Last Thursday I called in my kids to say goodbye to my 20 year old Cat, Nelson. He was lying on a blanket hardly able to walk, only able to take the odd sip of water and skinny as a rake.
Today I'm thinking of renaming him Lazarus because he back to his bastard-cat best self.
I shocked myself by how emotional I got when I thought I was losing him.
So my heart really goes out to you, Gill and all of Molly's human family. RIP Molly. Xx
Cheers Jon! All the best to Lazarus/Nelson - 20 years, wow! That's going some. Molly was also a bag of bones for her last couple of weeks, it was really shocking how suddenly she shrank and how much it changed her.
sad... you have reminded me of Peter Pan and Nanny who was also an old english sheepdog in the story....I lost Lightning aged 12 suddenly suspect poisoning, similar news for this area today here in Liverpool. I still have 1 dog and 4 cats.
Always horrible to hear of poisonings, such a messed-up thing to do.
We have 2 cats, but I have to admit I'm not really a cat person (and am anyway allergic to them - our two live in the barn, where we had hoped they would catch rats, but they stick instead to mice and voles)
Cats don't really like rats, its an odd one an adult rat can kill a cat, and I had this curious incident recently where the two males brought a young rat in, as I approached to capture and release (aiming in my deepest self not to be species'ist) the rat ran towards the cats feet away from mine and eventually one of the cats picked it up like a kitten and took it out. Plus there is a theory that some rats contain a dormant tape worm in the head which releases a pheromone attractive to cats, so many they catch and rip open the head only worm hits its target!
Laurie Anderson is awesome, isn't she!
Last Thursday I called in my kids to say goodbye to my 20 year old Cat, Nelson. He was lying on a blanket hardly able to walk, only able to take the odd sip of water and skinny as a rake.
Today I'm thinking of renaming him Lazarus because he back to his bastard-cat best self.
I shocked myself by how emotional I got when I thought I was losing him.
So my heart really goes out to you, Gill and all of Molly's human family. RIP Molly. Xx
Cheers Jon! All the best to Lazarus/Nelson - 20 years, wow! That's going some. Molly was also a bag of bones for her last couple of weeks, it was really shocking how suddenly she shrank and how much it changed her.
sad... you have reminded me of Peter Pan and Nanny who was also an old english sheepdog in the story....I lost Lightning aged 12 suddenly suspect poisoning, similar news for this area today here in Liverpool. I still have 1 dog and 4 cats.
Always horrible to hear of poisonings, such a messed-up thing to do.
We have 2 cats, but I have to admit I'm not really a cat person (and am anyway allergic to them - our two live in the barn, where we had hoped they would catch rats, but they stick instead to mice and voles)
Cats don't really like rats, its an odd one an adult rat can kill a cat, and I had this curious incident recently where the two males brought a young rat in, as I approached to capture and release (aiming in my deepest self not to be species'ist) the rat ran towards the cats feet away from mine and eventually one of the cats picked it up like a kitten and took it out. Plus there is a theory that some rats contain a dormant tape worm in the head which releases a pheromone attractive to cats, so many they catch and rip open the head only worm hits its target!
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