over the rainbow bridge

welcome to the rainbow bridge, feel free to stay a while and take a moment to think of the animals you've loved and love. we're all very warm and sleepy here.

21/01/24: i've got to be honest, i never really understood why people liked the concept of a rainbow bridge, and when i was a child i used to think it was kinda silly, even after we lost mimir. i think it was because the rainbow bridge (or at least the pages i saw on catster) seemed inherently connected to a christian belief in heaven which i have never had. i lost heimdall today though, and i get it now. right now, i feel like a rainbow bridge is a place for me to memorialise my oldest friend, heimdall, and the love and joy he brought and that i continue to hold for him.

heimdall

august 2006 - january 2024

this is a picture of him at his most glorious, fur-wise :)

i remember going to see heimdall and mimir as kittens when i was really young, its probably one of my earliest memories. the breeder had a family cat that was a blind and deaf old grey persian cat and i remember her yelling from another room as we met the kittens. i don't really remember sammy (the cat we had before) so mimir and heimie are my childhood cats. mimir sadly died from unknown causes, but likely some sort of heart attack when he was 4 or 5, and after that heimdall had a complete personality change and became the most needy and affectionate baby you've ever met.

about two or three years ago, he had some heart trouble we discovered he has an enlarged left ventricle. since then, he was a lot slower and started sleeping more, but was still as affectionate towards his family as ever.

he spent the last three hours of his life getting his ears scratched on a soft blanket and has rejoined his brother in the earth of the garden, where he will see many more summers and be close to the birds in the hedgerow.

mimir also died when the ground was hard and frosty, perhaps norwegian forest cats just like it that way :)

sammy

i only have one memory of sammy as he died (age 19!!) when i was 4-ish. he was, according to my mum, a grumpy bastard in his later years; something i feel he earned after moving to a new home and having to fight all the local cats to establish his territory. i recently discovered more photos of him than the handful i knew about so perhaps i will upload some of them here :)