My cat is dead

joolsybools

Sorry for your loss xxx

ClareEmily

MrsE wrote: »

I don't know.......

It can be a stark warning to other cat owners.

I let mine out, but only during day light, still a risk, but not so much so.

Maybe he could have put this thoughts on the matter in a new thread

carlastc_2

I understand exactly where you're coming from having lost several cats on the road over a number of years.

Some years ago I had a lovely tabby, Prudence, she was a very pretty little cat and so timid but she got out one night and then came the knock at the door early morning from someone who had run over our cat.

My partner went out to collect what he thought was Pru's body but when he picked her up she was still alive.

We called the Emergency vet and expected them to put her to sleep but they called several hours later and said that she was still alive but they'd had to rermove one eye and a back leg.

She stayed in the Vetinary Hospital for 5 days and then we got the call to say that our brave little Pru had died.

Her ashes are now under the rose bush we planted for her in the garden.

I also lost my baby Grace a black and white earlier this year, we found her in the road, she's buried in the garden.

Artytarty

Somerset, I can feel your pain just reading this post. It jumps off the page in the stark words you used.
I am so so sorry for you.
Been there, done that, it will take time but one day you will smile again.
Arty.

Somerset

Thanks everyone again.

Last post was Mutter's before I went to do some shopping. I wasn't rational yesterday, I'm not rational today and I might not be rational tomorrow - in my current frame of mind if I met him/her/it right now I'd kick the living !!!! out of him/her/it.

I'll probably get banned for that but who gives a !!!!.

Tears all day yesterday. Still crying today. My O/H was/is great but he's already saying ''it's just a cat, love''. I don't blame him - he's not me. I loved Ziggy, he liked Ziggy. We can't all be the same. He keeps asking me what I'm going to do today ..... on Wednesday I could have answered that, a stack of stuff, some of it financial. I don't want to do anything, it just doesn't seem important any more. I've got a lot to be grateful for, people in my life and the dog, and I shouldn't neglect them - I do love them, but I'm just focused on what I've lost. i know that will change .... it's only the day after.

You know what's weird ? I didn't know I loved the cat that much ...... I did, but I didn't know it.

I've cleared away his bowls in the conservatory, closed the window in the conservatory that he used to get in and out, cleared away the litter tray and upstairs water bowl. There are too many things that remind me. I woke up this morning and looked at the en-suite sink and remembered he sometimes slept in there as a big kitten (he would pick the weirdest places). I went outside and saw the big rubbish bin - he used to sit on top of it and survey his kingdom.

Anyway, O/H is back for a spell. Have to appear 'normal'. If I don't post again assume I've been banned.

ClareEmily

Somerset wrote: »

Thanks everyone again.

Last post was Mutter's before I went to do some shopping. I wasn't rational yesterday, I'm not rational today and I might not be rational tomorrow - in my current frame of mind if I met him/her/it right now I'd kick the living !!!! out of him/her/it.

I'll probably get banned for that but who gives a !!!!.

Tears all day yesterday. Still crying today. My O/H was/is great but he's already saying ''it's just a cat, love''. I don't blame him - he's not me. I loved Ziggy, he liked Ziggy. We can't all be the same. He keeps asking me what I'm going to do today ..... on Wednesday I could have answered that, a stack of stuff, some of it financial. I don't want to do anything, it just doesn't seem important any more. I've got a lot to be grateful for, people in my life and the dog, and I shouldn't neglect them - I do love them, but I'm just focused on what I've lost. i know that will change .... it's only the day after.

You know what's weird ? I didn't know I loved the cat that much ...... I did, but I didn't know it.

I've cleared away his bowls in the conservatory, closed the window in the conservatory that he used to get in and out, cleared away the litter tray and upstairs water bowl. There are too many things that remind me. I woke up this morning and looked at the en-suite sink and remembered he sometimes slept in there as a big kitten (he would pick the weirdest places). I went outside and saw the big rubbish bin - he used to sit on top of it and survey his kingdom.

Anyway, O/H is back for a spell. Have to appear 'normal'. If I don't post again assume I've been banned.

I cried myself to sleep when my kitten died and I remember my dad patting me on the head and saying there there :rolleyes: which made me cry harder

Ziggy was part of your family and it is natural to grieve for him

If I was you I would curl up on the sofa with your doggy, with a massive bar of choc, big box of tissues and a comedy.

Time is a great healer and it sounds like he had a fab life with you xxx

medini

I read you post, and all the comments and then the second post about clearing away Ziggys things and then I just started crying. Some people don't understand how close you can feel to your pet, I almost think of my two as small furry people sometimes. When my OH had to have his last cat put to sleep he was so distraught that he could't eat or go to work, so what your feeling is completly normal.

Lots of hugs.

duchy

You won't get banned
I thought you were quite restrained in your response to an utterly horrible post.
I'm so sorry for your loss and hope the time comes that you can remember Ziggy with a smile remembering his endearing ways as the grief recedes.

RacyRed

Don't be afraid of letting yourself grieve Hun, you need to do that. And you are not the first to find out just how much you loved a pet afterl it has gone, many of us have had that happen.

I also thought that your post was very restrained in the circumstances, so don't worry about that either.

mrtobs

So sorry, really feel for what you're going through - I've lost a couple of (young) cats in the past through being run over - its devastating and I couldn't quite believe it at first. Please don't let it put you off giving a loving home to another puss - there are so many out there that desperately need them - but I'd personally give yourself a bit of time to get your head round things first. He was obviously very much loved and must have had a very happy life - Ziggy sounds like quite a character and I'm sure that he'll always stay in your thoughts.