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What photos look happy at first glance but make you immensely sad? My poor little disabled cat. Gone now…..and I miss him so much it hurts every single day. I just hope he knew how much I loved him…my precious little friend…
My poor little boy was brain-damaged at birth and within a year he couldn`t walk. He was my son`s cat but when they were hit with a very serious health situation he came to live with me….and i couldn`t give him back. I bought nappies for him for his little accidents in the day and night. But regularly through the day i would lay him on his side on some newspaper and he knew he had to do his business.
At mealtimes I had to hold him over his bowl so he could eat in a normal position. At night I wrapped him in a blanket in his big bed. He loved his handful of bedtime treats.
In fine weather I put him in a big dog cage in the garden with his bed. I was scared of hawks or crows harming him. But if I was in the garden he used to love lying on the grass rubbing his face against it.
But inevitably he grew older and his health deteriorated. He had a terrible diagnosis from the vet…and he lost his spark and was clearly suffering. I had to make that awful decision.
The first thing I look at when I wake every morning is this photograph. And at night this is the last thing I see before I close my eyes.
One day his photograph will be the last thing I see….before I meet him again...
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In a year when Mad Cow disease was discovered, and ‘downer’ cattle were more suspect than other animals of possibly having the disease, I called the [I think it was] chairman of the Senate agricultural committee, and explained to him what downer cattle were, how they would be used as cutters and canners — that is, used for soups, and how the prospect of Mad Cow getting into the food chain would be lessened if downer cattle were prohibited from being dragged to slaughter. Downer cattle — as well as feeding meat and bone meal to cattle, as I explained… Read more »
I understand perfectly how a human being can form a bond with an animal. Yet with the cat described, I would have had the cat euthanized early on. the cat may well have brought out some noble part of Art Miller’s character, but I would not have countenanced the animal having to live such a life. It does not make sense to me in the grand scheme of things. I knew where Animal Control, Greene County, Ohio disposed of the wonderful dogs, pets, in a dumpster to be dumped in a landfill. The dumpster weekly would be filled with 20… Read more »