Sophia said:
How long did you have that cat and why did you have to do that?
We got him in early September of 1994, and he died on July 3, 2012... He was 18 years old... His name was Abe, named after a logger friend of mine who gave him to us as a kitten, but we always, affectionately, just called him... "Thing".
He developed some form of muscle wasting syndrome, and could hardly move, or even hold his head up while laying down.
Psinter said:
Was it old too and it could not recover from a disease?
Yes Psinter, we went with our vets recommendation... a very sad day....
"Thing" was the fourth cat that my wife and I had to say a final goodbye to...
"Little Dummy 2" was our companion for
19 years, she died on the couch, laying right next to my wife, at 10:30 AM on Christmas day, December, 2009.
She died from kidney failure, and was the third one that we lost...
"Little Dummy 1" was attacked and killed by a predator, probably a hawk or an eagle, maybe a bobcat... I walked and searched for hours and hours, and finally found her on a hill side, less than a half mile from the house... the memory of that horrible day is still hard to think, or even write about. She was less than a year old, and one of the most beautiful cats I'd ever seen.
She was the second one to leave us...
We've been married for 29 years now, and our first cat just disappeared, about 28 years ago, I never found even a trace of her..
Such is life and death, on a ranch in Montana, I guess...?
RonL said:
I firmly believe that indoor pets should be treated almost equal to family...
Although we let our cats out during the the day, they never, never stay out after dark... never!
Yes, the were, and are family to us... we love them all...
Except for the one I never found, the other three are all buried in my wife's flower garden, with little stone cats as markers.....
Yes, and we still have three of 'em, with about the same ridiculous names as the ones that died....

Lol, how about... "Chubo", "Chino", and "Little" ? ...
There, that's my cat story... you know mostly all you need to know about our cats, no? ..

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Oh, wife's flower garden area, with bear... not a good pic of garden, though...