Janey
Posted on 09/23/2008 11:34:23 AM PDT by franksolich
I've been there and know how it feels.
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I’m so sorry...you certainly did all you could do.....it’s so hard to lose them I know.....I dread it...but I wouldn’t live without them. They are like you say ‘all special’....
I wanted nothing to do with the cat. I am a dog person and ignored the kitten. So the kitten adopted me. It took to sleeping on my elbow at night tucked under my chin. I was sleeping so I didn't know this until it became a sort of habit. The cat is a house cat and doesn't go outside.
The cat's name is Patches because of it's different colored coat. When I come home from shift work I crawl into bed and before I am asleep I will feel the cat jump on the bed from wherever it was and walk around my pillow. It will bump it's head against my face and force me to pet it. Then it will knead my bicep with it's declawed front paws before settling in under my chin. It's spot for eleven years now. I can't get to sleep anymore until she finds her spot.
I'm not a cat person.
I tell people that.
You have my deepest sympathy for the loss of your friend.
Our frank has had a loss!
Frank:
May the promises of God provide you solace in your time of grief.
Janey
sorry for your loss.
And God bless you for touching that poor, dying child.
My daughter's cat died the day before her 9th birthday and she still grieves the loss.
We did get a new cat, his name is Fat Mike.
Owl_Eagle
There are people who are surrounded by bigots
and know it is wrong, but are afraid to be vocal against it.
These people are going to pull the lever for Obama
and they are not being polled.
angee_is_mad, DUmmy
Ping
“...he was the one cat whose trust I did not have to earn; his trust in me existed from the hour of his birth, and was a Gift from God.”
And you never betrayed that trust for a moment...Floyd was lucky to have known you.
And the image you have of sick Floyd? That’s not the “permanent” Floyd. That was Floyd for such a sort time, really. Try to think of the real, permanent Floyd. A beautiful gray & white kitty, stretched out on a tree limb, looking at you with all that trust in his eyes.
In general, I would regard a cat going to the beyond as a good thing.
I have little use for a creature that comes to me only when it needs something.
But it is obvious from your post that you had found a true friend and companion, and had that connection that I have found in my life most often with dogs, on occasion with women, but never for a cat.
I applaud your special sense. And it must have been a very special cat indeed.
We collect cats I think. We are always replacing one. When a cat dies, the kids start hunting for another one. I consider sadness to be luxury I can’t afford when it comes to cats because there are so many of them looking for a home.
I like cats because they generally don’t tear stuff up like a dog. They just kill stuff and leave it in the driveway for me to run over.
I’m so sorry for your loss. They wrap their little paws right around your heart, and when they go, their claws rip out a great big chunk.
So sorry about your kitty, We had to make a difficult decision about our own special friend this morning and are grieving her loss this evening.
Ping
He was very lucky to have lived his life with you.
Beautiful words.I still get misty eyed thinking of our
three “boys” that passed away.
From one poster who had to put down one of her four cats today to another poster who lost his cat, my sincere condolences. ((((Hugs)))) =^..^=
My orange big boy cat was named Pumpkin. =^..^=
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