Augie; My Black Stardust
Ever since my dad found her she had been apart of the family. Dad named her Augie after the cartoon Augie Doggy, but at that time he thought it was a male. She was always different from other cats. She had been spaded when she was just a kitten and grew up differently. Augie had black fur all over except for one white spot of her chest that looked like a lopsided heart. She had bright green eyes that just seemed to glow all the time. When I had been the age of five to seven I had other animals besides her. One of them happened to be a dog that my mom got for Dad. Strange as it may seem my dog, Belle, had pretty much the same colors as Augie. Black fur and one white spot, although Belle's white spot looked like a misshapen star then a heart. Also they got along real well. Now that I've moved out of that house I only had Augie left. Evelen, the eldest cat, had been put to sleep cause of feline leukemia. Her daughter, Sparkle, was also put to sleep cause of the same thing afterwards. Then Belle had been put to sleep before we moved, I had pretty much lost my mind around that time. I had hugged Augie close, with tears in my eyes, saying that I would never let anything make her or cause her to die. She had been about thirteen, human years. Six years had passed since then, we had lived six years in the new house not to mention that we're still living in it. I had gotten over the deaths of the others, but it still pained me. I had gotten a rabbit who I named speedy, cause he was the fastest out of his brothers and sisters. I still had Augie, she had started to gray in her black fur although never aging in her personality. Every night she'd come downstairs were I was on the computer. Most of the time she would sit on my feet keeping them warm. I thought I'd never lose her like the others, but I knew that one day she would die although I hoped that it wouldn't be in pain or of any disease. It had been an early Saturday morning, 5:00 am to be exact. A friend of mine was coming later on that day and I had wanted to get some sleep. You see Augie had been an inside-outside cat all her life. I had thought she was inside that night cause she usually is. During the night I had heard a dog barking, I shrugged it off as nothing important cause there were a lot of people that owned dogs all around. Then the barking was loud and close to my window, I had thought of going outside and scare the dog off. I had died down sometime later, I'm not exactly sure when. That morning my dad came in my room and woke me up, I thought it was because I had slept late and do I wish it was. He had told me that Augie had been killed last night, my heart stopped. Our neighbor's dog or dogs had came over and killed her. She had been eighteen, human years. It just wasn't fair. I should have gone outside that night, that might have saved her. Either that or be the first one to find out. I know it wasn't my fault and I don't blame myself, but it still just wasn't fair. We had buried her under a beautiful sapphire dragon tree, it a huge tree with heart-shaped leaves and lavender blossoms. I refused to look at her when we had buried her, I didn't want my last memory of her to be of when we buried her. I have to say that I'm still crying of the fact that she died. I was about to steal one of my dad's shot guns and head over to my neighbor's house and shoot the dog that killed her, I didn't get very far. You may think I'm just a crazed cat lover but I'm not. Augie had been in the family even before I was born. Now it's going to be difficult for my family and I to live with out her. There had only been one good thing that had happened over this whole ordeal, at least the sun shined for her. Fur of black, eyes of green Oh how I wished that I intervened You where a gift from the stars Becoming one in our hearts Many called you nasty and filthy because you were mostly covered in dust Adding quiet the effect on your black healthy fur The light danced in your eyes making it seem that you are younger Yet you're around a seventy-two or so Oh Augie, my dear sweet friend Oh how I wish to see you again Instead of the rocks that hide you from us Augie Black Stardust Born- ??/??/1982 Died- 9/9/2000 Lived to be eighteen in human years. Seventy-two in cat years
