Had to say goodbye to my cat today

• Iljimae wrote on 2014-08-01 23:06
  He was fine two weeks ago. The symptoms showed suddenly and his health deteriorated rapidly. Kidney failure and other health complications became too much.
  
  I'm twenty-one now, but I got him when I was eleven. The day I got him he sat on my lap for hours and his ears were too big for his head. He was there for all the awkward teenage years, and was there through all the drastic changes that came over the years.
  
  I miss you already my lettuce eating bunny cat.
  
  

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• Bunny wrote on 2014-08-01 23:08
  [FONT="Arial"]Oh no.. ;__;
  
  Aww, I'm so sorry..
  
  I cried for a really long time when I had to give my bunny away. The feels.[/FONT]
• Osayidan wrote on 2014-08-01 23:19
  I know how that feels. Had to put down my cat when I was 23, we got him when I was 5. That was like loosing a brother or something.
  The whole thing kind of turned me off to ever having anymore pets.
• M wrote on 2014-08-01 23:19
  This is a tragedy. I deeply dread the day that my two kitties leave this world :( life can be unfair sometimes. That being said, at least it seems your kitty lived a pretty long life and brought you much joy.
  
  [SPOILER="sad stories"]
  I've lost a couple of my cats, but I keep going on having pets despite each one causing heartache and an empty hole in my soul.
  
  I had one cat, named Monster(he was a little demon), that had been in a fight with a dog when he was probably 2 or 3 years old (I was a little kid at the time), he was torn to shreds pretty much but still managed to drag himself home only to die on our front porch before we were even awake.
  
  We had a cat named "Messy Kitty" that loved to play with toilet paper anytime she could get some. I raised her from a kitten but at only 8 years old she died from some sort of feline AIDS equivalent disease (we are too poor to do extensive tests or research, she had to be put down unfortunately). She was an inside and outside the house cat, since then I only have kept my cats inside. Whatever she contracted was likely from the strays out in the world.
  
  The last cat I had die was only a kitten named Precious (she was this pure white little bundle of joy), she was only a few months old and was pretty ill with some disease or another, she had a seizure one day and died in my arms :(
  
  I have two cats now, one is about 6 years old and the other is probably about a year and a half. I hope they live long healthy lives, hopefully I'll be making big bucks by the end of their life spans so I can give them pain free elder years.
  
  [SPOILER="My cats~"]
  My cat Mickey (6 yrs old)
  

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  My other cat, Aerie
  

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  [/SPOILER][/SPOILER]
• Osayidan wrote on 2014-08-01 23:41
  Aerie looks so damned lazy, doing a good job at being a cat.
• Hanna wrote on 2014-08-01 23:56
  I've worked with a lot of cats in my years of fostering strays, sometimes ones that were severely sick or injured and would need to be put down. It's always been hard to me to make that final vet visit, even if I just found that cat and I can never really become numb to it. After all of the cats that have come in and out of my life I have never been closer to my cat Spook.
  (she's the black one)
  

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  I cannot imagine what the day will be like when I finally lose her, I wish it would never come but I know it will. A lot of people refuse to get pets because they don't want to deal with the heartache when they die, but the love they give you makes it worth it.
  
  I'm sorry you lost your buddy.
• Splatulated wrote on 2014-08-02 00:00
  i will forever miss my Cromwell known him since i was old enough to start remembering stuff
  
  came home from school and was wait for him to come out of his sleeping place when he didnt i checked and he was in a large puddle of blood that he had been peeing and few hours later we went to a vet and said goodbye and i miss him forever :T_T: my nightmare is of those last few hours with him and thinking of it makes me cry
• Taycat wrote on 2014-08-02 01:17
  i know how you feel
  i too had a cat die recently, very suddenly, and we couldn't even take him to get put down
  so the poor baby had to suffer two days...he eventually went one morning...
  and then we buried him with one of his toys
  he was just a few years old, i miss him
• kaozking wrote on 2014-08-02 02:00
  Awww that sucks and it's always heart breaking to have to put down something that's equivalent to another sibling. I've pretty much detached myself to pets to not get hurt as much but at the same time I can't help but give them some affection.
  
