Reasons to Cry Like a Baby
Posted by hotcooknmama on Jul 05, 2011 · Member since Sep 2009 · 848 posts
("frown" didn't seem adequate)
I had to put my sweet black dog to sleep yesterday... knew it was coming-- she was 14, & had been treated for lymphoma for the past several months-- but it just never gets any easier. We were friends a long damn time, and I miss her very much. Pics & FB eulogy here: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.179450365448242.45816.100001498387941.
Many of the 2-legged creatures in my3-D world fail to understand the sadness magnitude of this event... like, "that's too bad, oh well she was old"... then I kick them in the shins/ balls, and go back to bed.
Cyberhugs needed.
Yabbit
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Sorry to keep talking about this, but I need somewhere to put it:
It's worse than we thought. It's not detached, it's torn. He saw the specialist again today. They will put gas in his eye? eye socket? and do the surgery and he will be blind in that eye for about a week until the gas dissipates. Full recovery time, 6 weeks to 2 mos.
Ugh.
Yabbit
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yabbit,
I finally saw this. Do you have a surgery date yet?
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Yes. He is admitted on the 9th and has surgery on the 10th. Hopefully home sometime on the 11th.
I just now saw this... Yabbit! I'm sooooooooooo sending you and the other Mr. Yabbit ( ;) ) positive and awesome energies!! :)
Thanks, dude. I mean that, now.
Thanks, dude. I mean that, now.
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I don't even know how to preface this.
One of the kittens I trapped, the one I gave to my mom, died.
My mom's never been great with vet care and the like, so I had her finally schedule an appointment for her cat's teeth before she could get the kitten, Rocco (her cat has had a bad tooth abscess for a few months). Anyway, it's just something that's always been an issue with both my parents, growing up.
Rocco was doing well, playing with her cats, etc, and apparently was hanging out on windowsills. A couple months ago, the management at her apartment did a power-washing of the windows, and I guess never affixed the screens on the windows properly afterwards. So my mom found one morning that the screen was missing on an open window (one of the 100-degree days here, and she doesn't have AC, so the windows were open), and Rocco was missing too. She went looking for him, didn't find him, left food outside her door. He came to eat it a couple times, but ran off when she tried to get him. She looked all over for him, and heard that other people had seen him. She kept feeding, he kept eating, but she couldn't catch him. At one point she was looking for him for hours, took a 20 minute break, and came back to see he had been hit by a car in her alleyway.
Anyway, this is all really upsetting to me... on the one hand, I expected my mom to be irresponsible in some way, yet this is one of those things that happens no matter what. I wanted to be upset with her, but I can't find a way. And he was just a really sweet cat. He was almost immediately comfortable with me, and was getting along well by the time I left him there the other week. Plus, there's this whole thing with Teddy (the white kitten I posted a pic of a while ago), whose new owner never got back to me about how he's doing, which concerns me because the receptionist at the clinic said that he thinks the owner left him in her car for six hours until she went home that day, in the 100-degree heat, since I saw her bring the carrier to a car, and apparently she left six hours later. I've had it in the back of my mind that she might not be getting back to me not just because she's flaky (I tried to meet with her before several times to give her Teddy, only for something to come up for her), or because he actually was left in the car and died. And now this.
Now I don't even feel like trying to adopt out Mimi (the one kitten I still have). I hate getting emotionally invested in these animals and having stuff like this happen, and so soon.
It's so weird. I knew this little guy, he was getting along so well, and was even taking to my mom and her cats by the time I left that day I dropped him off, and now he's dead. I can't even grasp it.
Yeah...
fb ~ I am very sorry. Rococo's passing just sounds like a freak series of events.... :( I hope flake girl is just being flaky. Don't let these two things spoil your much needed catch, castrate and adopt efforts.
I'm sorry, for you and Rocco and Teddy. I hope the new person is just being a flake. If not, without it happening right there you may not be able to turn her in for animal cruelty. She makes me upset, either way.
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That sucks, I'm so sorry... You did your best for them, though, and that's all we can do. I hope kitten Teddy is ok... (hug)
I'm sorry, faunablues. :-\
-Josh
sorry, fb!!! <3
i'm crying because of this stupid dance shit. she said she let the girl with tattoos on the team because we all fought for us to stay a team, but after her, no one will be allowed to have visible tattoos. she said she let her on, despite her tattoos because it would be disrespectful to deny her the chance to be on the team because of her tattoos even though she fought for the team. i fought for the team. i was the main one fighting. yet i'm being denied the chance to be on the team because of my hair. and then she said she doesn't want to set a double standard. this is the biggest double standard i've EVER fucknig seen.
I'm so sorry fb. :'(
fb - I also wanted to say that we do the best we can. You could try to save the kitties and provide homes for them or do nothing. You got involved and cared for them. You did it right on your side and I hope it doesn't dissuade you from helping more cats. They need to you care, even if sometimes other people get it wrong.
vh - That's really unfair. Have you decided what you are going to do? Could you use a temporary wash-out dye for competition days?
yeah i told her i'd get spray color. it's gonna look fucking retarded and it's gonna be even more noticeable than pink, but whatever. the man wins.
oh fb that is terrible, poor Rocco! :' (
I don't even know what to say...
sorry FB,
some people just shouldn't be allowed to own animals... i'd say the vast majority actually... how unfortunate :(
So sorry FB!
I've been feeling the same lately. I was feeding a feral cat at work that hung around the building. I was working with someone in my department who does animal rescue and she arranged to get a trap from one of her contacts so we could trap the cat and get her spayed/tested/shots. I found out one day that another woman at the company was feeding her too. After we were able to trap the cat the other woman agreed to take her. I couldn't because I already have 3 cats at home (one more than I should per my apartment lease) and didn't have a place to keep her separate from my other cats while she healed. I assumed this other woman was taking her home to be a house cat. I asked her the other day how the cat was doing and she told me that the cat is missing. Apparently she took her home to be a barn cat and the coyotes in her back yard caught and killed the cat. The same thing happened to a couple kittens people gave her too. I was so upset. I can't believe the woman took the cat home and knowingly pet her in a situation that was dangerous when she was still healing. If I'd known she was taking the cat to be a barn cat I'd have taken her home anyway.
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