Frosty — 1996-2009

Frosty "The Man" Seybert

Frosty “The Man” Seybert went to sleep on the morning of March 21, 2009 and didn’t wake up. He had been suffering from some illnesses and was miserable, so his Papa fought back a flood of tears and took him to the vet so they could help him sleep.

Frosty came to live with the Seyberts in 1996 when his Papa saw a bunch of kittens in the bushes outside and told Sissy it was OK to pick one for a pet. Frosty wasn’t her first choice but she put down the other one when he made lots of noise and kept crawling right toward her. Sissy and Momma thought Frosty was a gray kitty until they took him to the vet and all the fleas got washed out. He came home and met his older brother William Robert Seybert and quickly settled in as the baby cat in the family.

Relaxing on Sissy's Popason Chair

He learned a lot of tricks. Sitting in the window was perhaps one of his best. Licking himself clean was an obsession and he told his Mom once that he liked to take “14 baths a day.” Every Christmas he would get SO excited because Papa would go down into the garage and get Frosty’s “bush” and stand it up in the living room. He loved his bush and as soon as the branches started coming out he would lay down under it and smile. On his first Christmas (when he still had claws) Papa was surprised one morning when came in and found a little white head sticking out, way up at the top of the tree. (It wasn’t long after that Frosty became clawless).

He was a great jumper and had the most adorable face you could imagine. When William Robert (Billy Bob) went to sleep and didn’t wake up in 2001 Frosty became an only cat – just like his Sissy was an only child – until Sissy and Momma went to the pound and brought home Skooter. At first Frosty was very mean to Skooter but they became good friends and until just a few months ago had some amazing wrestling matches in the living room.

Frosty and Skooter

When Sissy went away to college Frosty and Papa became good friends and developed quite a bond. They would actually carry on lengthy conversations when no one else was around. Frosty loved people and loved to sit for hours next to his Pop while he wrote books and other things on the computer (Pop wrote, Frosty sat). One year when Pop was too busy, Frosty volunteered to write the family Christmas letter, and he did a darn fine job for having no opposable thumbs.

Momma, Sissy and Pop are going to miss their little white friend but they just couldn’t watch him suffer any longer.