Our life with Erin

When the children were small we went through about 4 cats in a four year period (1986-1990) the cats got run over, ran away or caught a disease. After that we didn't have any opportunity to have a cat unti1 2003

My husband served as the summer pastor at a small church in the country that summer. We lived in a house next door to the church. It was actually a mobile home that had been put on a basement. Anyhow, it had not been lived in for awhile and had plenty of space of mice to come in. For awhile we trapped them and that kept us very busy. Then one day we got a kitten, and the real fun began. She was a great mouser in no time, but she chose me instead of my daughter or my husband to bring the mice to.  It was usually still alive. It was horrid; she'd be chasing and tormenting the mouse all over the house. Sometimes I had to drop a book on one to put it out of its misery.

I remember how one mouse got me deleted from a Paid to Read Email program. I was sitting there reading the email and as I was reading I got distracted because the cat chased a real live mouse over my foot. I clicked on a cheat link and they deleted my account and I was almost at cashout. I wrote to the webmaster, but of course they didn't believe me that I was actually talking about a real live mouse.

  Erin was a very loveable and cuddly cat.  She was actually my daughter's cat, but she spent a lot of time around me.  She used to sleep in the desk drawer that so she can could be close to me while I was on the computer. I had also made her a dolly out of odd castoffs. She love that and played with it until it was totally shredded .

We brought her us with her when we moved to Grand Manan in November 2003. We only got to keep her until March 2004. She was an indoor and outdoor cat, and one morning got run over by a car. It was very sad. I woke up to hearing my daughter screaming. She had gone to the bus stop and found Erin lying beside the road. I don't recall if she went to school that day. My husband buried Erin and Christy made a headstone for her out of some rocks from our back yard