Kittens

[DaveB]

Have had a wide variety of cats in the past.

A Tabby who was very much in charge of the household but who would bring home strays who looked like they needed a good feed and a bit of TLC.

3 Stray ginger toms, courtesy of the above tabby, all of whom made a house brick look like a nobel prize winner, including one who regularly fell of fences.

Assorted black and white cats of assorted sex and vintage. The youngest should have been doing cat food commercials but ended up living in the stables and hunting rats and rabbits for herself. She was totally feral in the house, I still have the scars . Left to live in the stables she was the sweetest most affectionate cat I've ever had.

The eldest of these turned up one night when I came home drunk and left the back door open. I woke up in the morning with damp feet and couldn't work out why untill I saw the mangiest cat I had ever met asleep at the foot of the bed.

When I tried to shoe him out he could barely move and when I took a closer look it was clear he was in a very bad way. Starved, flea ridden and with a couple of nasty oozing wounds.

I wrapped him in a tea towel and chucked him in a cardboard box to take to the local PDSA. He didnt put up much of a fight. When they saw him they cleaned him up and checked him out. Turned out that as well as the injuries and starvation he had a dodgy heart. They gave him a shot of antibiotics and vitamins and basically told me he was on his last legs and at least his last week or so would be comfortable if I was happy to take him in. I went home with enough antibitocs and pills for his heart to see him through to what we thought would be the end.

3 years later his kidneys finally packed in and I had to have him put to sleep. Was one of the very few times I've cried in front of strangers.

[norrahe]

3 years later his kidneys finally packed in and I had to have him put to sleep. Was one of the very few times I've cried in front of strangers.

I've had to have one of mine put down because of kidney failure, it didn't help that I was in reception whilst in tears, as the receptionist insisted we settle up there and then.

[Pogle]

I've had to go through it 4 times now - Mr P is a coward and only came with me for the first one. The vet was lovely and said he'd send a bill and I was shown out very quickly to minimise my embarrassment & distress.

They were all cremated and put into little wooden boxes - along with the one who died in her sleep. We had one other also, but she dissappeared at 16, my daughter tells me she ran off to California.

[Board Game Geek]

They were all cremated and put into little wooden boxes - along with the one who died in her sleep

I think you'll find that's called asphyxiation.

[norrahe]

The worst time was last summer and someone ran over one of mine right outside my house.

She was too busy texting and chatting to her friends to notice him walking across the road in front of her.

Got him cremated and scattered his ashes in the back garden, one of the other cats kindly rolled in the ashes, came in and sat on my lap afterwards.

[foritisme]

We lost one of our cats the day before christmas eve and its the only time it's got to me. We had Henry for about 16 yrs, my wife had been on about getting a white cat for yrs and when working over in Wilmslow I saw an advert for one. I went over to see the litter and the kittens were tiny - I think they were too young to be taken from the mother. Anyway I picked henry and called on my way home.

So driving along the motorway with this little kitten in a cardboard box on the passenger seat. After a few miles he ended up on my shoulder and thats how we drove home.

He was a lovely cat, so friendly - wife dotted on him. The last few years he had heart problems and when I got home before Christmas I saw him lying on the driveway in a way I knew there was a problem.

After consoling my wife and ringing up the vet........

I drove him down in a little cardboard sat on the passenger seat

[Pogle]

We lost one of our cats the day before christmas eve and its the only time it's got to me. We had Henry for about 16 yrs, my wife had been on about getting a white cat for yrs and when working over in Wilmslow I saw an advert for one. I went over to see the litter and the kittens were tiny - I think they were too young to be taken from the mother. Anyway I picked henry and called on my way home.

So driving along the motorway with this little kitten in a cardboard box on the passenger seat. After a few miles he ended up on my shoulder and thats how we drove home.

He was a lovely cat, so friendly - wife dotted on him. The last few years he had heart problems and when I got home before Christmas I saw him lying on the driveway in a way I knew there was a problem.

After consoling my wife and ringing up the vet........

I drove him down in a little cardboard sat on the passenger seat

You made me cry.......

[norrahe]

You made me cry.......

stop, you'll get me going as well

The only thing that is stopping me is the fact that one of my cats is snoring his head off very loudly outside my office and it's making me laugh.