Zazu

Zazu Obituary

ByGeoff

Zazu (31 Jul 1995 – 29 May 2014)

A few memories.
  • Sleeping in the purple vest – while I had it on. She liked winter best because of that vest and really missed it each year when I stopped wearing it.
  • Watching every shovel of dirt I shovelled in the backyard. 34 buckets a day for months with Zazu standing or lying watching.
  • Walking up the planking we had set up on the old back deck. Prancing up and down it to show how clever she was.
  • Sleeping in the bed – between the sheets.
  • Playing football with the kids next door – them kicking the rugby ball to each other and Zazu standing in the middle chasing the ball each time.
  • Jumping over the balcony railing and falling down, with a puzzled look but looking up at the rail. ‘How could I have missed that’
  • Failed covering litter tray 101. Scratching everything in a metre radius.
  • Holding one end of the tape measure down for the bloke who came to measure the windows.
  • Going out to count her fish every morning.
  • Taking on the scrub turkey in the backyard – it back down and went a different way.
  • Taking on the chocolate spaniel in the front yard – and colliding with Wookie at the same time. Huh?
  • Not playing with Tain when she first arrived – him wanting to play and her not knowing how.
  • Climbing trees as a kitten with Tain running around the base – ‘help her down’
  • Climbing up my leg when she was a kitten.
  • Pulling herself along our legs in the bed when she was a kitten.
  • Taking on a magpie on a road trip. It had come down for food. Zazu just walked into the space and licked down her shoulders.
  • A travel cat. Initially, she was terrified of the car and tried to bury herself under the seats. She soon became very used to the car and van – when packing was being done and the van pulled out, she was first in the van and was a frequent visitor to see where we were up to.
  • Show off cat. I a van park, we would often take Zazu for a walk. People were amazed at this cat on a lead and she would prance about showing off and greeting everyone. She knew exactly where our van was with relationship to her and if anything startled her, she made a direct line back to the van.
  • Travel with her rotated around her need for a piss. We would wait every day for Zazu to have a piss before we could leave. Then, stop every hour to see if she needed another.
  • As she got older she had considerable trouble with painful pissing. Very stressful.
  • The world needed to revolve around Zazu.

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