Remembering pets after owners die

Waterbury Republican-American ^ | January 25, 2009 | Josh Shaffer

[kalee]

Oh, my I must ask, (trembling in fear at the answer)....who gets the Rumbug? Last time he was here for an extended visit he almost ate my house!

And do not mention my dear departed duddles. The thought of them makes me very sad. Poor things.

[Cailleach]

Are you my next door neighbor? lol

[Cailleach]

hahaha! You’d better say prayers every night...because you and Papa would get a ready made family. You will have to make special arrangements in your home for Princess Bella...she doesn’t like other cats. Or dogs. Or humans. She does however like birds, fish and squirrels. She thinks that all would be a welcome addition to her belly.

[devane617]

I want to provide a service where I take cats of deceased people. I will provide special service like the owner wants. How do I get started? I will keep the cat(s) until I find a new owner per the instructions from the deceased owner.

[kalee]

And you see humans following their pets around in the park, actually picking up the pet’s feces. That, my friends, is a sad commentary...when a human willingly cleans up the feces of a “pet.” I imagine you'd not be too happy if you stepped in all that uncollected poo. As for someone harming my pets, some sicko mutilated my small flock of ducks last Oct by cutting the bills off of all of them. Do I want to kill the sicko? No, but I would love to have him/her/them arrested and charged with animal cruelty.

[kalee]

I will step up my prayers for you and your hubby’s continued good health. :)

[Titan Magroyne]

Maybe I should give all future pets apparently human namesJust don't try that on your form 1040.Y'say the IRS takes a dim view of the practice?

Uh-oh.

[Titan Magroyne]

My cat will be happy that there’s no-one to keep her off the kitchen counters or stop her rolling the bathroom in TP.

The dogs will delight in being allowed to stalk her, so my undiscovered corpse will go uneaten for a little longer than on average.

[Turret Gunner A20]

paganism.......placing animals superior to mankind......

Then I'm part pagan --- the animals I have known are indeed superior to a goodly percentage of the people I have run across in my 85 years.

[Turret Gunner A20]

It’s stories like this that confirm my suspicions that pet owners are emotional cripples unable to tolerate their own company. So they get a pet and promptly begin to anthropomorphize it, attributing to it human qualities that exist in no animal. And when people post things like “I’ll kill anyone that messes with one of pets,” it shows how deranged pet owners are. Is there anyting more pathetic that seeing an adult making “baby talk” to a dog or cat. It turns my stomach. And you see humans following their pets around in the park, actually picking up the pet’s feces. That, my friends, is a sad commentary...when a human willingly cleans up the feces of a “pet.” Also, pet owners are irresponsible. They care nothing for how much the barking of their dogs disturbs the neighbors. If I heard on the news tonight that some strange virus had killed every dog and cat on the planet, I would do to sleep with a smile on my face.

I truly feel sorry for you. You need help.

[Slings and Arrows]

We all have different ways of coping with grief.

[Titan Magroyne]

LOL!

True.

[steve-b]

You, ‘my friend’, are one miserable unhappy person.

On the contrary. I'm sure he's thrilled every time he goes back to his homies on DU and posts a link to the latest "proof" of "how hateful right-wingers are".

I suppose it is a bummer sometimes when he loses the URL to what he just planted on these forums and can't remember how to find it again.

[Fawn]

AMEN!!

[Fawn]

LOL....I know one will be sitting on top of me staring ..one will bt hitting my face with her paw and the other will be flinging herself against me...