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sbalneav
Jan 5, 2013, 1:51:49 PM1/5/13
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Had to put my cat down this morning; he had cancer, and was beginning to become
a bit too umcomfortable. He had pretty much stopped eating. I adopted him as
an adult cat; he was 6 years old, and had been a ward of the Humane Society for
11 months and 2 weeks when I found him. He got an extra 10 1/2 years he
wouldn't have had, had I gone two weeks later. He was the kindest, gentlest,
most noble creature I have ever had the honour to share a life with, and I miss
him horribly already, even though it's only been a few hours.
Goodbye, old friend.
--
__ _ | What greater gift than the love of a cat.
(_ |_) | -- Charles Dickens
__)|_) |
a bit too umcomfortable. He had pretty much stopped eating. I adopted him as
an adult cat; he was 6 years old, and had been a ward of the Humane Society for
11 months and 2 weeks when I found him. He got an extra 10 1/2 years he
wouldn't have had, had I gone two weeks later. He was the kindest, gentlest,
most noble creature I have ever had the honour to share a life with, and I miss
him horribly already, even though it's only been a few hours.
Goodbye, old friend.
--
__ _ | What greater gift than the love of a cat.
(_ |_) | -- Charles Dickens
__)|_) |
Christopher A. Lee
Jan 5, 2013, 2:12:14 PM1/5/13
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On Sat, 5 Jan 2013 18:51:49 +0000 (UTC), sbalneav
<sbal...@alburg.net> wrote:
>Had to put my cat down this morning; he had cancer, and was beginning to become
>a bit too umcomfortable. He had pretty much stopped eating. I adopted him as
>an adult cat; he was 6 years old, and had been a ward of the Humane Society for
>11 months and 2 weeks when I found him. He got an extra 10 1/2 years he
>wouldn't have had, had I gone two weeks later. He was the kindest, gentlest,
>most noble creature I have ever had the honour to share a life with, and I miss
>him horribly already, even though it's only been a few hours.
>
>Goodbye, old friend.
It hurts, doesn't it?
<sbal...@alburg.net> wrote:
>Had to put my cat down this morning; he had cancer, and was beginning to become
>a bit too umcomfortable. He had pretty much stopped eating. I adopted him as
>an adult cat; he was 6 years old, and had been a ward of the Humane Society for
>11 months and 2 weeks when I found him. He got an extra 10 1/2 years he
>wouldn't have had, had I gone two weeks later. He was the kindest, gentlest,
>most noble creature I have ever had the honour to share a life with, and I miss
>him horribly already, even though it's only been a few hours.
>
>Goodbye, old friend.
Cats and dogs are part of the family.
My Sammy came from England to California with me in 1989, and lived to
be nineteen and a half.
raven1
Jan 5, 2013, 2:43:43 PM1/5/13
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>Had to put my cat down this morning; he had cancer, and was beginning to become
>a bit too umcomfortable. He had pretty much stopped eating. I adopted him as
>an adult cat; he was 6 years old, and had been a ward of the Humane Society for
>11 months and 2 weeks when I found him. He got an extra 10 1/2 years he
>wouldn't have had, had I gone two weeks later. He was the kindest, gentlest,
>most noble creature I have ever had the honour to share a life with, and I miss
>him horribly already, even though it's only been a few hours.
>
>Goodbye, old friend.
Very sorry for your loss.
>a bit too umcomfortable. He had pretty much stopped eating. I adopted him as
>an adult cat; he was 6 years old, and had been a ward of the Humane Society for
>11 months and 2 weeks when I found him. He got an extra 10 1/2 years he
>wouldn't have had, had I gone two weeks later. He was the kindest, gentlest,
>most noble creature I have ever had the honour to share a life with, and I miss
>him horribly already, even though it's only been a few hours.
>
>Goodbye, old friend.
---
raven1
aa # 1096
EAC Vice President (President in charge of vice)
BAAWA Knight
Jeanne Douglas
Jan 6, 2013, 3:59:39 AM1/6/13
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In article <kc9so3$2no$1...@dont-email.me>, sbalneav <sbal...@alburg.net>
wrote:
> Had to put my cat down this morning; he had cancer, and was beginning to
> become
> a bit too umcomfortable. He had pretty much stopped eating. I adopted him as
> an adult cat; he was 6 years old, and had been a ward of the Humane Society
> for
> 11 months and 2 weeks when I found him. He got an extra 10 1/2 years he
> wouldn't have had, had I gone two weeks later. He was the kindest, gentlest,
> most noble creature I have ever had the honour to share a life with, and I
> miss
> him horribly already, even though it's only been a few hours.
