All about Hobbie

I know that many people reading this blog may never know our kitty, Hobbie, but he is a pretty special cat. The story of Hobbie begins like this...One summer about 14 years ago Craig and his mom and dad went on vacation, since there has always been pets on the "farm" so Craig's sister Julie was watching the house for her mom and dad while they were gone. So this little yellow kitten shows up at the house, well if you know anything about Julie she is a sucker for strays. Dogs, cats, pidgeons, pigs, you name it, she saves it. So she names the cat "Hobbie" as in a hobo cat and he is there to stay. Well, Hobbie loves Craig, so when Craig and I got married and moved into our house, we decided that he would come and live with us. He adapted very well...he didn't miss his little cat friends at Craig's parents house. So continues the life of Hobbie. Along came Keagan and we wondered how Hobbie would do with a little baby that would soon turn into a little toddler that would chase after him(Hobbie HATES being chased by little kids). Hobbie surprised us when we brought Keagan home, you should have seen him the first time that we gave Keagan a sponge bath, Keagan screamed the whole time and Hobbie was frantic, trying to get up to Keagan to see what was wrong. Keagan and Hobbie are friends now, though even Keagan can't chase him. So as I have said in posts before, the end of May we found out that Hobbie had a tumor on his neck. Its a big decision to make, do you want to try and save him or let him go...well we couldn't just let him go so we took him to the best kitty surgeon and he had surgery. The tumor was malignant but chemo can help so we started him on chemo and he is supposed to go Monday for his second round but this week hasn't been so good to Hobbie. He is on a downward slide and hopefully it will start looking up. My poor husband is going to be crushed if and when something happens to Hobbie. He is already gearing himself up to have to make the decision to put him down. Hopefully that decision can be put off for a while...