Does your Cat (or any pet) misbehave since caregiving your loved one?
Have you been required to take care of your loved one's pet after they have passed? Does your pet have cute antics that entertain your loved one?
And finally, has the cat or dog transferred their loyalty to your Mother?
My 18 year old cat knows just where to sit at dinner time. She's so smart. If she smells a sea food meal or a chicken meal, she runs over to sit under grandma's table. She knows that grandma is a terrible eater always dropping food on the floor so like a dog, she sits and waits for the food to fall, it always does, and she gobbles it up. It always makes me laugh to see how excited she is for falling food.
My three and two year old cats like to run and play chase. It makes me laugh to see them running around the house knocking things over playing hide and seek. The cats will hide behind things even though we can see them so we know the other can see them but they dont care. They hide behind trash cans, people's chairs, under tables, behind chairs, on top of shelves, etc and wait for the other cat to come find them. My 3 year old is too anxious and always jumps out before the 2 year old who is willing to sit all day under a bed, waiting for it to be quiet to come out. She always wins every time but that doesn't stop them from jumping about. My favorite thing ot watch is when Annabelle jumps up on a shelf hiding from Willow who heard her and knows she's there. Just when Annabelle's butt wiggles to ponce, Willow always scares her either jumping up or yelling or something to make Annabelle jump and run away. It's so funny to watch.
I love my cats and need them to keep me sane in my insane life.
I havve an old male cat and a MaMa cat with 3 of her kittens..They have alot of fun too.
I don't know what I'd do without mine either.Cat's are awesome!
The cat with the thyroid problem is still losing weight, not a good sign. Vet did a sonogram, either its a bad infection in her stomach or it is cancer. MORE PILLS !! This time I needed to wrap her in a towel so that sig other would shove the pills down her throat.
Found some senior "soup" type cat food that is easier to eat... they come in packets. Of course, now they won't eat anything else.... [sigh].
Our wild child sees the Vet tomorrow for his follow-up glaucoma eye issue. And while there I will have the Vet check his head as it looked like he had a disagreement with a bird and lost the argument. Probably was a crow, as the cat's collar was taken, which was shiny. The boy never has realized that not everyone wants to be his friend.... [sigh].
There are many photos, and even cat art online.
So, can we have pictures of your cats in your Avatar, or a favorite online photo, and more cat stories? I love the cat antics, and stories. Sometimes wondering if cats know more than we do.
Cat Avatar week starts now......
A squirrel came to the front porch at 1:00 p.m.
It peered into the screen door.
Aggressive much?
This was not even Nutjob, the squirrel I have named.
Dh and I went to check on Charley, who has already been adopted-they say Border Collies are very popular. How can I be sad that he has a home? I wanted a photo of him after he was all cleaned up and bright-eyed.
We were talking about our upcoming anniversary and maybe going out to dinner, sitting on a patio-type restaurant. It all sounded too hard to find the time. I told hubs that I was not at all sure we would still be married by then. He laughed, saying it is only 6 days away.
Speaking of anniversaries..........Hubs and I were so busy moving that we both forgot ours this year. I still have his card and haven't signed it yet. :)
I brought the big carpeted climbing gym over from my place for them. Currently she is dozing on the bottom and he is zonked out on the top platform. I really hope they become BFFs! :-D
Bootsie,Odom and Precious send good night hugs to Carmella and Bruce and hope they have good cat dreams tonight~nite!
1. Stay home
2. Wear a coat
3. Get wet
Dog wishes it to be understood that none of the above is acceptable. Dog demands further and better options. Why can the control-freak human who is always saying "do this do that come here stop down idiot dog" not bring a halt to this incessant rain, then? Hm? Yah. Not so big and clever then, eh?
Has anyone here ever run into a situation where you knew it was time to say good-bye but someone in your family didn't? That they weren't seeing the same suffering that you were seeing. Where if the pet ate a teaspoon of food, that means the pet was going to recover, even though the Vet said the pet was seriously ill?
My sig other had me so angry over this situation. He didn't want to let her go, he thought she would improve. Yes, she still did some things out of routine, but those were just moments out of the day, the rest of the day was heartbreaking. I finally had to tell sig other that he was being selfish with what he was doing. He eventually agreed. He's a basket-case right now, can't stop crying, his grieving is so different from mine. I did my grieving during the past couple of months when I saw that she was failing. The Vet recently spotted stomach cancer.
It's tough when the household has elderly pets. Just this past June we said good-bye to another cat, who was 18, she had a second stroke that did too much damage. She was in the Animal ER ICU, hooked up to breathing tubes, etc. which did make it a bit easier to say "now is the time".
Yes. I made the decision to “say good bye “ to our 15 yr old Choc Lab in June.
I fed him, took care of him during his 6 month decline.
The Vet came to the house. Hubby was here. Hubby was so mad, upset, pouting that I had called the vet that it was “time”.
When the Vet got here Hubby tried to stay with us but kept having to walk away because he was sobbing. Hubby was very upset with me and the whole situation for a couple days.
And no, this was not Hubby’s dog. And no, Hubby was not unusually bonded with this dog.
Technically it was my sons dog given to him on his 14th bday. Son grew up and moved but dog stayed. The dog and I were always together, I took care of him, etc, etc, so I made the decision when to let him go.
I guess that’s what the problem was. Think Hubby thought in his mind I was out of line, had a heart of ice, I don’t know.
When the Vet got to our house she agreed it was “time”. That didn’t make it any easier for Hubby.
He settled down in a couple days. This was the first time this decision has had to be made in our household.
I too grieved as our Lab went downhill those last 6 months.
Glad you posted your story.
I had to put down my boy cat George at the end of January and it was one of the hardest things I've done. He was definitely the animal "love of my life." He had cancer, a tumor in his jaw. Fortunately it was just me making the decision. I kept him at home (with vet support) for a month after the diagnosis, and he was content enough, hopped up on liquid tramadol and fentanyl patches. But I made a decision that when he could no longer eat, I wouldn't let him suffer or starve to death. And that's what happened. I think I might have kept him going longer if I had not already been there through stepmother's decline and death from cancer - what she wanted more than anything was assisted suicide when the pain got bad, but it wasn't legal in Canada then.
When I think about it from the perspective of all the people begging for assisted suicide in this world, it really brings home the responsibility of being the trustees of our pets' lives.
I can't imagine being in great pain and suffering, with death looming, and just wanting to be released but no release coming. Seems like the definition of inhumane to force that amount of suffering to continue for as long as someone's body will continue on functioning, just for some people's personal moral position of "all human life is sacred, every last moment you can eek out, no matter how torturous."
I think Bruce is a great name for a cat! I love it, very cute.
One good friend has the same problem with her hubby, he absolutely will not euthanize a pet big or small till long after they should be gone then like your SO he is very upset.
Will you get another kitty FF? Hubby did not want to replace the last one we lost but I was so upset he finally relented so we went to the SPCA and picked out a sweet tabby called Carley. She is now getting old so i don't know what we will do when she is gone.
After my shower,I came out to the kitchen and thhe box I keep the cats and dog food and treats in was on the floor and when I went in the den,in their boxes they play in with leaves and stuff from outside,was an unopened can of tuna,all the dogs chicken treats,1 of my sponges I keep by the sink and a little can I keep crunchies in for them.She was having a hayday while the other 2 kittens just watched.I just wonder how she thought she was gonna open that can of tuna.Something else!