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- Fri Mar 27, 2020 7:00 pm
- Forum: General Cat Chatting!
- Topic: Worlds Best Cat Litter
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2743
Re: Worlds Best Cat Litter
Why don’t you try the litter quitter and forget using cat litter altogether.
- Thu Feb 13, 2020 11:54 pm
- Forum: Bereavement Support
- Topic: Cat Death (FLUTD) - my fault?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3643
Re: Cat Death (FLUTD) - my fault?
Hi I see your wee boy died in September and it’s now February. You might be feeling a bit better now or loads better or not better at all. We are all different and we even react differently to different deaths. When I lost my cat in August, although it was sad and I miss him, I didn’t feel desponden...
- Thu Feb 13, 2020 11:22 pm
- Forum: Bereavement Support
- Topic: My Baby Buddy
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2010
Re: My Baby Buddy
Hi I have not been on this forum for quite some time but I am here now and I am sorry to read about your cat. I lost my 15 year old cat in August 19. Like yours, he wandered off and didn’t come home but I managed to find him. He was very confused and not like his old self at all. Whilst he was with ...
- Wed Apr 03, 2019 1:31 am
- Forum: Bereavement Support
- Topic: Tragic death of my cat
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1653
Re: Tragic death of my cat
Hi I am so sorry to hear your sad news and can completely understand aspects of your grief. I lost my 11 month old kitten Toulouse in 2016. We were so careful to keep him in at night but this warm spring night with baby rabbits around he was having none of it. When we found him next day it was too l...
- Fri Dec 14, 2018 11:03 pm
- Forum: Health and Behaviour Queries, Help and Advice
- Topic: In dire need of advice about cat not using the litter box
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1451
Re: In dire need of advice about cat not using the litter box
Hi Just read your post but realise it is a couple of weeks later now - sorry. My wee boy Hendrick, who sadly was fatally injured in October, was the same. We got him at 8 weeks or so and were told he was house trained and right enough, he used the litter tray immediately but then things changed for ...
- Thu Dec 13, 2018 7:54 pm
- Forum: Bereavement Support
- Topic: Im absolutely heart broken
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2305
Re: Im absolutely heart broken
Thank you Julie and Bertie for your thoughtful words. I've stopped counting which week I am on which must be a good sign but I haven't written Christmas cards - normal for many but not someone who usually has them written and posted by Nov 30th. I am a few weeks behind with the whole Christmas jovia...
- Sun Dec 02, 2018 9:28 pm
- Forum: Bereavement Support
- Topic: I keep dreaming of him
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1308
Re: I keep dreaming of him
Sounds like a lovely dream. I am finding the whole Christmas thing hard just 6 weeks since tragedy. I usually love Christmas but this year it feels so melancholy. Funny but I've lost many cats over the years in all different circumstances but my last two losses have hit me so so hard. I thought you ...
- Tue Nov 27, 2018 4:31 pm
- Forum: Bereavement Support
- Topic: Some thoughts on letting go.
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4279
Re: Some thoughts on letting go.
Hi Just read your recent posts. She is a beautiful girl. What a horrible decision for you. We had to make that decision 5 weeks ago after quite different circumstances with a very young cat. All I have done every day since is question my decision. It definitely wasn't the right decision but it defin...
- Tue Nov 20, 2018 12:44 am
- Forum: Health and Behaviour Queries, Help and Advice
- Topic: Sad update SCC/my baby is gone - Dilemma - 20yr old cat with dental problems
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4593
Re: Sad update SCC/my baby is gone - Dilemma - 20yr old cat with dental problems
Hi Just read your post. Really sad. I lost my baby 4 weeks ago - completely different circumstances but like you we were given a choice of putting him to sleep, which wasn't a choice at all. In your case, a known tumour and in ours paralysis of his back kegs and tail. It was horrible and whilst I kn...
- Tue Nov 20, 2018 12:16 am
- Forum: Bereavement Support
- Topic: Nothing seems to help
- Replies: 2
- Views: 658
Re: Nothing seems to help
Hi Poor you - I understand. It's not that we think any less of the cats we still have, it's just that sometimes you have a special extra bond - could be to do with personalities or age or circumstances or just a special moment shared together. I've been getting annoyed with my other two as all they ...
