That’s a beautiful cat-buddy. I’m sorry for Rush’s loss, been through that with a special animal bud. It’s been decades, and I still miss him.
That reminds me of the song Mr. Bojangles: “...dog up and died; after twenty years he still grieves...”
Several years ago we had two Labs which we had to have put down within less then a year of each other. The last one was a beautiful extremely large gentle dog that had gone blind several years before we had to have him put down. He did well, his blindness didn’t keep him from wandering the fenced in yard or going for walks, though once we knew he was blind we always kept him on the leash and looked out for the telephone poles for him to walk around and not into. And the one time he found his way out of the yard he avoided being hit by a car that honked a horn at him, I looked out, wondered whose dog it was, since mine was locked in the fenced in yard. And then he walked directly into my parked car nose first, poor thing and I ran outside and rescued him back to his safe yard and added a rope tie to the fence gate as an extra precaution. Anyway, we had one dog put down and then this one, who loved to sleep on his back leaning against whole length of the sofa, he was that long, this is where he would sleep away the day and snore and snore and snore. I remember many times sitting at the computer desk with my back to him and think wow can that dog snore. Well after he was put down, off and on for several weeks or more while sitting at the computer desk I would become aware of the sounds around me, the cars going by, birds singing outside and wait a minute the dog is snoring... but both dogs are gone. I would sit there a moment and listen then turn around and say “Okay, pup, you can go home to heaven now.” And the snoring would stop. I wasn’t the only family member to experience this. And I could see it might be a trick of the unconscious, but the snoring continued for several minutes after any of us became conscious of it and didn’t stop until we told him he could move on.
Anyone else have this type of experience after a pet has died?