Cali

2007 - 2024

Cali, the Calico from California, passed away peacefully on June 30, 2024, just one month shy of her 17th birthday.

Cali came into my life shortly after I graduated high school, when her grandma thought it would be a good idea for me to adopt a kitten from a litter that was dumped on a friend’s lawn in Antioch right before I headed off to college. There were several kittens to choose from but I could not pass up the most beautiful girl with unique orange, black, and white markings and big green-blue eyes staring up at me. We lived at home for Cali’s first year of life, where she enjoyed sleeping between her grandma’s legs at night and eating her grandpa’s plants, which resulted in her being nicknamed “trouble maker” and “terrorist.”

Cali and I then embarked on quite the adventure - she became a world traveler having lived in 2 states and 5 cities in 3 major metropolitan areas over the course of her life. We first moved down to Long Beach for college in December 2008, West Hollywood in June 2011, across the country to New York City in 2014, and back home to the Bay Area in October 2020. Cali could not have been happier to get out of her dark and cramped NYC apartment that faced a wall and into her more spacious, sun filled SF apartment where she spent her last 3 years sunbathing on her very own window bench with views of the Bay Bridge, trees, and birds. While she was named Cali due to her Calico coat, she was a true “Cali girl” in all aspects.

In addition to sunbathing, Cali enjoyed playing with her plethora of toys, posing for photos (even entering a modeling contest in 2022), joining mommy’s Zoom meetings, running back and forth in the hallway, knocking things off tables, watching SF Giants games (afterall, she is wearing their uniform), chit chatting, climbing on anything and everything from the refrigerator to the headboard, and following her mommy around.

While feisty, spicy, and fiercely independent, Cali was completely obsessed with me after having it be just the two of us most of her life. She would run to the door every time I came home, lay on my chest and nuzzle my face whenever I laid on my back, curl up and be my little spoon when I would lay on my side, jump on my lap when I work from home, and would sit and wait on the bath mat every time I took a shower.

Having been Cali’s mommy from ages 18-35, she was truly the love of my entire adult life. Rest in peace my sweet, beautiful, angel baby. I will love and miss you forever.