Bridget, Escapologist

Bridget bear passed this week away after an incredibly short illness. So short, in fact, that we didn't realize she was sick until the evening she died.  She lay down on the tiles in the dining room and within what was probably less than three hours had slipped quietly away.

Bridget was one of Muguet's four kittens. Unlike the others, particularly Clodie and Squeaks, she wasn't traumatized by having Terramycin drops put into her eyes twice a day for a week while Judith was attending a conference.  When she arrived, we kept her and her siblings in two pens in the living room for a couple of weeks to get them acclimated to the other cats - but she was determined to escape and explore and was quite adept at squeezing through the tiniest gap to get out.

Perhaps she used her escapologist skills to so easily slip the surly bonds of earth... and touch the face of god.  She was a sweet cat and an character; we will miss her greatly.