- Sat Nov 17, 2018 11:00 pm
- Forum: Bereavement Support
- Topic: Moomoo RIP.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1087
Re: Moomoo RIP.
Hi Sorry to hear about your tortie. I have a tortie girl Truffle, who is 5 though acts more like 45. She loves to sleep but she has her tortitude too and when you see those big eyes, you know something is up. The other evening Hobbs ( my black 15 yr old male) was outside on the window sill. Truffle ...
- Sun Nov 11, 2018 7:55 pm
- Forum: Bereavement Support
- Topic: I keep dreaming of him
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1308
Re: I keep dreaming of him
Hi again Do you have anyone sharing your grief with you? I am lucky in that regard as my husband misses Hendrick terribly too. That said, it can be hard watching others suffer as well as you. Hendrick was the first cat I have physically instructed to be PTS at the vets. My husband took our cats Tabi...
- Sat Nov 10, 2018 9:18 am
- Forum: Bereavement Support
- Topic: Im absolutely heart broken
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2305
Re: Im absolutely heart broken
Hi 2 weeks for you and 3 for me - I know exactly how you are feeling. I moved Hendrick's bowls at the time but his litter tray is still sitting there - that seems more final as the dishes were often removed and put in the dish washer. My older cat (15) has taken to sleeping in Hendrick's (age 2 1/ 2...
- Fri Nov 09, 2018 10:09 pm
- Forum: Bereavement Support
- Topic: I keep dreaming of him
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1308
Re: I keep dreaming of him
Hi again Well I don't really believe in unexplained things but I dabble when I need to. I bought myself two crystals when Hendrick died. I can't remember the names though I chose them for their properties and colour - ginger like Hendy. On Thursday one fell out of my pocket and I lost it. I then had...
- Sun Nov 04, 2018 11:19 pm
- Forum: Bereavement Support
- Topic: 12 days in and still tormented
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1242
Re: 12 days in and still tormented
Thank you bobby's girl. My Hendrick hurt his leg too when he was less than a year old. He knocked over a large, glass goldfish bowl (the goldfish had passed away a few days earlier and the bowl was empty) . I think he must of climbed into the bowl and it dropped from a height and smashed on a tile f...
- Thu Nov 01, 2018 6:25 pm
- Forum: Bereavement Support
- Topic: 12 days in and still tormented
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1242
Re: 12 days in and still tormented
Hi folks Thank you once again for taking the time to reply. Not having a good evening - looking back through all my photos from when he was a little kitten, all his antics and cuddles. Tonight pulling in to the drive a squirrel jumped over the dyke, ran right across the road and over the dyke at the...
- Wed Oct 31, 2018 8:49 pm
- Forum: Bereavement Support
- Topic: 12 days in and still tormented
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1242
12 days in and still tormented
It is now 12 days since we made the horrendous decision to put our little two and half year old to sleep. In that time I have relived his last hours again and again trying to rationalise his injury and the outcome then wham bam one of today's top news stories on TV is a possible cure for spinal para...
- Mon Oct 29, 2018 10:17 pm
- Forum: Health and Behaviour Queries, Help and Advice
- Topic: Anyone ever find blood in faeces?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4579
Re: Anyone ever find blood in faeces?
Hi I've not noticed it in poo - probably because my older cat has always been a mainly outdoor cat but Hobbs has come down with urinary tract infections on atleast 2 occasions in the past 15 years. Both times he started peeing in our shower( nice!) He was obviously caught short but there was blood e...
- Sat Oct 27, 2018 11:15 pm
- Forum: Bereavement Support
- Topic: Im absolutely heart broken
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2305
Re: Im absolutely heart broken
Hi That's really sad. I am shocked about how many cat illnesses I have read about on-line as I have always been relatively lucky with good health in young cats - about the only thing I have been lucky with regarding my cats. It is strange - for want of a better word, that Jack took ill so soon after...