  [SPOILER="Sad story"]One day, my family and I had walked outside to find one of our cats had been mauled by a dog and left on our driveway. We couldn't help but be mortified by what we saw and we can't even believe something like that had even happened in our neighborhood. BEFORE YOU ALL GO WHY WAS THE CAT OUTSIDE, most of the cats we have love the feeling of freedom and love to roam about and when they come to eat we keep them in.[/SPOILER]
• Hanna wrote on 2014-08-02 02:04

  Quote from kaozking;1236586:

  Awww that sucks and it's always heart breaking to have to put down something that's equivalent to another sibling. I've pretty much detached myself to pets to not get hurt as much but at the same time I can't help but give them some affection.
  
  [SPOILER="Sad story"]One day, my family and I had walked outside to find one of our cats had been mauled by a dog and left on our driveway. We couldn't help but be mortified by what we saw and we can't even believe something like that had even happened in our neighborhood. BEFORE YOU ALL GO WHY WAS THE CAT OUTSIDE, most of the cats we have love the feeling of freedom and love to roam about and when they come to eat we keep them in.[/SPOILER]

  
  Cats should never be let outside, your situation is just one of the many reasons why
  They're exposed to all sorts of dangerous situations, illness, and reek havoc on the local wildlife
  Not blaming you or yelling at you because most people don't realize how dangerous the outdoors is for them, they usually only live a fraction of their potential life span outside.
  
  Average life span of outdoor cat: 3 years
  Average life span of indoor cat: 14 years
  
  
  it's not uncommon for indoor cats to live to be 20+ years
• Splatulated wrote on 2014-08-02 02:15

  Quote from Hanna;1236588:

  Cats should never be let outside, your situation is just one of the many reasons why
  They're exposed to all sorts of dangerous situations, illness, and reek havoc on the local wildlife
  Not blaming you or yelling at you because most people don't realize how dangerous the outdoors is for them, they usually only live a fraction of their potential life span outside.
  
  Average life span of outdoor cat: 3 years
  Average life span of indoor cat: 14 years
  
  
  it's not uncommon for indoor cats to live to be 20+ years

  
  
  what about just in a backyard for an hour or two with high fences for no other cats to get in or out?
• kaozking wrote on 2014-08-02 02:15

  Quote from Hanna;1236588:

  Cats should never be let outside, your situation is just one of the many reasons why
  They're exposed to all sorts of dangerous situations, illness, and reek havoc on the local wildlife
  Not blaming you or yelling at you because most people don't realize how dangerous the outdoors is for them, they usually only live a fraction of their potential life span outside.
  
  Average life span of outdoor cat: 3 years
  Average life span of indoor cat: 14 years
  
  
  it's not uncommon for indoor cats to live to be 20+ years

  
  
  Well they werent my cats to really decide what to with in the beginning, they were my moms cats and thats how she mainly had them and she's had about 3 cats that have lived for 7 years,played outside and slept inside.
  
  I've already decided that if i have pets they are going to be inside pets lol.
• Hanna wrote on 2014-08-02 02:18

  Quote from Splatulated;1236592:

  what about just in a backyard for an hour or two with high fences for no other cats to get in or out?

  
  
  Outdoor play should always be supervised
  

  Quote from kaozking;1236593:

  Well they werent my cats to really decide what to with in the beginning, they were my moms cats and thats how she mainly had them and she's had about 3 cats that have lived for 7 years,played outside and slept inside.
  
  I've already decided that if i have pets they are going to be inside pets lol.

  
  
  Yeah my parents were did the same, I'm glad you've come to that decision, though.
• Splatulated wrote on 2014-08-02 02:32

  Quote from Hanna;1236595:

  Outdoor play should always be supervised
  
  
  Yeah my parents were did the same, I'm glad you've come to that decision, though.

  
  
  is supervised
• Aubog007 wrote on 2014-08-02 02:39
  Yep. That's what happened with my cat. Got him before i could even remember, he got too stressed out from our other cat due to household dynamics changing. His age when we put him down? A whopping twenty three three years old. I was twenty four. That cat WAS a part of my life longer than my own mother was.
  
  Oh. Hanna. My cat was an outdoor cat for 5 years unsupervised, just opened the door and brought them back in when it was night. Year 5 it was skunked. Other cat brought him back to the house. We starting supervising a little bit when we moved, when it was 20, it was still catching rodents.
  
  Great, now i miss my damn cats. And we currently let our other cat out everyday for the past 5 years out unsupervised. And he's nearing his 15 year birthday.