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Posted 2 years ago #
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Really sorry for you mate.
I just picked my 2 up from the cattery yesterday after 3 weeks away, and am lovin every minute of having them around again, even the live mouse they brought upstairs to the bedroom at 5am this morning! little buggers!!
RIP Smudge.
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Lynsey and I just spent some time reading all of your lovely messages, both having a wee bit of a bubble but we know it'll get easier.
We get her remains back on Thursday so planning a decent send off on Friday. At long last Lynsey's realising that all my time spent on the forum isn't entirely wasted.
Cheers all,
G
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It might seem small consolation, but it's worth remembering how much worst it would have been if Smudge had lingered for days before passing away. It all happened very quickly - from the time you first noticed something was slightly wrong to when you got her in front of a vet, was only a few hours, so there was nothing more you could have done for her - getting her to the vets an hour earlier for example, clearly wouldn't have helped. And you can't go rushing to the vets every time an animal is just sick.
Worth remembering too, that unlike humans, animals tend not to get distressed when they are ill. In those few short hours when Smudge was ill, she would have been quite unaware that much was wrong. And apart from perhaps when she was actually vomiting, she is unlikely to have felt particularly distressed - you didn't mention in your initial post that she was howling, cats tend to howl when they are in pain or seriously distressed. The emotional distress that you have experienced, is likely to be far greater than anything Smudge experienced.
Finally, don't torment yourself by convincing yourself that someone did her harm - you don't know that. Yes there are some very nasty and cruel people in this world and we sometimes hear or read about them, but they extraordinarily rare, most people are decent human beings who feel compassion and humanity - even if they don't particularly like cats. There is a very high probability that it was just a tragic accident - as suggested by bigdawg in his post. Or as wrightyson points out, lilies are deadly to cats and Smudge might have licked a lily flower left in a pot in someone's garden - you just don't know - cats unfortunately, sometimes do silly things.
Be grateful for the 7 years in which Smudge brighten up your lives. Although I know it's difficult and I know what you're going through
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I am very sorry for the loss, this has really upset me. I am sitting here with my two little fluffy men and would be devastated if anything happened. I guess the pain will eventually subside and you will get back to normal. Good luck mate!
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hi mate,HUGE catfan here,i'm not afraid to say i shed a tear for you and your gf when i came across this post tonight,we do love our cats and thats a fact,
something which helped me when we lost one was knowing that you gave them the best life possible and like you say old smudge looked very very content "doing what smudge did best",
you and your gf loved smudge and you did the best for your cat,there are cats who never have such good owners,
my deep sympathies mate,(only cat people knows cats like we do!)Posted 2 years ago # -
Really sorry for you, it's always awful losing a pet. We lost our Pippin about a month ago, she seemed absolutely fine one day then choking and fighting for breath the next. It turned out she had a massive tumour in her chest cavity, all very sad. She didn't suffer though and it sounds like yours didn't either. I was in the same quandry wondering whether or not to wait and see if things cleared, but I'm glad we took her. We've both absolute cat fans and luckily Pippin's sister Tigger is still going strong.
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Sorry for your loss, G. We had one of our cats put to sleep just a few weekends ago; he was sixteen and had a bit of a rough start to life when he lost a front leg at two - but gad failing kidneys, had stopped purring, and his quality of life had rapidly deteriorated.
Am particularly saddened to hear of the circumstances surrounding his untimely end.
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