Cosmo 2013 - 2024

 Our sweet loving Cosi died on 5/8 at 2:19am.  Cosmo was a very friendly and loving cat. He was our greeter and the defender of our home.  Whenever a bug got into the house he was on it!  He was a lover of boxes and a secret cuddler at night (he didn't like anyone else catching him cuddle).  He loved sitting on our chair by the island and watching everyone.  He was VERY food motivated and begged for food like a dog would.  He was always in someone's business looking for something to eat.

When we originally went to the shelter, Peanut had a brother, Rex, that we were going to adopt instead.

However, when we walked into the other room and met Mr. Personality we knew that he would be our boy!  It look us a few days to be able to get him because he caught a cold right before we could get him, but I guess in that week he had all kinds of people looking to adopt him. His litter mates were all pure white and they were adopted out before him.

Here's Cody holding our boy, who was originally named Eggnog but we changed it to Cosmo right away.  We had just gotten engaged in Vegas at the Cosmopolitan so we knew that we wanted to name one of our cats Cosmo.

At first, I think Cosmo looked all that attractive, but he definitely filled out and was a pretty boy.

He was a super playful kitten.

Playing!

Running Around.

We found him on Jan 5th 2014, but actually brought him home on Jan 19th 2014.  

First looks into the house.

They always loved each other!

Our little baby boys.

Cuddling with daddy!

My baby box boy!

When we first got him, it seemed like every time that we petted him that we shocked him!  I'm not sure why.  He was SUPER cuddly and wanting petted all the time, but the poor boy kept getting shocked.

In his box.

Cuddling on the couch.

Sweet boys!

This one doesn't even look like him to me.

This is one of my favorite pictures of them.

Brothers.

Our social entertainer boy.

Always sitting by the food area.

Eating food.

Get that birdy!

Protector!

Love this picture of him looking at himself.

My silly boy.

Pretty Cosi.

Love this one of them.

This was one of my learning to take pictures shots.  He was my model.

He LOVED playing with the laser when he was younger.

Getting my turkeys!!

Sitting in his chair.

Brother love. They were the best of friends.  Poor Peanut has been so sad without him.  He cried for days and looked all over house for him.

Getting the laser.

Boys looking out the window.

I love this picture of them on the bed.

My handsome boy!

Looking up!

Probably bribed him to look with a treat.

They always play fighted each other.

Cosi loved his grandma!  Until Kayla was born she would always bring him a treat or a toy.  She loved him!

He would always get into her bag when she came over.

Cody and Cosi

Photography lesson!

My model.

Cute boy!

Playing with daddy

Too big for such a small box.

I was setting up a photoshoot for Suzie and Cosi was interested in my set up!

He hopped right into my basket for her to go into.

I love this picture of him!!  He was SO chill about it.

Awesome boy.

Pretty boy.

Peanut always ruled the roost and even though Cosi was bigger than him he always had to defer to him.

Poor boy had a problem with his paw... it was sore and bleeding.  So we took him in and he had to get a steroid which did fix it for him.  But they also noticed that some of his teeth were bad so we had to get those removed as well.

Poor boy without his teeth.  They said that night that he might be tired and not ready to eat.  They didn't know our boy.  He came home and staggered straight to his food bowl.  He was a good eater.

The boys in each of their beds.

Peanut did try to overtake this bed from Cosi, but the other one was too small for him, so I think this is the one area in which Cosmo didn't let Peanut push him around in.

His favorite spot in the winter was under our Christmas tree.  He loved laying under it.

Christmas toys.

He was such a playful boy.

Love this family picture.

They both like being under the tree, but it was really Cosi's spot.

I think he liked the softness of the tree skirt and maybe the heat from the vent.

So happy and content.

Here he is doing his Cosi Paws.  He would always come lay on me and kneed me.  I'd always have to pull the blankets up so that he didn't poke me with his claws.  He never meant to scratch but his nails would poke me as he was getting comfy. He was such a big boy to have on my chest too.  I always felt loved when he would cuddle up on my chest and then lick my forehead. He loved his face rubbed.

He followed us all around.

Hoping for an ice cube to drop.

What's for me??  

He had to try out all of Kayla's new items.

Ohhh what's this??  

He was such a good boy with Kayla.  He came right up to meet her.

Introducing him to Kayla.

He was our protector laying with us as we slept.

Newborn babies are hard.  Poor sleepy boy.

He loved the perch that Peanut was on.

Checking out Kayla's stuff again... my Mr. Snoopy.

My box boy...

Got into another box... his favorite.

Laying on Nana's bed.

And then she could crawl!  He would stay JUST out of her reach.

He was like... you can't get me.

Na na na boo boo.

Getting close to her...

Watching from a distance.

Uh oh!  Here she comes!

Vrooom!  Off he goes.

He was so chill with her and was so interested in her.

He was always watching and playing with her.

Here she comes.

Ohhh he's like... she's eating... whatcha got?

Hoping she'll give him a snack.