- Thu Oct 25, 2018 10:11 pm
- Forum: Bereavement Support
- Topic: losing another baby following RTA only 2 years after previous loss
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1887
Re: losing another baby following RTA only 2 years after previous loss
Hi Andy Thank you for picking up on the loss of Hendrick. It's a week tomorrow (Friday) some week. I have been on holiday as in off work but not away - my holiday had started before it happened. This will be the worst holiday of my entire life. Tuesday was bad - me and my hot water bottle and blanke...
- Sun Oct 21, 2018 4:58 pm
- Forum: Bereavement Support
- Topic: losing another baby following RTA only 2 years after previous loss
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1887
Re: losing another baby following RTA only 2 years after previous loss
Ps I love your black cat image.
- Sun Oct 21, 2018 4:57 pm
- Forum: Bereavement Support
- Topic: losing another baby following RTA only 2 years after previous loss
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1887
Re: losing another baby following RTA only 2 years after previous loss
Many thanks. I will look at this tomorrow when I am home alone.
- Sun Oct 21, 2018 4:19 pm
- Forum: Bereavement Support
- Topic: losing another baby following RTA only 2 years after previous loss
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1887
Re: losing another baby following RTA only 2 years after previous loss
How do you add a picture. I would like to add a picture of Hendrick.
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- Sun Oct 21, 2018 4:09 pm
- Forum: Health and Behaviour Queries, Help and Advice
- Topic: Need support..I adore beloved Gandhi..BUT.
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3195
Re: Need support..I adore beloved Gandhi..BUT.
Hi I am new to this site and am sadly on because I lost my 21/2 yr old ginger boy Hendrick on Friday after he was badly injured by a car and we had the agonising decision of whether to put him to sleep or not. It's been a hell of a weekend but I've had comfort from kind thoughts by people on the sit...
- Sun Oct 21, 2018 1:57 pm
- Forum: Bereavement Support
- Topic: losing another baby following RTA only 2 years after previous loss
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1887
Re: losing another baby following RTA only 2 years after previous loss
Thank you for your thoughts and sorry to learn of your loss this year with with Emily. We had to have our cat Jasmine put to sleep 5 years ago after illness. She now sleeps under a Jasmine in the woodland at the back of the house. She took really ill suddenly 8 months earlier. We were on holiday in ...
- Sun Oct 21, 2018 8:50 am
- Forum: Bereavement Support
- Topic: losing another baby following RTA only 2 years after previous loss
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1887
Re: losing another baby following RTA only 2 years after previous loss
Thank you for your reply. I slept last night but woke early and have been thinking about him ever since - partly relieving Friday night and partly just imagining him with me. We live beside the road and every time I hear a car, I think of him. We always tried to keep him in at night - occasionally w...
- Sat Oct 20, 2018 6:30 pm
- Forum: Bereavement Support
- Topic: losing another baby following RTA only 2 years after previous loss
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1887
losing another baby following RTA only 2 years after previous loss
Yesterday my gorgeously handsome two and a half year old ginger boy Hendrick asked out after his dinner but instead of choosing the surrounding fields and hills must have chosen to cross the road. My husband left about 5.15 to pick up our daughter from uni for the weekend and just a short time later...
- Sat Oct 20, 2018 4:59 pm
- Forum: Bereavement Support
- Topic: Feeling low because of his anniversary coming up
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1647
Re: Feeling low because of his anniversary coming up
Hi I read your story of Bertie and can imagine how awful that was for you. I had to say goodbye to my gorgeous 2 year old Hendrick last night after he was struck by a car - he survived but had a life changing injury similar to Bertie's that we decided he couldn't live with. I am raw. However, with r...
- Sat Oct 20, 2018 4:40 pm
- Forum: Bereavement Support
- Topic: Heartbroken lost my first cat to traffic
- Replies: 29
- Views: 12337
Re: Heartbroken lost my first cat to traffic
Hi Matt Don't know if you will be reading this all these months on. Hope your two are still doing great. I lost my 11 month old Toulouse in April 16 - he was one of my cat Truffle's 5 kittens ( the other 4 went to friends and colleagues who still have and love them). I struggled so hard with the los...