(01-26-2016, 09:39 PM)skipper1 Wrote: Hello all, Just wanted to say to Rose i am sorry for your loss..I just lost my cat two month's ago so i can relate.The vet told me 13 year's ago to put samm cat down because he had feline aid's...I said hell no..she told me he wouldn't live long...Well he lived a good life and gave me great pleasure for all those year's..When you live alone you get really attached to them...Anyway i just got another one from the pound and so it start's all over....Thank you Skipper. I am glad to hear your vet was wrong all those years ago. Â I completely understand how attached you can get and did get - but glad you are feeling up to starting again with a new friend. Â Sometimes that is the best way we can honour the animal we have lost, I believe that. And our pets wouldn't want us to be sad and alone, that's what our animals are there to prevent. Â I wish you all the very best with your new cat.
Hi y'all, I am making a very late appearance for me, at least. Today I had another loss, one of my two indoor fish died. He got ill suddenly only on Wednesday and I rushed off to the shop to get him some medicine and spent a long time online trying to find out what else I could try. But I have always found that once a fish is ill, that is it - you never get to save them. And today, he started floating at the top of his tank on his side, looking terrible. I thought I would have to euthanize him, the only kind thing to do, people say - but I have always found it really counter-intuitive because you spend your whole life trying to do things to look after your pet and keep them alive, so then to actively kill them seems too painful. Â I said to myself I'd take a decision when I came back from walking the dogs. And when I walked back in, I saw he had already gone, sparing me the pain of having to send him to sleep and death.
Lots of people, even those who understand about losing a cat or a dog, don't get the emotional investment you can have in a fish, but I only had the two, they are/were huge and I had them for a number of years now. They recognise me when I come to the tank, get all excited because they know food is going in - a lot like my dogs! - and quite evidently have some sort of companionship thing going on as they would always be resting together in the tank and leaping about in the water together. I used to look at them and think what happy lives they had and how lucky I was to have managed to keep them alive (keeping fish, even fancy goldfish like mine, can be tricky).  So it's another sad day, right on top of the last one just a few days ago when our cat died.
At least my sons don't care particularly for the fish, so they won't feel the loss.
Anyway, even in my sadness today, the news about Roses' grandson gave me a huge smile. Â I remember so well how absolutely magical it is to have a newborn baby in your arms. Â Don't tell my sons (they are only 17 and 14!) but I can't wait for them to make me a grandma! Â Way to go, Roses. Â Enjoy every moment of it.
Big hello to everyone and hope the weekend will be a happy and pain-free one for you all.