No mail has appeared in my mailbox from this group for quite long while
so I thought I would inquire as to whether _ I _ am just missing mail
that HAS been going to others or if the group has simply not been active
for a couple of months..... Generally it has been my experience that
once I write one of these notes I start to get mail once again... NO
idea why....
I thought of all of you recently when it was time to put my Hospice Cat
( Gilbert) down.... Third cat I have lost in a year.... I'm 0 for 3 at
this point and am thinking it might be time to take on a more healthy
animal but I keep harkening back to amani's words... If not us... who??
Certainly not the people who don't much care about cats...nor the vast
majority of people who HAVE cats..... There are SO many deserving
animals out there that have problems that place them low on the adoption
list.... they ALL deserve to have a home and someone to see them as
special.... Gilbert was not adoptable with his brain injury...though
ALL of the volunteers thought him special...still... no one came forward
when he developed cancer though they all truly DID care that he was
going to die.... He had a good life for his last few months... sitting
on the porch...looking out the window.... and more petting and love than
even HE wanted. As is usually the case.... it was probably harder on me
than him when it came time.... He stopped eating, it was painful for him
to get his oral meds and even subq pain killers did little... He was
constipated and just hid out all day... The Tumor was forcing his one
eye to protrude and the other to recede... it would have been cruel to
ask him to endure more..... A beautiful sweet animal.... I miss him
terribly...
Curious to see if I find the list active with this submission.....
Bob...
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