FOR EVERYONE WHO HAS LOST A BELOVED PET

“My new kitten is hiding under the radiator! What do I do now?” Words of sheer panic when I brought my newly adopted kitty Nicky home some years ago. We got through the start-up part and you were by my side through times that were hard and times that were less so, my tuxie boy, and in the 12 or so years that we were companions you taught me how to love. On a sad never-to-be-forgotten Thursday you started making breathing sounds that had me shrieking and saw me taking you to the vet who transferred you to the emergency vet’s. The next 2 days were a horror. Will never know exactly what suddenly went wrong, but after 2 wretched days, on Sunday I had to make the dreaded decision to let you go. I stroked your soft black and white fur and quoted Hamlet” “Goodnight sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.” I wept, as did the tech and vet who’d “seen it all.” Then I kissed your sweet face one last time. You were out of pain, mine was only starting. Never again I said. Then Dorry came into a heart that had room for another kitty. He is not and never will be you. You are irreplaceable. But he is love on four furry feet and I know that you would not want me to be alone. Play well Nicky boy!
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So very, very sorry KZ. RIP in the Meadow lovely lady Katherine.

There were cats and dogs and a tortoise and a budgie and hamsters and a white mouse when I was a child, all of course long gone now.

Since marriage there have been budgies and cockatiels and cockatoos and parrots and macaws and finches and tropical fish and gerbils and hamsters and a tarantula . . . but three dogs and eight cats have been the most loved, and have loved us in return.

Now that we’re older, cat number eight, Merlin, will probably be our last, and so it is possible that he is the most spoiled, as well as the cuddliest, happiest of all our pets. So many have gone before – the most recent being my beautiful white cat, Rincewind, whose passing is still fresh in my heart, many months later.

I wouldn’t have been without any of them (with the possible exception of the tarantula) but the pain of losing them can be overwhelming.

Would I choose to avoid the losses by not having pets in the first place, if I had the chance? Not a bit! To be loved and trusted by another warm, living creature is a special privilege, and I am so thankful to have known every one of them.

Oh my, sending my condolences out to KZ on passing of Katherine today.

May special memories comfort you in the days ahead.

Sigh, sometimes our furry/purries are called to the Meadow too soon…

I am sorry to hear about Katherine, the most important things is that she had a loving and friendly home while she was with you, her memories will keep her alive evermore…

You’ll never know the comfort all of you have given me today, your shared stories and kind words and thoughts. I have a list of beloved pets and MS you are so right about them never being forgotten and they DID make us who we are now. My cats have taught me more about love and compassion than any person ever has. And this is the only place where people understand how it feels to lose a beloved, and grieves along with you.