Smoke request

Lighting now for Oleg.

I'm owned by two cats- a 20 yr old tiger, and a 16 yr old Siamese.

Cats are great survivors- Oleg will hang in there.

My two geriatrics have survived 2 hurricanes, 3-4 live-in "mothers" & 1 wife.

They sleep at leat 20 hrs. a day- and always have each other.

I think they're pretty much indifferent to me, though. No, the Siamese acknowledges me as clan leader.

Because he knows he'll outlive me... He'll be posting here someday, with his own boring diatribes about how cats invented khukuris after the shape of their own, curved, hanshee-like claws.


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Best wishes from Frisky and Mr. Boxer to Oleg. Get well soon!
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Thanks everyone for the kind thoughts and best wishes. Everyone that has posted here has made me feel better about everything. I am afraid that I have to report that Oleg is no longer with us. Today at a little after four he left the world. My heart is heavy but I try to take comfort in the fact that he is no longer in any pain. Thanks again. Mark
 
Mark i'm very sorry that he passed away. It's a tough thing to go through. We personify them so much. We love them and through that they have a soul. They transend just being an animal. Their service to man is not of food or clothing or parasitic intent. They are our friends. More loyal than any creature with just 2 legs. They love us because we care for them. we feed them. we protect them. In return they do the same for us. They become our children's first best friends. They seem to just know when we are sick and just need a fuzzy buddy to curl up with to feel better. Good medicine. They get into so much. They can make you livid and laugh all in the span of 60 seconds. They are our children. It does my heart good to think that perhaps the way we love and cherish our adopted pets is the same way God loves and cherishes us.
Oleg was a good cat and great friend to you, Mark. He may be gone, but your history will always remain. He will always love you. I don't care what the church says. Pets have souls. Pets have personality. Anything that selfless and that grateful to what it has surely must have earned a spot in a better place. My pets are better people than I am.
Once again, i'm very sorry for your loss, Mark. Thank you for keeping us posted. Pet smoke up tonight so that Oleg may find his way to place where acres of mice run...but not too fast, where milk flows like water, and where every couch is a scratching post.
Take care, friend.

Jake
 
Really sorry to hear that man, a pets passing is always incredibly tough. Hurts like hell and takes a long time to heal, but it does, eh? Of course you already know that. Anyways, I'm sorry for your loss.

When I lost my dog someone sent me the URL to some stupid, idiotic Rainbow Bridge sight. all about how our pets pass on and frolic and play and wait to meet us on the other side. Gotta be one of the most asinine childish things I've ever seen. Don't ask me why I'm currently swallowing the lump in my throat thinkin' about it though.
 
I am so sorry Mark.

You will see him again one day, and scratch his chin.

Love is stronger than life.


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There's little enough love around when you need it. That a cat or dog is still your friend when you are really hurting makes it a kindred spirit. I'm sorry for your loss.

Send smoke for a *&%#ing cat? Why the hell not? Hope Oleg appreciates the stuff - I don't read the Devanagari alphabet too good so I don''t know what it is, but it is the Tibetan type without the bamboo center.

And some for you too Mark.
 
Mark, I'm sorry your friend passed away.

I still miss Jake the cat, and it's been 16 years since he passed.




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I'm very sorry to hear of your friends passing. :(

At work there are a group of feral cats. Full grown cats and a litter of kittens. Some I can pet, some only come close enough to get the food I hand out. Most of them will be dead by the end of the week. :( :( There is some sort of sickness wiping them out. Feline lukemia or something. I understand that that's what happens sometimes but I still hate to see them suffer. I can't take them to the vet and couldn't afford the bills even if I could. They are one of the things that keeps me sane at work. Each day I wonder which ones won't come out of the bushes when I whistle. The first time in 15 years this has happened.
The only thing that makes it easier is the cat that is purring in my lap right now was a tiny kitten that I got from this group of feral cats.

Again, I'm sorry to hear of your loss. Give extra attention to Olegs big brother...you'll both feel better for it.
 
Thanks everyone. I tried to drop you all a note with the rep point comments but could not give some of you anymore points right now. So let me say thanks to you all for the kind words and comments. They have helped me and I think your words will help me in the time to come. Healing from the pain and loss will come with time but the good memories of our past will not be forgotten.
 
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