[Cats] anyone still out there?

[Sherlin7@aol.com]

I'm so sorry about Phoebe, Marie. It's always a heartache to lose a furkid,  
even though you know it's inevitable. 
 
That's a nice idea, to have kept a lock of her hiar. Brigitte, our Lhasa,  
was the first I had cremated and kept the ashes. She crossed the bridge in  
December of 06 .  I intended to bury or sprinkle her ashes with Butch,  our 
Chihuahua who had crossed the year before, but they are still on the mantle  in a 
flowered container alongside Simi, who I lost last year. 
 
So funny about Harry and Hugs taking over Cory and Tammy's rituals. Yes,  
that would be a comfort. 
 
 
Purrs &  headbutts,
Linda and the Catly Crew

 
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 9/10/2008 12:51:55 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
dall19 at comcast.net writes:

Hi,  all!

Kids are back to school and all of the back-to-school issues are  coming 
to a close, so I have a bit more time to devote to my own interests  
again. 

You're all so quiet!  The summer  was eventful for all of us.  Vacation, 
getting my middle daughter  ready for high school, and dealing with a 
loss in our household.  We  lost Phoebe (the dog) to cancer.  It was too 
far advanced for her to  fight.  Chemo was too taxing for her, so we 
discontinued it and lost  her a week later.  She died on her own (no 
euthanasia) in the car on  the way to my vet's office.  Dummy me 
reflexively stated CPR before I  realized what a stupid thing it would be 
to resuscitate her.  Bill  wanted her ashes back - the first time we've 
ever done that - and they're  now sitting on the mantle in a pretty 
wooden box with her collar and a  lock of her hair.

Hugs misses her - as we all do.  He has no one  to bring stuffed toys to 
anymore.  He still carries them around in  his mouth and now follows the 
humans around while he carries them, meowing  insistently.  My ancient 
one, Pumpkin, about 22 y/o now, is still  going strong.  He's deaf as a 
door post, but he still gets around  like a youngster.  The youngest, 
Harry and Hermione, are 4 y/o  now.

It's funny how when we lose a fuzzer from our "herd," one of the  others 
takes on personality traits of the one who's gone.  Harry is  getting 
more and more like Corey every day.  And Hugs has taken over  the bedtime 
rituals that Tammy used to do every night.  It's sort of  comforting to 
see this, while at other times it gets downright creepy.  <g>

What are everyone else's fuzzers up  to?

-Marie

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