>
> Goodbye, old friend.
So sorry for you loss.
Bye bye kitty.
--
JD
"Osama Bin Laden is dead and GM is alive."--VP Joseph Biden
wrote:
> Had to put my cat down this morning; he had cancer, and was beginning to
> become
> a bit too umcomfortable. He had pretty much stopped eating. I adopted him as
> an adult cat; he was 6 years old, and had been a ward of the Humane Society
> for
> 11 months and 2 weeks when I found him. He got an extra 10 1/2 years he
> wouldn't have had, had I gone two weeks later. He was the kindest, gentlest,
> most noble creature I have ever had the honour to share a life with, and I
> miss
> him horribly already, even though it's only been a few hours.
>
> Goodbye, old friend.
Bye bye kitty.
--
JD
"Osama Bin Laden is dead and GM is alive."--VP Joseph Biden
Pat Kiewicz
Jan 7, 2013, 8:19:09 AM1/7/13
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sbalneav said:
>
>
>Had to put my cat down this morning; he had cancer, and was beginning to
>become
>a bit too umcomfortable. He had pretty much stopped eating. I adopted him as
>an adult cat; he was 6 years old, and had been a ward of the Humane Society for
>11 months and 2 weeks when I found him. He got an extra 10 1/2 years he
>wouldn't have had, had I gone two weeks later. He was the kindest, gentlest,
>most noble creature I have ever had the honour to share a life with, and I miss
>him horribly already, even though it's only been a few hours.
>
>Goodbye, old friend.
>
My condolences. You gave him a good life and an easy leaving.
>
>
>Had to put my cat down this morning; he had cancer, and was beginning to
>become
>a bit too umcomfortable. He had pretty much stopped eating. I adopted him as
>an adult cat; he was 6 years old, and had been a ward of the Humane Society for
>11 months and 2 weeks when I found him. He got an extra 10 1/2 years he
>wouldn't have had, had I gone two weeks later. He was the kindest, gentlest,
>most noble creature I have ever had the honour to share a life with, and I miss
>him horribly already, even though it's only been a few hours.
>
>Goodbye, old friend.
>
Too many kitties don't have that, sad to say.
(I still miss Galaxy, The Most Expensive Budgie in the World, and it's been
years now.)
--
Pat K. aa#1154
"Yes, swooping is bad."
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irob...@verizon.net
Jan 7, 2013, 1:23:02 PM1/7/13
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better words.
E P I L O G U E
On January 4, 1993, the cat in this book and the books that preceded
it was put to sleep in Kerrville, Texas, by Dr. W.H. Hoegemeyer and
myself. Cuddles was fourteen years old, a respectable age. She was as
close to me as any human being I have ever known.
Cuddles and I spent many years together, both in New York, where I
first found her as a little kitten on the street in Chinatown, and
later on the ranch in Texas. She was always with me, on the table, on
the bed, by the fireplace, beside the typewriter, on top of my
suitcase when I returned from a trip.
I dug Cuddles' grave with a silver spade, in the little garden by the
stream behind the old green trailer where both of us lived in the
summertime. Her burial shroud was my old New York sweatshirt and in
the grave with her is a can of tuna and a cigar
A few days ago I received a sympathy note from Bill Hoegemeyer, the
veterinarian. It opened with a verse by Irving Townsend: "We who
choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our
own live within a fragile circle ......
Now, as I write this, on a gray winter day by the fireside, I can
almost feel her light tread, moving from my head and my heart down
through my fingertips to the keys of the typewriter People may
surprise you with unexpected kindness. Dogs have a depth of loyalty
that often we seem unworthy of. But the love of a cat is a blessing, a
privilege in this world.
They say when you die and go to heaven all the dogs and cats you've
ever had in your life come running to meet you.