She's able to stand and get him now...

He hopped up like oh crap!

Back to higher ground.

Cuddle boy

My sweet lover boy

I think he thought he was hiding...

Nope... she found him.

Her first Christmas we had to put his tree in a different room and gate it off.

Invading his tree spot.

When she was born we picked up some of the cat toys and had kid toys around so he played with hers.

He LOVED plastic eggs!  And always played with them all of the time.  

Silly boy!  This is his pet my face look.

We had to teach her to be gentle.  He was so sweet and patient with her.

More night time secret cuddles.

Following me into the bathroom again!

Looking out into the world.

In his spot.

Best friends!

He LOVED fresh canned cat food.  It was a delicacy to him.

He didn't love being held because he was so big.

Cuddles!

Awww a girl and her cat.

He loved laying on his belly like this.

She was always with him.

He'd only cuddle when it was one or the other one of us and no Peanut around.  When someone else was there he'd go away.

This rascal!  I had to close my door every time I was in my computer room because he would come in and scratch at my chair so that I'd pet him.

Watching me work and wanting attention.

She loved him.

That's my bed!

Look at that silly cat!  This was only a few months before he died.  He got sick so quickly.

Silly boy.

They liked this bed.

He needed brushed all the time because he SHED constantly.

He did like being brushed.

Laying with him momma and his brother.

My boys

Now we had known that Cosmo had been losing a lot of weight throughout the year and we figured that he was sick.  He had also been drinking and peeing a lot so we thought that he might have been diabetic.  However, he had been just fine and had been himself.  On Sunday night, I went to bed and I had to step over him which was odd.  I came home on Monday and Cody told me that he didn't think that Cosmo was doing that well.  We noticed that he was just laying and wasn't really eating.  He was also seemingly pretty weak and not walking too well.

He moved around a little on Monday but not much.  We tried giving him a treat and he looked up but didn't take it.  We opened a can of cat food and he wasn't interested so we knew something was really wrong. I was so worried I'd come home on Tuesday and that he would have died, but thankfully he didn't.

Peanut knew something was wrong too.  I came home on Tuesday and he couldn't walk or move at all. I picked him up and cuddled him on the couch.  I told him what a good boy he was and how much I loved him and what a good cat he had been.  I told him that I would get a fly swatter incase any bugs got into the house.  It was a really good moment between the two of us, but at first I wasn't sure if he was even that aware.  He wasn't moving or reacting much at all.  However, once I sat him down and walked away he let out the saddest meow.  I could tell that he wanted me with him.  So I sat by him the entire night comforting him.  At one point, he peed himself on the towels Cody had set up for him and he cried while he was doing it.  So we knew that he was bad off and weren't sure how much longer we'd have him.  We all sat with him and petted, said goodbye, and stayed with him.  Cody and Kayla went to bed but I couldn't leave him.  I didn't have my work computer so I wasn't sure what I was going to do the next day, but I knew that I couldn't leave him.  I kept trying to get him to close his eyes and to rest, but he seemed scared to close his eyes.  He kept them wide open... I think he knew that if he closed them that he wouldn't open them again. Eventually, I set us both up a little nest in the living room.  I was petting and rubbing him... every time I stopped petting him he cried.  I must have petted him for 6-8 hours.  I was surprised by how much he needed and wanted me at that moment.  So I was petting him as I laid down to get some rest but I kept waking up every so often to check on him.   I think he'd cry as I stopped petting and that woke me up.  At 2:19am I woke up and he looked different and I just knew that he was gone.  He was still really warm but I felt him and realized that he wasn't breathing anymore.  So I stayed with him to make sure for a while and I knew he was gone.  Around 3-3:30am I went up to bed and told Cody.  I had something that I needed to do at work the next day so I went in to make sure that something came in, but I was a wreck.

I was trying to pick out Cosmo's urn and figure out where to take him.  I ended up leaving work early and calling our local vet about getting him cremated.  Cody had woken up early and put him a big box and placed him in the basement.  We went together to the North Royalton Animal Hospital that afternoon and dropped him off.  I really like how his urn turned out and it's on our morning room table.

The next day the vet sent us flowers and a nice leather book with his paw prints in time.  They also gave us a vial with his hair in it.  It was very sweet of them.  We are so sad to have lost our big boy.  Peanut was also very sad.  He walked around the house looking and crying for about 2 weeks for his brother.  It's so hard to lose an animal and this is the first animal that I was momma to that I lost.  This was also Kayla's first experience with death, but she didn't fully understand it and seemed to be mostly ok. Our hearts will always love our boy.  On our last vacation, we normally wave to the kitties from our house and Kayla was sad because we couldn't wave to Cosi anymore.  I told her that we were so close to heaven that we could wave from the plane and that maybe he'd see us from here.  I told her that he was on the rainbow bridge and that if she saw a rainbow then she knows that it's Cosi saying hi to her.  Every since she's commented on rainbows and said hi to him.