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Just after midnight, one of my elderly cats ("Drella") passed away. She'd been getter progressively more frail for a couple of weeks, and had had difficulty walking for the past couple of days, though not seeming to be in any pain.
Yesterday evening, she managed to crawl to a favourite spot in the garden. By nightfall, she was too weak to make her own way indoors, so I carried her into the kitchen and set her down in a warm place. She died a couple of hours later. I've spent much of today digging a deep hole under her favourite cherry tree ... rather hard work given my disability, but - for the pleasure she gave me in life - I felt I wanted her final resting place to be somewhere appropriate.
The two cats have been a constant in my life for nearly eighteen years, seeing me through four jobs, four addresses, and two boyfriends. Drella's sister /littermate obviously misses her, and I keep turning round to look for Drella when my subconscious "cat count" registers only one moggy in the room.
I'm away for the weekend - visiting my Mum, then playing cricket with a bunch of schoolmates, to celebrate "35 years since leaving school". Hopefully, this will take my mind off things a bit. I hope that the remaining cat (who seems in robust good health at present) isn't too miserable while I'm away.
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
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marc
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Needs to get a life! |
Registered: March 2003
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Im so sorry.... huggs tight....
I dont know what else to say....
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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It is a very saddening experience. I have gone through it as well. So sorry.
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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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I wish, in so many ways, I could share that gentle experience. All but one of our creatures, and there have been many, have died through euthanasia. We have one left. She is a cat of 18 too. And we hope she will have a peaceful end at home as yours has. Sad as it is, it was a good end
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Each time I've lost one I've said "no more pets". But the sadness fades and I realize I miss the gentle company. It isn't long until I have another - even though I know I will eventually go through the same, sad experience.
Youth crisis hot-line 866-488-7386, 24 hr (U.S.A.)
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I'm really sorry to hear that, NW -- it's always terribly sad when much-loved pets die.
Best wishes,
David
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I'm only now just getting back into harness, NW, so I'm sorry I did not see your sad news earlier. Having buried two beloved pets - a desert cat and a dog - I know how you feel. The cat was haughty and stand-offish: we were permitted to live in her house; the dog was a delightful and loving companion. Both animals were a delight for children to grow up with.
Où sont les neiges d'antan?
J F R
The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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