our cat, Curio, said good-bye and dug her way under the soil. or, in other words, went to sleep. died. Either one is valid.
we dug her a snug hole by one of our saplings. The girls renamed that young tree 'The Curio Tree' in honor of our one-year-old purring friend. It was a sad moment for all of us, and even Mom and Dad started to cry.
We've mostly gotten over it now, but about a week ago I gave myself to watching films of our kitten, not even one in cat years (the equivalent of one human month.) See The Double Stitch. We hope to get another kitten in about a year. So-long, my faithful feline friend!