16/10/2026
💔🐾 **HOPPY | 30.06.2021 – 16.10.2026** 🐾💔
**How do you say goodbye to someone you never wanted to let go of?**
I've started writing this so many times, and each time the tears come and the words disappear.
I never imagined having to write this. Not today. Not now. Not ever.
Yesterday, my beautiful Hoppy grew her angel wings. 💔
My girl. My beautiful, precious, special girl.
Hoppy wasn't just another cat. She was my inspiration, my reason, and the little soul behind Hoppys Place Rescue.
She was the beginning of something so much bigger than either of us.
A little girl who had already faced so many challenges in life. Deaf, neurologically impaired and missing a leg, but none of that ever stopped her from being Hoppy.
She didn't know she was different. She didn't know she was special. She just knew she was loved.
And my goodness, was she loved.
Because of Hoppy, a rescue was born. Because of Hoppy, hundreds of cats and kittens have been given another chance at life.
Her little pawprints are on everything we do.
But today, I don't want to be strong. I don't want to find a positive in this. I don't want to hear that time will make it easier.
**I just want my girl back.**
I want one more cuddle. One more look into those beautiful eyes. One more day. One more chance to tell her how much she means to me.
I wasn't ready, Hoppy. I don't think I ever would have been.
You were never supposed to leave me this soon.
To everyone who has followed Hoppy's journey, loved her, cheered her on and supported the rescue that carries her name, I wanted you to know that our beautiful girl is gone.
Please forgive me if I cannot answer messages or talk about her just yet. My heart is shattered.
Hoppys Place will continue, because that is her legacy. Every little life we save will carry a piece of her story.
But there will never, ever be another Hoppy.
**Rest easy, my beautiful girl.**
30 June 2021 – 16 October 2026
You were my once-in-a-lifetime little girl.
Never to be forgotten. Always in my heart.
**I love you, Hoppy. Yesterday, today, tomorrow and forever.** 🌈🐾💔
