 hayc59Im Your HuckleberryPremium
join:2001-02-26
David R.I.P.
kudos:21 | reply to Pretorious
Re: [FYI] Our Pet Memorial Thread Thank you all
@ Ron very sorry for your loss!
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 HFB1217The WizardPremium,ExMod 2000-01
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Camelot
kudos:2 | reply to hayc59
So Sorry I know how you feel they are so small but take up a really big part of your life and heart.
It has been 3 weeks for me and I still feel sad and tearful at times.
Hank
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HFB1217The WizardPremium,ExMod 2000-01
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Camelot
kudos:2 | reply to RonS
She has a been a deep and big part in your life and the loss to you is understood and shared by us as well.
Hank
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Window cat |
Today we had to say goodbye to Ryoohki. With us for 16 years. She had been battling kidney failure for the past 2, and finally could fight no more. We made the hardest choice to end her battle.
She was our daughter's cat, snatched from the wife when we got her. Our daughter was 2 then. So needless to say, it's been a tough day.
Rest now girl, we love you, and will miss you. Give Ranma a happy hello when you see him across the bridge. |
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 KittyMomPremium
join:2005-05-15
Pittsburgh, PA
kudos:8 | So very sorry for your loss. |
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 baddPremium
join:2001-10-04
De Queen, AR
kudos:1 | reply to captokita
Sorry for your loss. |
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| Thanks for the kind words guys. She was a wonderful cat and we miss her dearly. Funny how animals can be such a part of our lives in little ways we seem to take for granted until they're gone and are no longer there for those little things.
Like I said, she was more our daughter's cat, as far as she could call her, and she'd run to bed with her. Did that since she was 2. When our daughter started college and was away from home she became OUR bed cat, and she would then sleep near us in the same way she did her kid (up by your head, on your arm)
Definitely the worst part about pet ownership, be it 1 year or 16. We're down to one cat now, she's 10, and has been VERY clingy/needy since Friday, which is out of character for her. Makes you wonder what they know.......... |
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 richdelbGo Hawks GoPremium
join:2003-01-22
Algonquin, IL | reply to Pretorious
Canon EOS REBEL T2i
100mm 1/200th F11 ISO100
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Not quite.
My wonderful kitten, Orion, who I had for only 9 weeks, was put down this afternoon due to FIP.
Freaking sucks.
The pain is unreal. |
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KittyMomPremium
join:2005-05-15
Pittsburgh, PA
kudos:8 | Rich, I'm sorry seems so inadequate, but I am sorry. That just plain sucks!!! |
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 GeekGirl1Premium
join:2007-01-28
Morrisville, PA
kudos:2 | reply to richdelb
Wow, I can't say how sorry I am. |
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richdelbGo Hawks GoPremium
join:2003-01-22
Algonquin, IL | reply to Pretorious
Thanks folks. This one hurts many times more than anything I have ever experienced before. I am really torn up about Orion. This is just unbelievable. The Vets tell me so, the shelter is dumbfounded... It's something out of a Stephen King book or something. |
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| said by richdelb:Thanks folks. This one hurts many times more than anything I have ever experienced before. I am really torn up about Orion. This is just unbelievable. The Vets tell me so, the shelter is dumbfounded... It's something out of a Stephen King book or something. So very sorry to hear this, but again, I ask, are they SURE it was FIP? If indeed it is, then the shelter you got Orion from is likely infected with it at as well and every cat in there would likely have it. It's a VERY contagious disease, but also is misdiagnosed because positive tests don't mean 100% that the cat HAS it. |
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richdelbGo Hawks GoPremium
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Algonquin, IL | FIP doesn't really work like that. Here is an excellent source or info on FIP: »www.marvistavet.com/html/fip.html |
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HFB1217The WizardPremium,ExMod 2000-01
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Camelot
kudos:2 | reply to richdelb
I know it hurts and can really get to you, LOVE knows no bounds.
They enter into your life and leave a big hole when they have to leave.
Very sorry for your loss it does get better and they will always be with you in your heart with fond memories.
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hayc59Im Your HuckleberryPremium
join:2001-02-26
David R.I.P.
kudos:21 | reply to richdelb
Very sorry for your loss!! |
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 jaykaykay4 Ever YoungPremium,MVM
join:2000-04-13
Scottsdale, AZ
kudos:22 | reply to richdelb
OMG! That sure sucks big time. Who would ever have thunk it? Certainly not I. I am so so sorry. How that can happen 2x in such a short time is almost impossible to believe; so very rare to have happened. I hope the shelter where these kitties came from gets their act cleaned up. |
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 darciliciousCyber LibrarianPremium
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Forest Grove, OR
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It's an infectious disease. Your link says in part:
It is common wherever cats are housed in groups
and it is readily transmitted between cats.
Transmission is typically by contact with infected feces. This means that the litter box is the usual place where infection takes place. This infection is unusual in cats that free-roam outdoors (no litter box) or who live in homes where there is only one cat. The virus enters the new host’s body via the nose and mouth.
Households with fewer than 5 cats eventually spontaneously clear of coronavirus. Households with more than 5 cats virtually never clear of coronavirus.
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richdelbGo Hawks GoPremium
join:2003-01-22
Algonquin, IL
1 edit | reply to Pretorious
The CORONAVIRUS is infectious. FIP is a non contagious mutation of the CORONAVIRUS. The mutation is not shed in the litter box. It's a reaction to the mutation. MOST cats are exposed to the CORONAVIRUS. The vast majority of them never develop FIP.
The very section you quote is referring to the CORONAVIRUS, NOT FIP. Read it again. |
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darciliciousCyber LibrarianPremium
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Forest Grove, OR
kudos:2 | Ah. Thanks! |
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Tiffy in January 1999 | 
Canon PowerShot SX10 IS
5mm 1/500th F5.6 ISO80
Tiffy enjoying snow in 2010 | 
February 2012 |
Before they injected her, I learned that she had lost more weight. She used to weigh right around 11.2 to 10.5 pounds.... about 1.5 years ago when she was diagnosed with the kidney damage, she was down to 9.... 1 week ago, when she went in for her rabies shot, she was 7.2... today, she weighed just 6.5 pounds.
several tears were shed, and I let out a sob or two... but when I got home, I headed out on my 4 mile walk, while wearing an iPod. during the walk, I remembered how good she was to me, and how much I tried to show her I cared.
By the 30 minutes/2 mile point, halfway through the walk, I was fine. Death is a part of life. Haven't really been sad about it other than that first 30 minutes. Sadness is the wrong attitude, I have been pretty reflective, thinking about all kinds of things that have happened in my life.... some nice, some weird, but all things considered, I guess I can't complain..
to be perfectly honest, it bothered me a whole lot more saying goodbye to the dog I didn't really want, than being bedside as my own Mother took her last breaths....
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