Oh, how very very sweet and sad. I'm sitting here at my work desk tearing up. I lost my boy Dusty two and a half years ago and I think about him every day. Pet grief is insanely hard, and it's just so awful when they're sick and you watch them get worse and worse. Dealing with his rapid health decline was genuinely the worst couple months of my life. I had to make the decision for the both of us tbh to let him go peacefully at the vet, because neither of us could fight anymore. I'll never forget the last goodbye I said to him before he went <3
Dipper passed away yesterday. He was ready. He was tired, but I wasn’t.”
Ugh that quote made me tear up. I lost my 19 and half year old baby in December. I got her as a kitten and I was there until the end at the vet's office.
Pumpkin was so weak and tired at the end, but she always made sure to walk up and greet me when I got home. Cats love us so much, like she didn't have to pretend to be well. I told her it was okay to let go, but I think she knew I wasn't ready.
Even at the vet's she was walking around my feet to show she was okay. By the time she had her ivy and gotten ready for it, she had accepted it. It only took 5 seconds for her heart to stop after the injection.
I miss her so much and grief comes in waves. I didn't realize how deep and mutual are love for each other was until it was the end.
They do so much for us even at the end. My cat took a turn while I was out of town and I know she waited for me to get home so we could have one final night together. She was so weak and couldn’t eat but she was still so happy to see me.
It's been nearly six years since I had to put my previous cat to sleep. I still find myself tearing up at times over him, he was such a good cat. The grief is still there, and sometimes a wave comes up over me.
My current cat is also excellent, but in a different way, so I will likely also fall to pieces over him when the time comes.
Our family dog passed away a little over a year ago, she was ultimately my parents dog but we had a special bond after I took care of her when she was 3 after getting a stick impaled in her chest and almost died for 2 weeks while my parents went on vacation. She lived to be 13 and the last year of her life I was living back at my parents house with my dog because I had a house fire. She was put down 2 weeks after I moved back into my house, but the weekend before I had gone over to get some of my stuff, and it was just me and her and I could tell she had been worried and wondered were I had gone and was happy to see me, I really think she was waiting for me to see I was ok because not even a week later my parents had her put down in the house. I couldn’t be there because I had to work but I knew, I started crying at 9:13am at work and I just knew she was gone and 5 min later I got a text from my dad saying she had passed
It’s so hard losing a pet especially when you are the type that loves them with your whole heart. I lost my cat Nadia 2 years ago and I still think about her every day.
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Ugh that quote made me tear up. I lost my 19 and half year old baby in December. I got her as a kitten and I was there until the end at the vet's office.
Pumpkin was so weak and tired at the end, but she always made sure to walk up and greet me when I got home. Cats love us so much, like she didn't have to pretend to be well. I told her it was okay to let go, but I think she knew I wasn't ready.
Even at the vet's she was walking around my feet to show she was okay. By the time she had her ivy and gotten ready for it, she had accepted it. It only took 5 seconds for her heart to stop after the injection.
I miss her so much and grief comes in waves. I didn't realize how deep and mutual are love for each other was until it was the end.
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My current cat is also excellent, but in a different way, so I will likely also fall to pieces over him when the time comes.
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They really do love us in ways humans can’t.
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I am going to be a complete fucking disaster when my dog dies.
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