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1996, June 26 --
My sister called tonight from her home in Santa Monica. She had just
talked to my dad who lives in Santa Barbara along with Oreo, the family cat.
found when she came to feed him and let him inside for the night. Neither
arrive home later than he expects to come in and be fed. My dad later found
there have been coyotes spotted nearby, it is assumed that he was caught and
killed by one of them. I will greatly miss him and his companionship over
the years.
After the phone call, I desperately wanted to memorialize my little friend in some way. Some people may think it is corny, but I could think of nothing more fitting at this time than a web memorial. That very night I had a paragraph essentially the same as the above one in my home page and a few days later added a banner picture similiar to the above one with a link to the full size photo.
1996, September 29 -- Now I have cleaned things up and devoted a whole page to the memorial, with a new memorial banner, a background image, and a total of six pictures of
1998, January 11 --
Added four more pictures.
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These pictures were taken by myself using a 35mm Pentax ME camera. The
prints were scanned in on an Avec 2400 scanner using Adobe Photoshop.
Most of the shots are of Oreo sleeping. He seemed to do a lot of that.
Absolutely none of the pictures was posed. Cat owners will easily believe
this. Most cats will absolutely refuse to cooperate with anything they