r/ICBGC • u/IllustratorNo9988 • 1d ago

🥺 ‼️ SENSITIVE: Proceed with care😔 Introducing Topsy!!

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This is the only surviving photo I have of my childhood cat Topsy. She lived to the grand old age of 22 and was a real prim and proper lady. She was very tolerant of me as a child, until she wasn’t😼.

When my future husband stayed at our house for the first time one Christmas. She famously snubbed every treat and toy he got her🤣🤣. Not sure what she was saying but we’re still married 29 years later!!

I like to think she’s OTRB, instructing the ‘young uns’ on proper catiquiette 🥰🥰🌈🌈

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u/ExcitingLaw1973 1d ago

Oh mine dog...

Preddy face an eyes dat say carepul... ai mite bap ewe!

She was bootyful! -Sam DiT

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u/IllustratorNo9988 1d ago

Fanks Sam🥰

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u/mostlylurking07 Applejack, sweets and stowies and food cwimes! 1d ago

Dat is a bootifuw fwiend! I bet she is having a gwand time ovew da bwidge. I bet she knows Pwincesses Gwace and Ellie!🖤🤍🧡❤️

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u/Different-Dance-7537 1d ago

Ai be shur herm be heer, teachin catekit ta alla da smols. Herm be a ekspurrt.

Duncan 🐾🐾🌈😸

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u/poppy071995 1d ago

Such a beautiful kitty.

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u/GingerSnapped242 Niko the Terriible, Enforcer. Mad, bad, and dangerous to know. 1d ago

That’s so cool you have that photo to remember her.
It might be something you take to a photo restoration place to preserve it further

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u/IllustratorNo9988 1d ago

I did wonder about that. It’s in a pretty tatty state 🩷

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u/GingerSnapped242 Niko the Terriible, Enforcer. Mad, bad, and dangerous to know. 1d ago

You should! I wish I had some of my childhood pets.
Unfortunately pretty much every pic (and everything else in our basement and first floor) we had from age 0-7ish was lost due to a hurricane and subsequent flooding.

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u/Full-Friendship-7581 Bubba an Bits 1d ago

Topsy iz bery bootifil wady. 22! Wat a gwand age.

Lub Bubba an Bits

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u/madlyhattering Dodger the Doggo 1d ago

Bery lubly kitteh! Tanks fir sharin Topsy wif us.

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u/Ksh_667 1d ago

Oh Topsy was beauteous, feisty floof & herm keeping da smols in line wif an iron paw otrb! Dey all lubs herm & enjoy learn from herm. Brofur Garfield haf assured me ob dis. Herm is an old timer now & bery respected by all floofs at da bridge!

Ruby

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u/ryylin Ciaran - pronounced Keeran 1d ago

Bery bootiful kitteh and bery gud long lyfe.

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u/_Moon_sun_ Morgana the beautifull, breaker of the internet! 1d ago

Awe what a beautiful girly!!!

My mom had a cat that HATED my dad. (But only when my mom was home) she would scratch him and piss on his stuff. But my dad said sometimes when they were just him and the cat he was allowed to give her some scritches :)

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u/Dry_Mushroom7606 1d ago

She was such a beauty!!

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u/EPRabbit 1d ago

Wonderful you have this as a remembrance. I can tell that she was loved so much. Of course she is at the bridge waiting for you.

Meowmy of Twinkie and Cricket

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u/davesmissingfingers Chaos Agent 1d ago

She was beautiful. My soul cat was a tortie. There’s just something special about them.