Our adorable cat Wobbles died suddenly yesterday, while I was flying back from Orlando. Alayne told me the news after I got home. He was found dead in the cat house, lying in a litterbox. We have no idea what happened. We are, as you can imagine, devastated by the sudden loss of our little boy. Wobs, as we called him, was one of our iconic animals … he demonstrated better than anyone how much a disabled animal can enjoy life.
He had arrived as an 8-week old kitten from a shelter in Moses Lake, Washington. He was our first animal with cerebellar hypoplasia, and his wobbling antics endeared him to everyone who knew him. We had never encountered this neurological condition before his arrival, and since then many other wobblers — cats and dogs — have followed him to the ranch.
Wobbles loved — absolutely loved — people, and he was always the first to wobble out to greet visitors to the cat house. He was an affectionate tyke with a built-in purr machine. If you picked him up and held him, he would sink into your arms and purr away. He was also a scamp, and despite his compromised motor skills, he was an ace at bursting through the screen door to get outside. And what did he love to do once outside? Roll around in the dirt and gravel, getting as dusty as he could. He was the original "rolling cat" at the Rolling Dog Ranch. The cat house will never be the same without him.
We are still coming to terms with the suddenness of it. He was young, only about five years old, so his death was completely unexpected. Late today I took his body to our vets in Helena so they can do a necropsy to find out what caused his death. We feel we owe it to him to at least understand why this little life was taken away so early.
I was struck tonight by reading his original story we posted on his page several years ago. The last line reads, "We’ll never be able to call Wobbles a real ‘stand-up guy,’ but this little youngster should enjoy a long … if unbalanced … life here at the ranch."
It was not to be.
Goodbye, Wobs. We love you.
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