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I love animals… I have never lived in a household that didnt have pets and I feel my life is richer for having them around. Unfortunately I lost one of my cats last Friday… her name was penny her sister tuppence is sat beside me as I type this thread…. I have not had a nights sleep since penny died as tuppence yowls in the night obviously missing her sister…. she is OK if I get up and fuss her and i’m just hoping time will heal and I will get a good nights sleep soon.
I have lovely memories of penny, and I wondered if you all have pet memories you would like to share…….. by the way… tuppence says Hi :D
I think people mourn pets harder and its only natural. Pets dont bad mouth you, feck you over and are always happy to see you. So when a pet dies there are no bad memories (even if your dog chewed your fav shoes – end of day its just a dog and nos no better)
People feel silly when they cry over loosing a pet where as i think its perfectly ok.
Feel better soon Mrs T. and give tuppance extra rubs from me xx.
A pet is part of the family, they make more difference to your daily life than you realise until they’re gone and there’s a gaping hole. It’s natural to grieve, in fact I’ll admit that I have grieved more for my pets than some humans I’ve known!
I lost one of my cats, Frankie, suddenly back in April/May this year. Sophie is the younger cat and had always had Frankie around. Like your Tuppence, she wandered around the house looking for Frankie and crying out, then after a couple of weeks it was as if she suddenly just accepted that Frankie had gone and stopped looking. She’s now happily settled into life as the only cat and seems quite happy.
I still miss Frankie, especially on warm days when she would have been in the garden with us, sunning herself, on her back, legs akimbo, with us calling her a wanton floozy. :lol:
15 years ago I lost my dog, a white german shepherd who’d shared my home for 12 years. He listened to my problems and never judged; he saw off an intruder who tried to hide in our house while we were in bed, chasing him into the arms of the waiting police; he protected me from a partner who became violent; he was my rock. Long walks, him running into corn fields after rabbits so all I could see was the tip of his ears and tail, the look of sheer joy when he came back covered in corn silk, the walks around the lake that was close to our home in the winter and him trying to catch snowballs and the look of bemusement when they disintegrated into nothing…after 15 years I still miss him.
Hugs to you and Tuppence Mrs T :)
*best not to comment on this thread* :lol:
@kent f OBE wrote:
*best not to comment on this thread* :lol:
But you just did :wink: :lol:
In the late 90s I had a beautiful German Shepherd who was called Chester. He died when he was only 30 months old from Leukaemia – he was a lovely dog but was the bain of my ex husbands life coz he was a one person dog <3
I once had a pet, I still can’t decide if I miss having one or not. I used to have to get home on time to feed it. In the evenings it would lay on the sofa gently snoring after having been fed and watered. On a good day it would stay out all night and on a bad day it drank my wine and stuffed all my chocolates……… on second thoughts, thank god for the person who invented divorce. Bless you King Henry VIII :twisted:
Awww some lovely stories… thanks all :D Kent you would have loved penny… any of my friends who disliked cats… she made a beeline for them… she was white and fluffy and usually those friends went home white and fluffy too… :D
@camel_blue wrote:
I once had a pet, I still can’t decide if I miss having one or not. I used to have to get home on time to feed it. In the evenings it would lay on the sofa gently snoring after having been fed and watered. On a good day it would stay out all night and on a bad day it drank my wine and stuffed all my chocolates……… on second thoughts, thank god for the person who invented divorce. Bless you King Henry VIII :twisted:
Ha ha Camel! …. naughty :shock:
I’ve sat here for a while reading the posts on this thread……..thinking about what i was going to post myself…….having thought about the things i want to write about, i find myself unable to type……the event in my mind is still raw, quite upsetting and one that will stay with me, just me, forever.
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