My Daughters Cat Just Died.

12/28/2012 | Self

[Little Bill]

My Daughters cat just died. Expired from Natural causes as near as I can deturmine, I went to pet him and he was starting to stiffen up.

He was a good cat, black as Satan with a propencity to open closed doors. She is heart broken.

[who knows what evil?]

Declawing is a brutal procedure...if the cat gets loose, he/she has no way to defend itself...

Having said that; several of the no-kill shelters around Red Hampshire offer wonderful kittens and cats that just need a good home...many have been abandoned by owners who didn't realize that 'cute kitten' was a fifteen or twenty year commitment. Ask your local pet 'box store' if they have special adoption days where you can come in and visit with them. I know shelters in Concord and other areas have open houses that allow you to check out potential adoptees. Many of these cats have already been declawed, and are just looking for a warm home.

[who knows what evil?]

He has turned out to be the most alpha and destructive cat imaginable, but an absolute joy.

I smell money...my alpha Siamese and yours on an Animal Planet pay-per-view.

[bgill]

Yes to getting a shelter cat but you might want to reconsider a manx. That’s what we have now. Without a tail, they have no way to knock the tootsie rolls off into the box so they drop off right where you step. Those that don’t drop off dry up so you have to clip them off. Also, depending on where the vertebrea stops for the tail, they may have trouble with their hind legs. Ours has zero tail. She doesn’t seem to have any problems and walks fine but runs like a hopping rabbit so there is something not quite right.

[who knows what evil?]

Cats are some of the best people I know.

I'll bump the hell out of that!

[Silentgypsy]

So sorry that she lost her precious pet.

[ladyjane]

WOW.... Just wow!

That's what I said when I read your post.

Having a bad day or are you always like this?

[bgill]

Not saying our manx is a bad cat but they have some problems not associated with other breeds. She is a bad typist though. She lays on my hands when I’m on the computer and sometimes pushes keys or deletes entire posts. Oh, well, gotta love them.

[txrangerette]

Personal story.

I had never owned cats, only dogs, until I was nearly grown. About that time a neighbor’s cat began to visit. I was at home a lot during that time, and this cat’s owner, a young woman about my age, had moved away to pursue more education, and her mother was always gone at work, and her father and mother divorced and he moved out, so there was usually nobody at home there.

so the lonely cat took up with me. When she died about 3 yrs later at 15 yrs of age I was heartbroken. But it caused me to for the first time get my own cat, a shelter Russian Blue mix which my mom named “Katerina”. Katerina lived 19 yrs and two months. When she died, again I was heartbroken, in a different way.

While I was still mourning and in no shape to go shopping for another cat, a half-starved young one from the ally, that apparently hung out where a woman was feeding a whole bunch of homeless cats and they were all flocking, came onto my radar screen. Make a long story short, I eventually won her trust (she was semi-wild) and she’s been my cat for about 10 1/2 yrs. I named her “Kachina Rose” and she is totally black and very beautiful. Still lives outside though because that is all she ever knew before I adopted her and all she ever wants to know.

I’m sorry for your daughter’s loss.

May she find happiness with another...God bless.

[Carriage Hill]

I just lost my best little friend, Murphy (1995-2012), who died in my arms, on Sept 20:

[Fightin Whitey]

My male cats (one was born feral on the place but WANTED to move indoors, at least part-time, and so he has) still have their claws but they’ve both been neutered.

I went ahead and had it done too, just to get in the spirit of things, as per your advice.

Everybody is happy as can be though we had to get a really big litter box for me.

[Silentgypsy]

Having a bad day or are you always like this?

Pustules pop up on a thread like this. Maybe if you ignore the thing, it will go away....

[freekitty]

Sorry.

[combat_boots]

I’m sorry.

[publius911]

You neglected to give us a clue how old the cat was.
Death is as natural as birth, and a necessary lesson for adults and children alike.

[SERE_DOC]

I am always like this.

And it is a cat, not like it is a human being....

And you, like the initiator of the post would be well advised to look to what is important.

Braking news... Activism... not really thinking that this fits the bill.

[bluetick]

I have no doubt it would be a hit... at least in our collective households.

[Slings and Arrows]

Are you this cruel to people in public, or only when hiding behind a computer screen?

[Nowhere Man]

I’m sorry to hear that, my condolences, I lost one, Whitey, my half Snowshoe Cat, two months ago so I know what it is like. It is so hard. BTW, I also had a black cat who liked to open doors as well. I also had another that did that, a little, diluted calico with green eyes, she lived to be 19.

[Nowhere Man]

I know things are going to hell in a handbasket and so on, but when Whitey passed on, for a time, I did not give a tinker's dang about it. I have no problem with postings like these, I posted the day Whitey, my Snowshoe Cat, passed on to help me deal with it. Generals dying, that oaf we have in the White Hut and the fiscal cliff, we cannot control in our lives. At least with our pets and loved ones, we do have control although sometimes we do not. I think it was Cicero that said, "the average Roman does not care what the legions are doing in the faraway lands but he cares most about the pebble in his show." I guess we are like that, we care most about if we have a job or not, a home and our families.

Cut us some slack, there are times like these we need to reach out to one another when we experience losses like that and it does help to share with others with similar experiences, this is not only a political site, well at least we can discuss other things. I know the night before the election, we were discussing the metric system and video games, I kind of enjoyed the banter and small talk.

Plus our pets are special, if we give them food, water, shelter and medical care when they need it as well as love and attention, they will love you unconditionally. They don't care if you're rich or poor, black or white, fat or thin and so on, if you treat them well, they will be a loyal friend to you.

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

I’m really sorry to hear this. It’s really hard to lose a beloved pet. FWIW, it sounds like at least he died quickly, probably with no pain. We have gone through the stress and turmoil of several geriatric cats with cancer lately ... sigh. So at least you were all spared that.

I love black cats, have had several and I think they tend to have really interesting personalities. When your daughter is ready for another cat, it might be good to get another black one. The shelters have a very hard time adopting out black cats because so many people don’t want them. If you can save a black one from a life in a shelter or from euthanasia, that would be a good deed.