Please don't take this a callous. I see that you care for you pet a great deal, as do many people. I merely offer this - perhaps at the wrong time and in the wrong thread - to share with you our view.
While we like the pets that we have (like you, cats) we would never become so attached to them that we would think of praying over them. If they get seriously ill, we put them down rather than pay a large vet bill.
Before you get mad at me, our view is that if we are going to spend hundreds (or thousands as incredibly some people do), we will take that money and help a fellow human being in need.
Again, I don't mean any ill will towards you and do hope that you pet will continue to give you joy. And if it passes on, that you will be comforted by all the years you have been together.
God Bless the humans.
Nonsense.
Freedumb2003, my prayers, and those of many Freepers are with you and your sweet kitty.
Our pets are a little piece of God's creation that we are personally assigned to care for. If He knows each sparrow that falls, he knows our kitties, too. We paid a lot of money to keep our eldery cat alive for just one more year. It was a happy year and she did well right up to the end. We don't regret a dime we spent for it.
Well, it costs $500 a year for Musica's meds and $1200 a year and about $300 extra every other year for follow-ups for vet visits and she has been on that regime for 10 years so I figure we are looking at around $15,000-$20,000 over that period.
Fortunately, I make a pretty good living and get to do what I want with my money (or what is left after Uncle Sam takes his part). She is worth every penny.
But you do remind me for folks on the thread -- get health insurance for your pet when it is young. It is inexpensive and can save a bundle later.
Jesus commanded us to pray! He also said that the Father would answer prayers! Prayer is a means through which God has chosen to operate. Since Jesus rose from the dead, proving that He is God the Son, surely He would know how we should pray and for what!
We are supposed to pray, but all prayers are to be within the boundaries of "God's will." We pray, but we also trust God's wisdom if He decides a different answer than we wish.
He also says to keep praying. He also says that we don't have because we don't ask.
We actually can have access to God through Jesus Christ. While a "cat" may seem trivial, just an animal, God also has created them, and commands the humans to have stewardship over the earth, including care of the animals.
We do not worship the creature over the Creator, but we also don't downgrade God by merely picking and choosing which rules we want to follow. He likes seeing our trust in Him, that we love and serve Him enough to take even our tiniest needs to him. He cares EVEN for the birds,(so also the cats!), and He also loves US, and we can trust Him with all of our lives, too!