Bad Day - (cat haters, don't waste your time)

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rlinger

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No one else today I spoke with seems to care that much but I do. I wish I was younger. When I was younger I was colder or at least more removed. So here I am minding my own business and I take a little stray kitten in just to protect it from kids that are too young and might accidentally step on it or whatever. The mother of this kitten had been killed by a dog. The other two kittens had died and then there was this third I took in for a short enough while to get it litter box trained and on solid food so as to then give it to the pet shop for good home finding.

That was Sunday past. Monday afternoon I take the little fart to the local pet shop and am told too young yet; another 3 to 4 weeks. WELL - okay. Don't like it but okay. The little rascal eats good. It eats real good. Acts lonely but always has an appetite. I figure it acts lonely because moms' gone and the siblings are gone. I feel for it but I can't just play with it all day long. I am not mom. Now comes Wednesday morning at about 6 AM. I get up and feed the little turd. Eats great. All seems okay except that he craps all over the house and I continue to have to clean after him. Okay 6 o'clock feeding is done. I put the little feller in his bed. I go back to bed. I get up he looks asleep in his bed. I pet his little head. Nothin. I pick him up. He is dead.

I have had a bad day. He had a worse day.

rlinger
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He was warm, his belly was full, and went to sleep in his bed. It could have been a worse way to end. You did good, rlinger.
 
It was a sad hole in the ground I had to dig this past afternoon. When alive, those little innocent fury eyes looking up at me. Lord its tough to shake. I didn't even want this kitten. I don't need that extra burdon. I have two already. I just wanted to get this one ready for pet shop. He was a sweet little fart.

rlinger
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I'm sorry. :( I wish there was more I could say, but reading that just makes me sad too. You did the best you could.
 
if there is a god-you showed him you belong with your kindness to a stray cat-

my moms friend found some cats in a bag years ago,very small kittens-my mom took care of one and it lived ,never got much bigger than your fist,crazy as heck-it think its 13 years old or more by now
 
I would tell you that God put that little kitten right where he needed to be for his last day, so he wouldn't be so alone, Roger. Find comfort in the trust and responsibility you were given.

Now we know that sometimes angels of mercy look like a knifemaker in WV.
 
One time in Germany, my kids brought to me a VERY small kitty. They said it was crying and hiding under a dumpster on the base. Its wee eyes were barely open. I went to the pet store in Kaiserslautern and bought some kitty formula and a small baby kitty bottle with little baby kitty nipples. I nusred that kitten back to health and probably saved her life. She was hours from death for sure.

So I can relate.

I'm a hunter, but a small part of me dies every time I shoot a deer or even a squirrel. I am a fisherman, but every time I take a trout home I feel like I have just robbed God of one of his glittering gems in the brook.

Good for you, Rog. Good for you. You have had the chance to know another one of God's creatures if but for only a short time. :thumbup:
 
Poor lil thing. My guess is that it was either malnourished from lack of its mother's milk when you got it, or it had some other serious internal problem that did not present itself. My parents breed cats and sometimes, kittens just die and theres not a whole lot you can do but feel badly and hope you made them comfy while they were here. Sounds like you did more than any other living thing on earth was willing to do for the lil guy, so that is a good thing no matter how bad it feels.
 
Everyone here has already said it better than I'm able to, but: You did good. You did what you could, when you could, and all you could. Nobody could fault you for that.
 
it don't take long to get atached to one of those furballs does it Roger..ask me how I know :rolleyes: thats the way I want to go, full belly and in my sleep...
 
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