I am so fortunate to have some really really great clients.
I really liked this guy because he was such a warm, caring compassionate person.
And he did so much for his cat.
And he did so much for a cat that was his ex wife's.
How many ex husbands would do that?
Being a petsitter has helped heal my heart some what, because prior to this job
I worked as Animal Intake & Clinic Nurse @ the Austin Humane Society.
Boy, talk about learning how to bite my tongue.
And the funny thing is,I don't always like all my clients,but it doesn't
matter, I don't have to.
As long as they take care of their animals that's all I care about.
And some of the things they do for their pets is amazing........
Susan J. DuBose >^..^<
www.PetGirlsPetsitting.com
www.Tx.SiameseRescue.org
www.shadowcats.net
"As Cleopatra lay in state,
Faithful Bast at her side did wait,
Purring welcomes of soft applause,
Ever guarding with sharpened claws."
Trajan Tennent
----- Original Message -----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 6:15 PM
Subject: Re: Sylvester changed to "Boots"
Thank you for sharing this great story!
In a message dated 8/25/2007 4:03:24 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL
PROTECTED] writes:
This probably is a bit off topic, but since we are discussing when cats
pass away, I thought it would be of interest.
I have a client that is a Buddhist,and he is also a Hospice caregiver.
He tends to the dying,of course, and is there to hold their hand in their
final hour.
Anyway, he was called out of town alot, I believe he took on cases where
people had no family, friends & very little money.
Sometimes prisons.
So I took care of his 18+ year old cat that was also in renal failure.
MIss Boots Big Tail, hated everyone but my client, Steve.
His girlfriend was from China, and although she loved Boots, Boots always
made a point to let her know she was second fiddle.
And his girlfriend wasn't used to the concept of "pets", for some reason
(that was how he explained it to me) due to the part of China that she was
originally from.
Boots would insist on always being in between them when they would be on
the couch, etc.........
Anyway, Boots would be visited by me 3 times perday when he was out of town
and 2 of those times it would be for her meals (whipped Pet Guard or Wellness
w/ her meds purified water added, and it had to be warmed up in a double
sausepan.)
She also recieved fluids.
Boy, did he love this cat, only client I ever had that insisited on me
removing my shoes when I entered his home, he did not want any germs to be
brought into her from my other clients or my own cats.
(Now I have a policy where I always remove my shoes or wear the "nurse
booties". I liketo respect people's homes)
When Boots finally was in her last leg of her journey on earth, she could
not walk and had to be carried everywhere.
I of course, would need to clean her up,because she could not make it to
the box.
She was still so alert tho, and she was eating great.
On the night that she died, he knew her time had come.
He stayed up w/her all night, and about 4am he passed out from exhaustion
for just a few moments, when he woke up, she was gone.
We believe that she needed to go, but could not as long as he was awake.
And the interesting part was, this cat was the last of 3 cats that he
inherited from his ex wife when she died.
I don't know any details, I never ask clients, I just let them talk and
tell me what they feel they need to.
When his wife died, she was buried in a pet cemetary w/ her other cats out
of state.
Her reasoning was that she always liked & respected animals more than
people,so she choose to be buried amoung them.
He packed up Boots and took her out of state to be buried along side his ex
wife........
Terrie Mohr-Forker
TAZZY'S ANIMAL TRANSPORTS
SIAMESE & COLLIE RESCUE
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