Well my friends, it's true - on sunday 11/15/1998 I had to leave this earth.

Some of you know it already: since approx. 1 year I was suffering on diabetes (nobody knows why). I didn't like all kind of injections, so my people had to give me a special diet, drops and pills instead of insulin. This was really good for my figure - but from than on I never was the same again.

I suppose it's time for a short glance back:
... I was born on 04/12/1986 in Neu-Ulm (Germany) - together with 3 sisters.
... my parents were Amhara (left) and Menelik (right)

... my daddy Menelik has had a harem of kitty woman and he was the "King".

When my new human "parents"  got to know me, lot's of action was in our little shack: we were approx. 23 cats and kitten - all of us had to be provided by their owner (Bernd Hoppe). I believe, that he was quiet happy when 2 people from the surroundings of Stuttgart arrived  and took one of the mischievous gang: ME !!

That means - actually it was vice versa: it was ME who chose those humans !! My little sister seemed to impress those humans as well, but she was so shy, that she hid herself immediately when the visitors arrived.

I was totally different: curiously I snuffled at those humans and at that nice basket they brought along with them. The man has has such a glittery ring at his finger - I tried to play with him immediately. To make it short: THIS were MY humans.

When they took me the first time with their car, I was NOT enthusiastic about that. However, my new home was a WOW: a whole flat totally for me (o.k., I accepted that my new humans wanted to live with me in that flat - finally I needed anybody to open my whiskas cans  ;-) ).

All day long, I run purring from one room to the other and inspected the whole flat. From the balcony I had a fantastic outlook to the garden.

By the way, I was excellent in purring, my humans expressed always, that I'm the world champion in purring.
And sometimes, when I sharpened my claws, they named me "captain claw".

Some years later we moved to Murr. This was much more better: now I've had a complete house exclusively for me. I could investigate all rooms and look again and again for new places to sleep.

Sometimes a cat from our neighborhood visited us. My humans stoke that cat and gave her some titbits !! I always was very jealous - this was MY house and this were MY humans !!!