Phantom Felines And Other Ghostly Animals - Gerina Dunwich 2006

Tigger
Phantom Felines

by Laura Maxwell

Our cat, Tigger, disappeared sometime ago. My husband and I thought nothing of it until after a couple of days because he was an outside cat. We went out looking for him and he would not come to my call or anything, which was not like him.

It wasn’t until later when I went out looking for him again that I found him. I called to him and went to pick him up, but he disappeared. That’s when I knew he was dead.

Every now and then when I’m looking for something I still hear him meow like he’s trying to get my attention. I even feel him now and then rub himself against my leg when my mind is wandering. At night I often feel a cat sleeping on me or at my feet. Or I hear purring. I get up and look because we don’t allow cats in our room because of our new baby. And there is nothing there.

Also, in the morning my husband will go to the car and see cat paw prints. We know they’re Tigger’s because he had a very distinct paw pattern and a cut on his back leg paw, and we saw this in one of the paw prints.

Now and then we see my cat Athena playing with something that’s not there. We believe it’s Tigger because he was the only cat she would play with. And sometimes we see cat eyes staring at us at night outside and when we go to see what it is, there’s nothing there.

Whenever we see something like a cat or hear a cat we know we’re safe because Tigger always thought of himself as a guard cat.