Alpha Centauri Delyth
07/03/05 - 29/12/06

I don't know how even begin writing an obit for my gorgeous blue girl, and I really hoped I wouldn't be doing it so soon.  I know I shouldn't have favourites, but Del really was very special 

I got Delyth from Estelle in Spring 2005, as I'd always wanted a British Blue....so finally my dream girl arrived after a long wait!!  She was a gorgeous little podgy kitten, unbelievably laid back compared to the two burmese nutters she lived with...I was instantly smitten with the colour 

Delyth just got lovelier and lovelier with age.....when she was young she did well in the varieties classes at shows....and went on to perform very well in the pet classes....she was so unbelievably big and cuddly for a doe that she got mistaken for a buck on several occasions!  Everyone who met her fell in love with her...and she became a bit of a celebrity as she was so easily recognised, after all there aren't that many enormous blue does who like lying on their backs having belly kisses 

Sadly her health had taken a massive decline over the last few weeks, and she just wasn't my Delyth anymore  She just crashed last Thursday night, and was helped on her way first thing Friday morning 

I'll miss you so much Del, you were the reason that I fell in love with the variety and wanted to make more lovely cuddly british blues from that line...it's rare that one rat can make so much of an impact on my life 

Sleep well....I love you 

True Blue by John Williamson - used so poignantly for Steve Irwin's memorial - but also so fitting for my Delyth:

Hey True Blue, don't say you've gone
Say you've knocked off for a smoko
And you'll be back la-ater on
Hey True Blue, Hey True Blue

Give it to me straight, face to face
Are you really disappearing
Just another dy-ying race
Hey True Blue

True Blue, is it me and you
Is it Mum and Dad, is it a co-ockatoo
Is it standin' by your mate when he's in a fight
Or just Vegemi-ite
True-ue-ue Blue, I'm a-asking you

Hey True Blue, can you bear the load
Will you tie it up with wire
Just to keep the show on the road
Hey True Blue

Hey True Blue, now be Fair Dinkum
Is your heart still there
If they sell us out like sponge cake
Do you rea-eally care
Hey True Blue

True Blue, is it me and you
Is it Mum and Dad, is it a co-ockatoo
Is it standin' by your mate when she's in a fight
Or just Vegemi-ite
True-ue-ue Blue, I'm a-asking you...

True Blue, is it me and you
Is it Mum and Dad, is it a co-ockatoo
Is it standin' by your mate when he's in a fi-ight
Or just Vegemi-ite
True-ue-ue Blue, True-ue-ue Blue