Our cat Emily passed today........

[bluzman61]

She died in her sleep here at home. At least she went peacefully. She was at least 17 years old, we will miss her greatly.

 

[Darkwind]

My condolences. That hurts.

 

[Hafar1014]

She died in her sleep here at home. At least she went peacefully. She was at least 17 years old, we will miss her greatly.

My heart goes out to you. I have had 8 cats. One is left hes 19

 

[mudwhistle]

She died in her sleep here at home. At least she went peacefully. She was at least 17 years old, we will miss her greatly.

Sorry to hear that. I lost 3 cats and a wife in the last year. All of them to cancer.

 

[Lockback]

My sincere condolences. I've had far too many pass away over the years and always think, "I'll never get another one. It's too hard to say goodbye."
And then I always get another one.
Hang in there.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

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Condolences, my friend.

Meow, Emily. Wait just on the other side of the rainbow bridge.

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[toobfreak]

She died in her sleep here at home. At least she went peacefully. She was at least 17 years old, we will miss her greatly.

My profound sympathies. 17 was very old for a cat, at least she had the good fortune to pass away in her sleep and not go through a long period of suffering.

 

[skye]

Sorry to hear

 

[JLW]

I am sorry to hear about her passing. I know the passing of a beloved pet can be very painful. You have my condolences.

 

[ChristisKing]

Man that is such a hard and unbearable pain to lose a fur baby. I know from past experiences as I've had many pets over my lifetime and the only thing that I don't like about them is that they don't live forever. My girl Jessie is about thirteen years old now (she was a stray feline so we don't know for sure) and I already dread the day of losing her, but at least you can be happy that she went peacefully as toobfreak already stated. RIP Emily. I know that you were well loved and still are.

 

[toobfreak]

My girl Jessie is about thirteen years old now (she was a stray feline so we don't know for sure) and I already dread the day of losing her,

At 13, a cat can die any time now really. That is a long full life for an outdoor cat. If you see the cat doing something strange, like piss in the corner or some other innocuous thing you might ordinarily just yell at them for thinking they are just being trouble, be careful it isn't a symptom of something bigger.

I had a cat once who I caught peeing under my electronic work bench on the carpet instead of going downstairs. I thought she was just being a cat and scolded her. Turns out she was actually suffering a severe disability and was trying to tell me she was just too issued to try to go down steps anymore.

Animals are very good at not letting on about sickness and illness and other things.

 

[Lockback]

At 13, a cat can die any time now really. That is a long full life for an outdoor cat. If you see the cat doing something strange, like piss in the corner or some other innocuous thing you might ordinarily just yell at them for thinking they are just being trouble, be careful it isn't a symptom of something bigger.

I had a cat once who I caught peeing under my electronic work bench on the carpet instead of going downstairs. I thought she was just being a cat and scolded her. Turns out she was actually suffering a severe disability and was trying to tell me she was just too issued to try to go down steps anymore.

Animals are very good at not letting on about sickness and illness and other things.

I had one orange tabby who lived to be 19.
I had another orange tabby who lived to be 17.
And now I have another. And I hope he outlives me. Because I can't bear to put another one down.
He's such a special buddy.

 

[ChristisKing]

At 13, a cat can die any time now really. That is a long full life for an outdoor cat.

She's strictly an indoor cat and she's pretty healthy other than the fact that it's like pulling teeth to get her to eat anything at times as she's funny like that. Some days she'll eat all of her food and other days she hardly won't eat anything.


What's really weird is sometimes won't eat in the kitchen but she'll eat in the hallway, living room, or in bed. Thankfully she isn't messy so that part isn't a problem but this just started out of the blue a few months ago. She's still eating though at least she's just weird sometimes.

 

[toobfreak]

I had one orange tabby who lived to be 19.
I had another orange tabby who lived to be 17.
And now I have another. And I hope he outlives me. Because I can't bear to put another one down.
He's such a special buddy.

Yep, I know all about that. If you get a cat that lives to be 17 or 19, you are doing good, that is close to top life for a cat. Maybe in some rare instance, you might get one to live to 22. Usually, only cats kept in house 100% ever live that old. More common is from about 13-15 years old. My cats were always house cats with free reign of the outside. They were free to explore and sew their wild oats. Then once they had their flings, I had them fixed and they hung around a lot more but were still free to go out.

I remember this one cat, he could be a block away doing who knows what and if I wanted him, I could go to the kitchen window and call his name, he'd hear me and a minute or two later he would show up. He knew if I was calling that he had to come, his ticket was punched and it was time to go in.

 

[toobfreak]

She's strictly an indoor cat and she's pretty healthy other than the fact that it's like pulling teeth to get her to eat anything at times as she's funny like that.

She probably has years yet to live then.

Some days she'll eat all of her food and other days she hardly won't eat anything.

I've had cats like that. I tried dried food, moist food, canned food, box food. They have better food available today then years ago. I even tried fresh and cooked regular people food. The only thing I ever figured out is that the best thing I could do is not overfeed an animal, give them what they need, not what they want.

Of course, I threw in there the occasional snack! And we cannot forget a little catnip on a throw rug once in a while. Naturally, every Christmas, my cats were always remembered by St. Nick under the Christmas tree!

Cats absolutely dig Christmas morning when everyone is opening their presents, ribbons, paper, boxes, it is a big event.

 

[Ringo]

Animals are very good at not letting on about sickness and illness and other things.

And if they can, they leave when death comes to them. I don't know, maybe feeling very vulnerable, they want to hide far away from the danger they sense.

 

[egp320i]

She died in her sleep here at home. At least she went peacefully. She was at least 17 years old, we will miss her greatly.

go out at home vs a vet is a better way, that's 17 years of love an affection which is actually very good
enjoy the memories, photo's, that's all you have now, snapshot in time

 

[egp320i]

She's strictly an indoor cat and she's pretty healthy other than the fact that it's like pulling teeth to get her to eat anything at times as she's funny like that. Some days she'll eat all of her food and other days she hardly won't eat anything.


What's really weird is sometimes won't eat in the kitchen but she'll eat in the hallway, living room, or in bed. Thankfully she isn't messy so that part isn't a problem but this just started out of the blue a few months ago. She's still eating though at least she's just weird sometimes.

I had a pure flame point champion line Himalayian who was such a sweet boy, so mellow, ice blue eyes

around 14 his tooth went rotten for some reason, extracted and he did not want to eat, he refused so he withered away to the point the vet could not change his mind so he he was let go

this was crushing to me, he could have ate soft food for another few years but just rebelled, typical male

 

[ChristisKing]

I had a pure flame point champion line Himalayian who was such a sweet boy, so mellow, ice blue eyes

around 14 his tooth went rotten for some reason, extracted and he did not want to eat, he refused so he withered away to the point the vet could not change his mind so he he was let go

this was crushing to me, he could have ate soft food for another few years but just rebelled, typical male

Sorry to hear it.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

I was adopted a year ago by a 16 year old car given three months to live. He just had his annual check up. The vet gave him only three months to live.