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RE: 15,000 sp delegation challenge awards!
I'm so happy to have entered this competition on behalf of @tremendospercy I feel he personifies many of the best attributes of this site. Although I'm also sure he was up against some really worthy competitors, great people all of them.
I'm really sorry to hear about El ChanChan, like yourself I have a kindred spirit with animals. As difficult as it is I've found the only thing that gives me strengh at times like these is the fact you gave El ChanChan an amazing life and he would known how loved he was. The tree was a beautiful gesture, over the years it will grow and produce the fruit of life and each year that it does you'll remember your beautiful cat with love in your heart and a smile on your face. Love never dies my friend.
that's a beautiful image.
He was born in Pucallpa, Peru, almost 3 years to the date. Most people in Pucallpa are quite poor, it's a very rough zone that's been through intense ecological destruction at the hands of extractive industries, oil, timer, fishing...in a way that's difficult to imagine for myself having come from the US.
People there don't tend to take very good care of their 'pets', they're usually having a hard enough time of it themselves to worry much over the animals. ChanChan was probably the luckiest kitten in Pucallpa. He traveled the western hemisphere and visited lands far and wide!! And he got to play outside every night, whether we were camping by the side of the road, or sleeping at home. Little bandit probably ate better then most people :P He would come on walks with us in the woods, like it was no big deal. Just whats happening...
One night in winter we got a terrible storm, the wind just lashing things around...and our house didn't have a roof yet, so we had covered it with tarp...and this big 30ft x 40ft tarp was just getting ripped around making horrid cracking noises, and we thought the whole thing was about to take off...Sydney and I lept out of bed at 3am to run downstairs from my father's house, to try and pull the tarp back down and batten it down again...and it's sleeting all over the place, huge cracks of thunder and lightning and the tarp splitting the air...we rush outside half naked and El ChanChan is right there beside us!! He lept right out of bed to come help =) Best wingkitten ever.
Thanks for the wonderful images perceptual! I appreciate it.
That's no problem my friend, I appreciate your reply as I know it must be difficult for you at the moment, I'm really glad you were able to take something from the image. He sounds like an amazing cat and what a life you gave him, he lived the life of ten cats and if his time was to be short you certainly made sure it was as full as possible.