My cat was severly injured sometime today - need some help/advice/support

So sorry for your loss. I'm a cat owner myself - all were stray kittens that needed homes. It seems like a cruel trick that we get so attached when we are destined to part company so soon.

Again, I'm sorry for your loss.

[to myself]

It's never easy tho.

I am not looking for sympathy as my mom was 95, had a good life, but I lost her also earlier this year and I learned..

the best way to slowly get over things like this, there is only one way. You have to keep your mind occupied. Read threads. Make threads. Watch stuff on TV. Talk about it as I am to friends. Go places where others maybe can relate (such as this thread for someone someday) but mainly GET your mind off of it.

But no matter how well I can explain things and as a formally educated engineer, I can think very logicly. But it's a thing of the heart, not the mind.

It takes time. And there is some real pain.

When I lost mom, the hospice people for the county started contacting me and you just talk and they are very good.

Today I got a survey for them in the mail 6 months later. I was gonna throw it but I might just give it flying good marks. They did real good for me. I cried there as I cried here.

So it takes time. The hardest thing is to be alone for some reason altho I have been alone all my life. I am a loner's loner (up until last few years)

And my cat was really never around. And when he did come in he was very often a pain.

But still he was there. I was not completely alone.

That is the thing. I am now completely alone around the house.

Maybe.. I leaned on him as much as he leaned on me.

Maybe I have been leaning on cats since I bought My first lil siamese Sam at age 19 in 1976. I put age 17 down but Sam made it to 18. 76-94

Sam was the man. Or cat. Coolest cat ever.

I think I will have to go get a new boy. It is the only way the heart can go on. Maybe go to the humane society. Maybe a kitten. We'll see.

I prob have to get another boy. You seen all my boys. I guess there is no reason to stop now.

Thank you for checking in. Yes I brought em all in. Each time you have hope. The others were for old age but you always hope you can take em back home. It is tough. Each one tough.

Stray kittens - that is a very nice way to do things. Maybe I'll just get a kitten that needs a home.

My first two cats were siamese kittens, all the rest were strays or from the humane society.

But a kitten really is the way and I think I will return to a kitten. Then he can grow up here rather than somewhere else. That is a big factor.

Thanks and best wishes to you and all your little gibbys.

that is your problem. you are a man with a mind and no heart. you try and avoid emotional pain.

don't be afraid. let emotions crush you. you will be free and liberated as a result.

When you started saying you weren't gonna get another cat, I had a feeling you'd get a new cat,

go get a new cat

cat.

I'm very sorry for your loss

oh Vjo sorry to hear, looks like you knows and love cats, so time to get a new kitty to fill the hole ... hope all is well as well it can be ...

Ok, as a new Yorker, THIS is what i LOVE about you rural folk. LOL I was actually born in the mountains, in a small town, with famrs and chickens and horses, and played in the woods as a kid all day and night, like a freaky mountain man (again, explains everything, I know). So I love crossbows and deers and such. LOL

Vho: Let me know when you're ready for my cute kitty gif collection, I'll post them all here for you, to make you smile and remember why you need to find a new friend when you're ready. Even Teencat will appreciate them (maybe, he ignores me lately. I believe this is due to my creepy admiration for him...)

Music is always a healer - maybe something LOUD and CRANKING to get your extreme feelings out....

Man that's rough.

Don't give up on having pets. Buried 3 cats already but wouldn't give up loving more, have 2 right now

sad thread, sounds like your cat was loved at least and that is more than most people and animals ever had

I'm in MN too, down by the Mall of America, and we have coyotes around our neighborhood. Police have even warned people to keep smaller dogs inside. I saw one jogging down the street at 3am one night.


My sincere condolences for your loss.

You may be right PJ. Sometimes others can see us better than we can see ourselves.

I always think maybe I am being too emotional but maybe not.

Just got off the phone with my brother. He was very supportive. We are real close.

I read him a couple posts incl the one by porno jew. I said this is by a guy named pornojew and we both laughed a little. I mean at the username. Kind of funny. i told him, "this is a really smart guy who tells it like it is and is totally anon, his name is pornojew" hehe

The first thing he told me is what you are all telling me. I have to get another cat. It is who i am. So think I will go down to the humane society and get a kitten before too long. I will let you know

Good one. If I call myself Catman I pretty much better have a cat.

Thank you.

thanks TC, very nice.

I read my brother your post too. I said, "this guy is all the way from Czech. He says i should get another cat too."

My brother is 10 years older than me so he doesnt really get the net.