Posted on 10/29/2016 7:54:41 AM PDT by heterosupremacist
National Cat Day is observed each year on October 29th.
National Cat Day was founded to help the public recognize the number of cats that need to be rescued. The day also encourages cat lovers to celebrate the cats in their lives for the unconditional love and companionship that they bestow upon them.
HOW TO OBSERVE
Pay particular attention to your cat today. Adopt a new cat. Use #NationalCatDay to post on social media.
HISTORY
This day is sponsored by the Animal Miracle Foundation and was created by Pet Lifestyle Expert and Animal Welfare Advocate, Colleen Paige, in 2005. Since its inception, it has helped save the lives of more than one million cats.
You’re not alone.
Very sorry for your loss, my friend.
I felt badly that he didn’t really have another cat buddy in recent years. He got close to his grandmother while they were inside, but after she passed in 2013, the two we added weren’t close to him and were scared when his health declined that they would hiss and run from him. By comparison, when his grandmother declined, the day we took her to be put to sleep, he went over and licked her head. I think he was depressed after she was gone.
His mother, Baby Doll, even though she was only a year old when she vanished, was much like her son (they looked similar, she was an orange tabby with a white crest, though he was orange with lighter orange/white underbelly). I’m sorry we didn’t bring them all indoors way back when.
At least with Orangie and his grandmother, and some of the ones we brought in when they were sick with leukemia, we had time to say goodbye as opposed to the ones who vanished or were killed. I’m glad he got the extra 3 weeks past the date the vet wanted to euthanize him. It would’ve been wrong to end his life when he still had time to enjoy, especially getting to sit outside in the unusually warm weather with the birds and squirrels running around for him to watch.
Thank you.
Around here, EVERY day is Cat Day!
May TJ rest in peace. She has been gone 17 years and yet we still remember her. What a gentle soul and companion.
I am so sorry that your baby passed. I am sure Orangie had a great life and knew they were loved to little pieces by you. You have my deepest sympathy on your loss. I lost my Kefira back in March and still have crying jags when I look at her pictures on the wall, so I know how it feels.
Thank you. My condolences on your loss as well.
There’s a pathogen in cat poop/pee that causes homosexuality.
I think I PM’d you all with this information before a couple years ago.
We had one who went that way. He was old and weak, and one night he was lying in his favorite rocking chair; got up and drank from his water bowl; got back in his chair and simply died. Tilghman, one of the best cats ever.
RIP kitty.
True dat.
Correction acknowledged.
Peaceful way to go.
I’ll let you know if I start feeling FABULOUS.
“Oh yes!”
You’re a cat person. Did you see this thread ?
“There’s a pathogen in cat poop/pee that causes homosexuality.”
Never owned one, just dogs.
I have two cats. Both calicos around the same age. I’ve had both of them for years and they still don’t get along.
Are they siblings ?
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