Until that day, rest in peace, Cuddles.
irob...@verizon.net
Jan 7, 2013, 1:18:08 PM1/7/13
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On Jan 5, 1:51 pm, sbalneav <sbaln...@alburg.net> wrote:
feel for an animal. A quote I first saw in Kinky Friedman's eulogy to
his cat Cuddles always spoke the reality of our respective lifetimes
clearly.
"We who choose to surround ourselves
with lives even more temporary than our
easily and often breached.
Unable to accept its awful gaps,
we would still live no other way.
We cherish memory as the only
certain immortality, never fully
understanding the necessary plan."
-- Irving Townsend
Wm. Esque
Jan 7, 2013, 8:41:02 PM1/7/13
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On 1/5/2013 1:51 PM, sbalneav wrote:
> Had to put my cat down this morning; he had cancer, and was beginning to become
> a bit too umcomfortable. He had pretty much stopped eating. I adopted him as
> an adult cat; he was 6 years old, and had been a ward of the Humane Society for
> 11 months and 2 weeks when I found him. He got an extra 10 1/2 years he
> wouldn't have had, had I gone two weeks later. He was the kindest, gentlest,
> most noble creature I have ever had the honour to share a life with, and I miss
> him horribly already, even though it's only been a few hours.
>
> Goodbye, old friend.
>
This is too sad!
> Had to put my cat down this morning; he had cancer, and was beginning to become
> a bit too umcomfortable. He had pretty much stopped eating. I adopted him as
> an adult cat; he was 6 years old, and had been a ward of the Humane Society for
> 11 months and 2 weeks when I found him. He got an extra 10 1/2 years he
> wouldn't have had, had I gone two weeks later. He was the kindest, gentlest,
> most noble creature I have ever had the honour to share a life with, and I miss
> him horribly already, even though it's only been a few hours.
>
> Goodbye, old friend.
>
We too lost a pet cat named Tish few years ago, I believe she died
of a broken heart.
She would always leave her bed every morning and go into our daughter,
Patsey's room about 7:AM jump up on the bed and wake her. Too soon our
daughter married and left home.
For days after she left, Tish would actively search for her, crying
constantly, going to her bed, chairs, computer room, wherever she
pent time, often holding the cat.
Several times Tish would jump upon my lap and stare into my face
softly meowing and then she would go to my wife and do the same.
We could not of course explain anything to her, but we felt she
was questing and begging us. Both me and my wife tried to get her
to bond with one of us, but to no avail. She was Patsey's pet and
that was that.
We noticed after a couple of weeks that she became quite thin,
passive and refused to eat. Our daughter married and moved out of
state so, visiting home during the first weeks wasn't possible. After
several visits to the vet, who could never find anything wrong with
our cat, she died.
We gave the kitten as a present, when our daughter was six or seven.
Tish was about 15 years old when she passed.
I always will believe she died of a broken heart, even though
I never before believed that cats could become so bonded to
a person that an separation could be so traumatic. Thinking
about Tish, I sometimes still get a little depressed.
Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess
Jan 20, 2013, 3:54:14 PM1/20/13
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On Sat, 5 Jan 2013 18:51:49 +0000 (UTC)
sbalneav <sbal...@alburg.net> wrote:
> Had to put my cat down this morning; he had cancer, and was beginning
> to become a bit too umcomfortable. He had pretty much stopped
> eating. I adopted him as an adult cat; he was 6 years old, and had
> been a ward of the Humane Society for 11 months and 2 weeks when I
> found him. He got an extra 10 1/2 years he wouldn't have had, had I
> gone two weeks later. He was the kindest, gentlest, most noble
> creature I have ever had the honour to share a life with, and I miss
> him horribly already, even though it's only been a few hours.
>
> Goodbye, old friend.
I offer you my condolences.
> Had to put my cat down this morning; he had cancer, and was beginning
> to become a bit too umcomfortable. He had pretty much stopped
> eating. I adopted him as an adult cat; he was 6 years old, and had
> been a ward of the Humane Society for 11 months and 2 weeks when I
> found him. He got an extra 10 1/2 years he wouldn't have had, had I
> gone two weeks later. He was the kindest, gentlest, most noble
> creature I have ever had the honour to share a life with, and I miss
> him horribly already, even though it's only been a few hours.
>
> Goodbye, old friend.
--
Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess
"Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our
equal."
-- Charles Darwin
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