My cat died :(

[purbeast0]

So I just got a call from my mom that our cat died.

Onyx

It was very sad how it happened too

My brother was over at my moms house and the cat was all happy and playing with them and hopped up on a table. My brother was then talking about how the cat never really liked him and that if he held her she would always try to get out of his hands. Then he asked my mom how old Onyx was and she went and got his 'birth certificate' (some paper she had that had her birth on it).

As she was gone my brother picked her up and she wanted out so he put her down, and as she was getting down, her back legs gave out and she had what my mom said looked like a seizure, and stopped breathing

Now my brother feels really bad about the whole thing too because he feels like he killed her.

But she was old. She lived a long cat life, 16 years, was born in March of 1993. She was one of those cats that loved to ram her head and rub her head on people and she would do it hard. Last weekend I had to feed my moms pets while she was on vacation and the last memory I have of her is after I fed her and was watching the NCAA tourney, she came up to me on the couch and started 'headbutting' me and purring. My mom asked me if I wanted to come say bye to her before they bury her, but in all honesty, I don't really want my last memory of her to be of her dead. I tihnk I prefer to remember her happy when I was feeding her.

I lived with the cat for 14 of those 16 years and this is really the only pet i've cared for from it's birth till it's death so it's pretty sad. This is one reason I personally do not know if I want to ever get pets of my own.

R.I.P. Onyx, you will be missed.

 

[MovingTarget]

Poor kitteh.

 

[jman19]

Sorry purbeast

 

[MotF Bane]

 

[purbeast0]

Originally posted by: jman19
Sorry purbeast

heh funny thing too ...

my name actually came from the term "pure beast" which we used to use way back when I was in middle school, like when someone was good at basketball they were a "beast" at basketball, and when someone was really good they were a "pure beast"

I actually made the term purbeast as a play on "pure beast" because i like cats a lot

 

[Capt Caveman]

Sorry man, just went thru it last week with my dog.

 

[lxskllr]

You have my sympathies purbeast0 :'^(

Losing a pet's tough, but it's worth having them all the same. I recommend you get another one after a bit. Pets make great companions, and they won't stab you in the back like people will :^)

 

[Pepsei]

my cat is getting there too.... when he was attacked by a dog earlier this year, i thought nothing when i drop 3k to fix him up at the pet emergency room. hopefully i can have 2-3 more years with him.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

 

[purbeast0]

Originally posted by: lxskllr
You have my sympathies purbeast0 :'^(

Losing a pet's tough, but it's worth having them all the same. I recommend you get another one after a bit. Pets make great companions, and they won't stab you in the back like people will :^)

well i moved out of my moms like 2 years ago and i'm in an apartment so we can't have a pet here. i do want one though eventually when I can get one, but at times like this it makes me second guess that cause you know you will outlive your pet.

and my mom has another cat and a dog, and the cat has diabetes and is kind of a handfull so i don't tihnk she will be getting another cat any time soon since the other one is diabetic.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Really sad, sorry to hear of your loss. looked like a great cat!

 

[Jeff7]

I've got to wonder how long my one cat, Beverly, back home has got left.
Her brother died about two years ago due to complications from what was likely a stroke. He started having seizures, and ended up dying in his sleep.
They were both born in August 1992.

My mom has said that Beverly's slowed down a bit in the past few years, but she's still always the first one awake, and is always helpful, hurriedly "leading" my mom around in her normal morning routine, and still always itching to go outside and visit doom upon whatever small animals happen to visit the deck.

Originally posted by: Chiefcrowe
Really sad, sorry to hear of your loss. looked like a great cat!

In that pic, he looks more like, "I'm trying to sleep here. If you flash that thing in my face one more time....."

But then, that's just how cats are. Or me as well, on a weekday morning.

 

[JaYp146]

R.I.P. Kitteh ...

 

[AlienCraft]

Originally posted by: lxskllr
You have my sympathies purbeast0 :'^(

Losing a pet's tough, but it's worth having them all the same. I recommend you get another one after a bit. Pets make great companions, and they won't stab you in the back like people will :^)

QFT, and

's for kitties.

 

[dennilfloss]

Losing a pet is so hard...

 

[purbeast0]

i just talked to my brother and he is just telling me how weird the whole tihng was...

he said she was purring and rubbing up against him all happy literally 10 seconds before she had this seizure type tihng. he said she was acting strange for like 30 seconds then just stopped and died

he tihnks she had a heart attack but he just tihnks it's so weird because she has no health issues at all and was just a happy cat, then keeled over

 

[rasczak]

sorry to hear. on a side note, 1993 was when i graduated high school. now i feel old.

 

[T9D]

Originally posted by: rasczak
sorry to hear. on a side note, 1993 was when i graduated high school. now i feel old.

Same here. Cept I don't feel old.

That's a long time to have a cat.

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

It sucks to have a pet die. I had both of my cats go in one summer - one ran away/got eaten, the other died. Had some sad dreams of both for awhile.

 

[cliftonite]

RIP

 

[jlee]

 

[Blieb]

 

[Perknose]

Went over to Lake Galena at Peace Valley Park today for a walk and surprised myself by getting all emotional as this was where I regularly went for walks with my dear departed doggie Cinnamon, now 2 and 1/2 years gone.

Stopped at a friend's house on the way back when I saw her car there (she lives on the lake) and as we were talking, out of nowhere she pulled out a stack of pics including several of Cinnamon with her and I and her two doggies.

The Cinnamon Girl was a fine a pup as anyone could wish for, a real lady who never, ever needed to be on a leash, ever. She could go anywhere and blend in and just hang, and I took her everywhere, including church, where she was loved by all. She and I started the tradition of congregant dogs at our church.

OP, like many others here, I know how your feeling right now.

 

[sixone]

Sorry for your loss, OP.

 

[IronWing]

Bummer.