And Now...
Mar. 15th, 2008 01:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
porphyry...just to add the icing to this illness-brother hospitalization-illness-ice storm-illness-snowstorm-disrupted classes due to cancellations-icestorm-illness-car wreck-injured child-injured mother-snowstorm-four plagiarist students this term cake--
... my cat died.
I suppose I should take the long, philosophical view. He was sixteen-years-old, almost seventeen, so he'd had a long, happy life. Three or four days ago, I noticed he'd stopped eating and drinking, never good in a cat (or dog, either). He would be tempted by nothing, and nothing is more pitiful than to watch an animal try to take a drink--want to take a drink, badly--and be unable to. He didn't appear to be in pain, but I couldn't take watching him like this anymore. Today he went to the veterinarian and we learned his kidneys were shutting down. We let him go.
He was a sweet cat--more like a dog than a cat, actually; friendly, affectionate, faithful even. We will miss him very much.
... my cat died.
I suppose I should take the long, philosophical view. He was sixteen-years-old, almost seventeen, so he'd had a long, happy life. Three or four days ago, I noticed he'd stopped eating and drinking, never good in a cat (or dog, either). He would be tempted by nothing, and nothing is more pitiful than to watch an animal try to take a drink--want to take a drink, badly--and be unable to. He didn't appear to be in pain, but I couldn't take watching him like this anymore. Today he went to the veterinarian and we learned his kidneys were shutting down. We let him go.
He was a sweet cat--more like a dog than a cat, actually; friendly, affectionate, faithful even. We will miss him very much.
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Date: 2008-03-20 10:06 pm (UTC)No, one never hears of cats named Steve, and usually not Geoff, but I know of a cat named Joeffry--this poem was written by Christopher Smart in approximately 1760 while Smart was confined to an insane asylum. He was a good observer of cats, however.
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/661.html