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silvasava

Loving the way we remember the pets that stay in our hearts. I've always had cats & was lucky enough to have a very special one. Mitzi a grey and white dainty, gentle female who we had for nearly 20 years. She never meowed - always chirruped in various tones but I knew exactly what she was saying. DS1 spent 2 years or so in Australia and every time he rang home he always asked how she was - when he finally came home he said he didn't expect her to still be alive. She lasted a few more years & our lovely vet came to the house in the end as I couldn't bear the thought of her being anywhere but in her home with us. Even my big butch DH cried - she's in the garden in her favourite spot.
I've been really interested in the stories lately of how animals are bonding with children who have difficulties of one sort or another in an almost telepathic way. Even Bob the streetcar has helped turn a life around.

ivyleaf

It was Panda who asked Witless about the white pudding

Kitten is in manic mode this morning. Apart from a brief pause to be stroked when he went upstairs to say good morning to DS, he's been galloping around and pouncing on everything he sees.

I had to ring the hospital an hour ago about a pre-op assessment by telephone I was meant to have had yesterday but no one had rung me, and while I was on the phone, he took a flying leap from several feet away and knocked everything off the table by my chair, including a glass of water (the third in three days!). I made a desperate grab for the glass, and in doing so I managed to knock the mouse down and couldn't find it. I eventually spotted it behind my chair, or I wouldn't be here typing .
Thank you polly, monnagran and silvasava for sharing your lovely cats with us even though they made me cry as I was feeling so fraught already!
I haven't had breakfast yet as I'm still waitibg for someone from the hospital to call me back, but I'm just going to have to risk it

nursemaggie

What is white pudding?

camelot1001

Sorry ivyleaf I pressed spam on your post by mistake whilst reading on my phone. I've unspammed it.

silvasava

Oh Ivy - didn't mean to make you cry
your blood sugar must be low 'cos you havn't had your brekky - hope you've had something to eat by now. Big Hug x

LameWolf

Loving (in a poignant way) the cat remembrances. I've never kept cats, and of course these days I only have other peoples' dogs to stay (though it affects me just as much when one of my regulars crosses Rainbow bridge.)

There is a tale about Border Collie Bailey - we were having veggie toad in the hole for dins, and I always make Marmite gravy to go with it. The smell of the sausages and the Marmite had Bailey drooling - so much that I had to get a towel and wipe his face, or there's have been a wet puddle on the floor.:eek:

Bailey could also open the back door. I put him and his mate Cassie (lurcher cross) outside to play (enclosed back garden and totally visible from the lounge) while I vacuumed, as Bailey would try to bite the vacuum cleaner wheels, and I turned around to see the pair of them standing in the lounge doorway, positively smirking at me.:D

Nargleblast

Attacking vacuum cleaners must be a Border Collie thing, my Molly does the same!

ivyleaf

silvasava wrote: »

Oh Ivy - didn't mean to make you cry
your blood sugar must be low 'cos you havn't had your brekky - hope you've had something to eat by now. Big Hug x

No probs Camelot, and thanks, silva. I think it was just because Smidge has been very hard work the last couple of days and most of the time I don't seem to be able to do the slightest thing without him pouncing on my hand/the hot water etc., and as you say, with not having eaten anything at the time either, and waiting for the hospital to ring me (they still haven't :mad:) it just got a bit much.

Still, at least he's not a Bengal, or he'd be deafening us as well as everything else! And he's a sweetie when he's not in psycho mode.

LW That did make me laugh! I'd love to have seen your face when you found they'd got in!

pollyanna_26

Just been catching up and reading the lovely memories of the pets of the heart . I started talking of mine to distract from the bacon and have just read the loving and heartfelt memories . Thank you all . I think it may have been Monna who mentioned assistance pets . It's only in the last few years as we've come to know some owners of assistance dogs it's dawned on dd and I that our beloved Oliver aka Olliemog to all who knew him acted as an assistance cat all those years ago . Self appointed . As I mentioned yesterday he always settled on the sofa early evening behind me . As soon as dd was ready for bed he would head upstairs with her for the night . Night time was the worst time of the day for her she seldom slept and all her fears and terrors came to the fore .. Ollie would sit while she was on the desktop but as she got into bed finally would either lie at her side , on her chest or if she was very anxious would drape himself around her neck as she read . he rarely came into my room but if he did I knew I needed to check on dd and he was always spot on coming for me .
I'd love to have seen a picture of the huge dog and tiny kitten monna . I always think it's a pity some people can't be more like animals with love and empathy .
I see you had a Mog Maryb that brought back the memory of the Mog books and the tears here when Mog got his wings and halo . Eldest daughter works for a major bookseller and got that book complete with a furry mog before release and sent it here with no warning . Oh how we sobbed ., Mog still has a place on the dining room dresser all these years on .


Well it's been a very long day we now have much stronger ABs . We also collected dds meds after the doctors . We did some shopping in town and i confess the whole day is a horrible blur . Think we'll sleep tonight .
polly x

monnagran

Hope you sleep well Polly. Everything looks better in the morning,,.