Tahi Aroha Little

Today, the 21st of November 2006, Tahi our absolutely adored cat died - you will always be part of us.


Tahi you gave Sarah and I a sense of Whanau in the desert city of Las Vegas. A city that was filled with people searching for a better life - a life that was not in Las Vegas! This dichotomy made Vegas lonely and you filled our lives with a sense of "home".

There are SO many warm memories that you conjure up:

• Meeting you in Stephanie St PetsMart - where no other puss wanted to know me and yet you where all over the cage grill saying "Hi Guys. I'll let you be mine" - whereas your fellow cell-mates where scared of me.
• I use to leave my Las Vegas office and started to call your name - even though it was a 45 minute bike ride.
• Your head butts.
• Biting my feet when I got out of bed because you were hungry.
  
• Leading me to the bathroom taps so I could turn them on for you.
  
• Catching desert bugs and bringing in big green grasshoppers.
  
• Scaling the outsides of our stucco apartment.
• Drinking from our bed side cups in the middle of the desert nights.
  
• Watching you in Mum's arms passing through the metal detectors in Las Vegas airport.
• A week in some tiny San Francisco motel room.
• Our San Fran apartment that was too hot, Mum wouldn't let you sit on the open fifth floor window sill, Dad use to entice you around those "strange noise" hallways and your electronic cat litter box.... Oh! Don't forget your magic cat tower!!!
• You spent "six weeks on a leaky boat" to join us in New Zealand.
• Taking me across the road to your new found Toi Toi or the grass where you pee. :)
  
• You maintaining your nails on Grandma's couches, the landlord's car tires, The beam that Mum put out front for you and the letterbox post.
• Needing me to feed you with my toes.
• Leaving muddy foot prints on the bathroom vanity - much to Mum's horror!
  

Tahi Aroha we miss you very much and you will always be in our hearts and memories.

Love

Dad