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My cat is dead.

 
 
Tryphena Absent
12:37 / 25.11.02
On Saturday my mum had my cat put down. She had a tumour on her chin and she was starting to choke when she tried to eat. They couldn't cut the tumour away because her jaw would have had to come off too. I'm a little bit angry because they didn't tell me that they were going to do it and I rang my parents on Sunday. They didn't even call me.

Bessie was thirteen, she belonged to the next door neighbour but moved in with us when she was about two years old. She climbed trees like a squirrel and abused the mice in the garden, she was perfectly feral, a very fidgety cat. When we moved from Finchley to Hertfordshire she came with us instead of going with the neighbours. She had four kittens, two died before she did, the other two are living happily with some people my mum knows. Now there is only one pet left in my house out of the millions that once existed, I hope George lives forever.
 
 
illmatic
14:08 / 25.11.02
Hey Janina - sorry to hear it.
 
 
telyn
15:14 / 25.11.02
I hope George lives forever too.
oh hun.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
15:14 / 25.11.02
It's horrible when animals die. Virtual huggles going up to cat heaven from me.
 
 
grant
15:31 / 25.11.02
Something similarly awful happened with my dog a couple years ago. I'm still getting over it. Not the death as much as the way my parents (one parent in particular) dealt with it. Hmph.
 
 
The Strobe
17:28 / 25.11.02
Really sorry, dear.
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
18:18 / 25.11.02
They say that cats have nine lives and often this is interpreted to explain their ability to land on their feet. This is not enitirely true, it actually refers to their ability to reincarnate, much like Doctor Who.

In the mean time, good vibey best wishes.
 
 
Badbh Catha
19:07 / 25.11.02
Condolences from a fellow friend of felines.

And I so sympathize with you when it comes to your parents not telling you. I've been there.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
20:38 / 25.11.02
Sorry to hear that. My cat died about a year ago - drowned while I was out of the country - so I know what it's like to have no real say in things.

Sigh. Hugs for you.
 
 
rizla mission
11:57 / 26.11.02
aaagh, I usually try not to get too emotional about animals, but it did really bring me down when one of the family cats died last year..

It's really horrible when animals die, even when they're animals you don't know very well or like very much .. something about the way they don't understand what's wrong with them or why they're in horible pain and can't come to terms with the fact that they're gonna die..
 
 
mixmage
15:11 / 26.11.02
my condolences.

I also lost my feline companion a couple of months back... he was the last of his little gang of friends to be taken by the speeding motorists that use our road as a shortcut.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
16:04 / 26.11.02
Thanks everyone.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
16:16 / 26.11.02
I'm sorry. My old kitty had to be put down a year or so ago, and it was very sad (even though she was about 20). Maybe Patty and Bessie can hook up now and go for girl's nights out in the Great Beyond.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
17:39 / 26.11.02
Alas poor Bessie! But I hear Heaven is brimming with suicidal mice. She'll be whipping my wussy pussies Big Joe, Augustus and little Boris, into shape up there.
 
 
bjacques
20:44 / 26.11.02
My condolences too. I lost a cat to jaw cancer too, some years ago. I had to take her myself to be put down. Here's to Bessie and other absent friends in Cat Valhalla (at the foot of the big Rock Candy Mountain, I think).
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
20:56 / 26.11.02
Hey hon, sorry to hear this, hope you're not feeling too grim.
 
  
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