with the love, to bestow.

In winter was the only time

She would jump up into your lap

Some petting she would take for a-while

And then at you, she'd snap.

She had many funny antics

When the can opner, she would hear

To the kitchen, she would scamper

To see what morsels you can spare.

She loved this place, she saw it grow

House being built ~ Barn being built

"CALICO MEADOWS", we named our place

All just for her, we have no guilt.

For more than nineteen years, now

We cherished our Miss Calico

Today is the first an-ni-ver-sary

Of the day she had to go.

If there is such a place as

"Cat Heaven", she has to be

Happy and content I wish for her

"Rest in peace with a good heart and our love".

Vina Carathers

June 23, 2000

Miss Calico's Urn was placed in the casket with Ms. Vina Carathers March 25, 2021.

Ms. Vina and Miss Calico are together again for  enternity.

Miss Calico Januarry 8, 1980 - June 24, 1999