buddy the cat died yesterday :-(
i just wrote some emails and since i'm sad I’m just copyandpasting.
We have had my roommate Juan's sister Ada's cat Buddy staying with us
for almost two years, and he died yesterday. He was fine in the
morning, and then in the evening I found him lying there stiff and
dead. It was quite a shock. I found out later Ben, Ada's boyfriend,
said Buddy seemed kind of lethargic around 2pm. I saw Buddy around
5pm and he seemed normal, and then I was reading and then went
downstairs at 9pm and he was dead. We figured he was poisoned, but
don't know by what. He had gone outside for a while in the morning
and might have eaten something, but we have no idea. Last year he got
poisoned by antifreeze, and the people at the vet's office thought it
was intentional, that someone in the neighborhood was poisoning cats.
After that we haven't let the cats out as often (I have 3 cats of my
own,too), but they love it outside so much we relent sometimes. The
other cats are fine.
So we tried to get a hold of Ada and she came over around midnight
and we had a funeral, and wrapped Buddy in some nice green paisley
cloth and put a new shiny collar on him that Ada had bought recently,
and buried him with a new fish toy Ada had also recently bought. It
was very emotional and we didn't get to sleep until 1 or 2 am. I'm
pretty out of it today, and just depressed. Buddy was a sweet nice
cat, and I really feel sorry for Ada.
Buddy is buried next to two other cats, Stella, my beloved
kitty who died last fall, and Pepper an old old cat we adopted and he
died in the 1990s. It's a flower and herb bed and last night it
smelled like the peppermint and cilantro we were standing on. Buddy
had some behavioral issues, like he kept peeing on the floor every
day, but despite it all he was so sweet and affectionate. He loved
drinking out of the water faucet and yesterday morning I turned on the
water for him and he licked my hand and it made my heart melt, he did
things like that a lot, just nice little affectionate touches. Also,
he'd put his paws around your neck when you picked him up, a nice hug.
i looked on the web about things that can poison pets, and it was
boggling--not just rat poison and antifreeze and all but a lot of
foods we eat, medicines, plants, household cleaners, eeek.
i think it was probably an accident, and maybe his system was
weakened from being poisoned before. i don't know. :-(
We have had my roommate Juan's sister Ada's cat Buddy staying with us
for almost two years, and he died yesterday. He was fine in the
morning, and then in the evening I found him lying there stiff and
dead. It was quite a shock. I found out later Ben, Ada's boyfriend,
said Buddy seemed kind of lethargic around 2pm. I saw Buddy around
5pm and he seemed normal, and then I was reading and then went
downstairs at 9pm and he was dead. We figured he was poisoned, but
don't know by what. He had gone outside for a while in the morning
and might have eaten something, but we have no idea. Last year he got
poisoned by antifreeze, and the people at the vet's office thought it
was intentional, that someone in the neighborhood was poisoning cats.
After that we haven't let the cats out as often (I have 3 cats of my
own,too), but they love it outside so much we relent sometimes. The
other cats are fine.
So we tried to get a hold of Ada and she came over around midnight
and we had a funeral, and wrapped Buddy in some nice green paisley
cloth and put a new shiny collar on him that Ada had bought recently,
and buried him with a new fish toy Ada had also recently bought. It
was very emotional and we didn't get to sleep until 1 or 2 am. I'm
pretty out of it today, and just depressed. Buddy was a sweet nice
cat, and I really feel sorry for Ada.
Buddy is buried next to two other cats, Stella, my beloved
kitty who died last fall, and Pepper an old old cat we adopted and he
died in the 1990s. It's a flower and herb bed and last night it
smelled like the peppermint and cilantro we were standing on. Buddy
had some behavioral issues, like he kept peeing on the floor every
day, but despite it all he was so sweet and affectionate. He loved
drinking out of the water faucet and yesterday morning I turned on the
water for him and he licked my hand and it made my heart melt, he did
things like that a lot, just nice little affectionate touches. Also,
he'd put his paws around your neck when you picked him up, a nice hug.
i looked on the web about things that can poison pets, and it was
boggling--not just rat poison and antifreeze and all but a lot of
foods we eat, medicines, plants, household cleaners, eeek.
i think it was probably an accident, and maybe his system was
weakened from being poisoned before. i don't know. :-(
