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An Obituary
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Friday Ark #56
Cats, Dogs, Spiders and ? every Friday. We’ll post links to sites that have Friday (plus or minus a few days) photos of their chosen animals (photoshops at our discretion and humans only in supporting roles). Watch the Exception category for rocks, be…
Digital Amish
Enough with the damn cats already. Jeez!
Nikki
How unbelievably sad. Poor Tacitus.
Joey
As the owner of two beloved cats (and two dogs, one beloved, the other, not so much, but she’s still a good dog), that is the single saddest thing I have ever read in my life.
Mike S
Cats, and the women that own them, will do that to you. I’m unfortunate enough that I am actually alergic to them but my wife made it worth the hassle. When we had to put one of them down a few years ago it tore me up. And I don’t even want to imagine how I’ll feel when the other follows, and it’s a dead ringer for Travino’s except he lost his tail.
My condolences to Josh.
Krista
That was so sad, and so eloquent. It should be read by all cat lovers, and by all of those who do not understand why someone would mourn a pet.
Mr Furious
As someone who has managed to be both a cat-person (most of my life) and a dog-person (later) I can totally relate to Tac’s experience. The devotion and bond to a pet can be a profound part of life.
Krista
I know…and it’s frustrating when people don’t understand how you can be as protective of your pet as you would be of a kid. I was with my sister and her kids this weekend, and my 5 1/2 year old nephew kept jumping around close to him, despite repeated warnings. My dog is a slightly cantankerous old bastard, so I was trying to prevent an incident. Anyhoo, the jumping continued, and sure enough, my nephew jumped on the dog’s tail, stumbled, and fell on him. He wasn’t bitten, but the dog snarled and snapped at him a couple of times, and then ran away. Well, my sister was completely up in arms, saying that the dog should know better than to bite at a child, etc. etc., and couldn’t understand why I was defending him. But we took this dog in when his owner passed away, and he had a hard go of it, and yeah, we’re very protective of him, and he’s come a very long way under our care. And it was just very frustrating to not be able to get the others to understand that a dog doesn’t have the same reasoning capacity of a human being. Anyway…just needed to vent.
Rome Again
After recently acquiring a new cat (purely by accident, found him on my newspaper route during a hurricane and couldn’t let him stay out in the storm) I see many of the same habits and attitudes in my new companion as Tacitus so eloquently describes.
At first he stayed close to my husband, and when I said we probably shouldn’t keep him and might consider taking him to the pound (with the assurance of course that they wouldn’t put him down), my husband said “no, we’ll keep him”.
Now Stormy (not named after our resident conservative of course, but Hurricane Dennis instead) has gravitated towards being my third child (the open motherly arms that pet him constantly I think has something to do with that) and the hubby is placed in the position that Tacitus first encountered with his Oscar.
I had stated for years that when we got a pet I wanted a dog (a male Schnauzer breed that I wanted to call Shakespeare) but now that I have this new feline resident, I don’t think I could be any happier, despite the constant need this cat has for attention.
Long live the memory of the Oscars (and when it is time, the Stormys) of this world.
goonie bird
We used to have cat that would sit around with its tougne sticking out looked funny but we never got a good picture