dustertogo
Well-Known Member
Sorry about your loss of Friendly. Ours is 14yo and I dread the day when her time is up. RIP Friendly.
Lost A Good Cat Today
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Very sorry to hear that you lost one of your cats/family members... 
I'm sure you gave him a nice home while you had it...
I'm sure you gave him a nice home while you had it...
Sorry to hear about kitty cat, I know you love your kitties. May your heart be filled with love and great memories, and many more kitties to come.
JCFcuda
Active Member
You get attached to them that’s for sure
@FISHYPETE I sure am sorry. You should go to your local shelter and find a new friend. They are in need everywhere. I am going to find Kitty another one, but she doesn't know it yet. Friendly tolerated me, but he loved Kitty a lot. He was her cat. Before he disappeared for the 3 1/2 year span, he was just fine with me and we actually think he was more my cat. On his return, he was very skiddish of me, unless I sat down in the yard swing or the front porch, then he would come to me. We think a man somewhere mis treated him while he was gone. At least he got to come back home and he died with his boots on on his own back porch.
Oh man, I’m sorry to hear of your loss. Friendly looks just like one of ours.
You’re in my thoughts.
You’re in my thoughts.
Back in Time
Well-Known Member
RIP Friendly
sorry to hear
i thnk i posted a pic previously that showed our gray that looks like yours i'am expecting ours to depart this year as this will be his 19th year and is looking very worn and fragile but in no pain that we can tell still comes running ( although slower) for his meals
i thnk i posted a pic previously that showed our gray that looks like yours i'am expecting ours to depart this year as this will be his 19th year and is looking very worn and fragile but in no pain that we can tell still comes running ( although slower) for his meals
Sorry to hear of your cat's passing, Rusty. We have several cats and a couple dogs here. Its always hard when one passes.
This is my buddy Holmes helping me with some manifold mods when he was a kitten. Holmes and his brother Watson are our youngest. Both are 20 lb. Toms now that they have grown up and are best buds with our dogs.
HB
This is my buddy Holmes helping me with some manifold mods when he was a kitten. Holmes and his brother Watson are our youngest. Both are 20 lb. Toms now that they have grown up and are best buds with our dogs.
HB
Hot dog! And right there in the kitchen, too. Bout like me! You remind me of me too......not bein able to push away from the table. lol I think we have the same love of all things FOOD! LOL
The cycle of life.
Happens to all of us.
Still sucks to lose a friend.
For those that "can't bear to have another pet because they too, will eventually "shuffle off...".
Remember that domesticated cats (and dogs) are massively overpopulated due to human greed, arrogance, and ignorance.
Adopting a shelter (or animal control) pet is literally saving their life. Quite literally in the case of animal control.
Those animals captured by or surrendered to your local animal control usually have 30 days before they are euthanized en mass.
I live in a relatively rural county and have been involved several times with various feral cat organizations.
The latest figures I am aware of is that our animal control (County Sheriff) puts down 17,000 cats and 10,000 dogs every year.
Again, that's just one county.
I have to actually force myself to try not to think about that all day every day or I run the risk of depression setting in.
A new pet will never replace a lost pet, but will help to fill the void, and if you don't buy from a puppy or kitty mill (or even a registered breeder), you will be saving a life and contributing to the solution rather than the problem.
...and get them "fixed".
Happens to all of us.
Still sucks to lose a friend.
For those that "can't bear to have another pet because they too, will eventually "shuffle off...".
Remember that domesticated cats (and dogs) are massively overpopulated due to human greed, arrogance, and ignorance.
Adopting a shelter (or animal control) pet is literally saving their life. Quite literally in the case of animal control.
Those animals captured by or surrendered to your local animal control usually have 30 days before they are euthanized en mass.
I live in a relatively rural county and have been involved several times with various feral cat organizations.
The latest figures I am aware of is that our animal control (County Sheriff) puts down 17,000 cats and 10,000 dogs every year.
Again, that's just one county.
I have to actually force myself to try not to think about that all day every day or I run the risk of depression setting in.
A new pet will never replace a lost pet, but will help to fill the void, and if you don't buy from a puppy or kitty mill (or even a registered breeder), you will be saving a life and contributing to the solution rather than the problem.
...and get them "fixed".
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adriver
Blazing Apostle
I don't want to be buried in a pet sematary.
furyus2
Well-Known Member
RIP Friendly. The sign of a good person is their compassion for animals.
Sorry for your loss.
I say, any man that has never loved an animal and been loved by that a critter... there is a piece of his soul he has never found.
I say, any man that has never loved an animal and been loved by that a critter... there is a piece of his soul he has never found.
Like the Good Book says Rusty, 'man doth not live by bread only'...... Sometimes ya gotta have a bowl of homemade chili or some Louisiana dirty rice and gator tail gumbo to go with it!Actually, I eat less than most folks. Several doctors over the years have told me they think I am a Neanderthal throwback. Started working after school, weekends and summers at a wrecking yard breaking up frozen engine blocks with a sledge hammer when I was 14 and left home for the Marine Corps right after high school. Then worked heavy construction and drove moving vans until I went back in the service (Navy, that time) and then back to construction. Just ended up built like a 380 lb. fireplug. Can't help it. That's just the way I am.
Best regards,
Harry
Actually, I eat less than most folks. Several doctors over the years have told me they think I am a Neanderthal throwback. Started working after school, weekends and summers at a wrecking yard breaking up frozen engine blocks with a sledge hammer when I was 14 and left home for the Marine Corps right after high school. Then worked heavy construction and drove moving vans until I went back in the service (Navy, that time) and then back to construction. Just ended up built like a 380 lb. fireplug. Can't help it. That's just the way I am.
Best regards,
Harry
Hell yeah! Thank you for your service Harry! That's badass.
Has another cat adopted y'all yet, Rusty? Lots of them need a good home. Especially this time of year.
We had a new cat show up at feeding time for the outside cats this evening. Young fellow. He had this expression like, 'Howdy! Heard y'all feed well. Need any more cats?' But he was cautious and took off before I could ask him if he was applying for the position.
Happy Motoring,
Harry
We had a new cat show up at feeding time for the outside cats this evening. Young fellow. He had this expression like, 'Howdy! Heard y'all feed well. Need any more cats?' But he was cautious and took off before I could ask him if he was applying for the position.
Happy Motoring,
Harry
Not yet. I want to go to the local shelter and get one, but Kitty's not ready yet.
My wife was the same way when our last Rotti passed. She's younger than me, but I can tell she's concerned about what will become of our cats and dogs who survive us. I reminded her that the kids and grandkids would give them a good home when the time comes. And since then, we now have a great-grandson as well.
I think the main thing for her was coming to the realization that a new dog or cat was not a 'replacement' for the one who passed and if we allowed a new one to adopt us, it wasn't being unfaithful to the memory of the one now gone who had loved us unconditionally. Just a new furry friend to share our lives with. Once she got past that, she was OK. And she knows we will see them all again one day.
Best regards,
Harry
I think the main thing for her was coming to the realization that a new dog or cat was not a 'replacement' for the one who passed and if we allowed a new one to adopt us, it wasn't being unfaithful to the memory of the one now gone who had loved us unconditionally. Just a new furry friend to share our lives with. Once she got past that, she was OK. And she knows we will see them all again one day.
Best regards,
Harry
Mouse action
Well-Known Member
Just went thru this a few weeks ago
I had my girl 20 years,she was the daughter we never had.
Nothing makes a grown man cry more then the loss of our pets.
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