Adoptee #: 10104
Name: Etoile
Sex: Female
Birthday: 2016-01-01
Status: Crossed the Rainbow Bridge
Location: FurryTales Foster
Date departed: 2025-03-21
La belle Étoile! Just as beautiful as her name suggests!
Sadly, she passed away after just a few days in care. Her foster shared these beautiful words in her memory:
“My sweet Étoile 💔.
As some already know, Étoile passed away unexpectedly late Friday night, after spending only ~4 nights with me. Although she was not with me for long, I think we all know how quickly we can get attached to our foster babies.
Étoile was roughly 8-10 years old and came to Furry Tales from Outaouais. When I picked her up, she was frightened and hiding in the back of her carrier, and would not even look at me the whole ride home.
When we got home, she did not take long to start showing her affectionate, loving self. She had not been eating or drinking much, but after what was possibly her first taste of a Churu treat, things started to look up. It was bit of an adventure to figure out what she liked to eat. We tried Friskies, Hill’s, Fancy Feast, Weruva….and she finally settled on Tiki Cat—and who can blame her? I would’ve eaten it myself had I not known it was cat food!
Étoile loved head and chin rubs, gentle brushing, and curling up next to me, or sometimes even in my lap. She would roll onto her side for pets, and purr her heart out.
Reflecting back on the time she spent with me, she might have been experiencing some discomfort—she was sensitive to touch around certain areas, and had some trouble with dry food and hard treats. She had also been through many changes in the past week. Despite this, she was a happy girl who loved wand toys, a cozy bed, catnip kickers and mice, and would gleefully leave them for me in her food or water dish. I think she was brewing catnip tea.
I am devastated that she is no longer with us, and even more devastated knowing that I was not able to make her last moments more comfortable or less scary for her. I only hope that if she was suffering, that she is no longer; and I am so grateful for the few days that I got to spend with her ❤️.
I am also extremely grateful for the amazing community of volunteers, fosters, coordinators, and friends that complete FTCR, and for the amazing level of support and compassion that I’ve received from the wonderful foster team since Friday night. I genuinely can’t express how grateful and how sorry I am 😞.
I haven’t been able to bring myself to tidy up her room yet, but I do have 6 cans of Étoile’s leftover food that she enjoyed very much, and are just sitting on my counter. I am hoping that it might be of use to another foster, as I know that it will otherwise continue to sit on my counter indefinitely. Photo is the last one in the post.
I hope Étoile has everything that she couldn’t have in this life, across the rainbow bridge 🌈🩷👼.”