Sad but Touching Photograph

[rebecca10782]

That is the sweetest thing I've ever heard. Animals can teach us so much. Have you ever heard of this story? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyfriars_Bobby

 

[Shared Acres]

That's sweet!

 

[thechickenchick]

Ruth, I am so sorry about Joe. He was a lucky cat to have you and your family to care for him. I do believe animals have feelings and they grieve just as we do. You and Rex can comfort each other. That is a precious picture. Thanks for sharing. You are in my thoughts. :aww

 

[rebecca10782]

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Oh my God, I didn't read this part before. Poor kitty, I don't even want to know what happened to him previously. That breaks my heart. That is so sweet of you to take him in.
We adopted a 100 lb golden retriever/pony

, Bailey, a few years ago. We were not told that he was epileptic, we found out when he had about three grand mall seziers one day. At one point he had twenty within two days. He has every medical problem you can think of. The woman from the rescue told us we could "trade" him for another dog. I couldn't believe it. No one knows the meaning of commitment anymore. He is the sweetest creature on the face of the earth. His first family locked him in the backyard the first year of his life because they had a baby and didn't want to deal with him anymore. So he had no confidence when we got him. He was always so nervous. Now he his spoiled rotten. I don't know what we would do without him, he is the funniest thing. Anytime I feel depressed, I can just look at him and laugh. He is a big clutz. He breaks into the fridge and steals all the food (he is always starving because of his meds), pees on the floor (when he get confused from the seziers), jumps up and headbuts you, barks in your face when he wants a head scratch, every annoying thing you can think of. But we could not imagine life without him. He has taught us tolerance and compassion. He also gets beat up by the cats and cries and hides behind our legs

He is so sweet

He is in the hospital right now with pancrietitis. Poor boy

 

[Biddieacres]

animals are angels. I hope Pony gets out of the hospital soon and back home with you.

 

[JenniferJoIN]

That's such a cute picture and sad at the same time!

 

[ruth]

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That's funny. Maybe he was. Funny thing is Rex never seemed to know that Joe hated him. Rex thinks everyone loves him and runs to greet every stranger, serviceman, visitor with a ball to play with. Even after 6 years he would run up to Joe to try and lick him or sniff him and say "hello" only to get whacked or slashed. Then he would just continue wagging tail and go his way. Rex is the only one that continued to try and get near Joe and be friends - everyone else learned to always go the other way if they saw him.

We finally, as a last ditch desperate measure, had Joe declawed about two years ago. It was that or have him put down because it had become what I called "Hell House". He would chase everyone of the pets, except Gizmo, through the house while they ran for their lives, knocking over furniture and jumping onto mantles and bookshelves and tables knocking everything off - just trying to get away from him. It was amazing but the declawing worked. After that Joe began to really calm down - didn't go after someone else just because they were within sight. He would still swat at anything that got too close to him, like Rex's daily greeting, but at least it wasn't hurting anyone and everyone began to calm down and happily co-exist.

I guess I'll never know exactly what was wrong with Joe, maybe he always had some kind of brain tumor, maybe he had been seriously mistreated before being dumped at the pound - I do know there will never be another one like him.

Rebecca - my heart goes out to you and Bailey - what a sweetie. I pray he recovers. We had a Yorkie that had seizures - lived to be 14, was deaf, blind and toothless before he finally passed.

Thanks to all for your kind words. I love all animals and strays and the sick and crippled always have a way of finding me and I take them in. My husband jokes that all of our pets are "special needs" animals and that we don't have any "normal" cats. We still have Morris (a stray cat), who has a severed spinal cord, at base of spine, just before tail, that left the tail dead and hanging down useless and who sometimes has trouble peeing and pooping in litter box since nerves are severed - and Simba (a stray cat) who has a crooked neck and is partially deaf. When I found him as a tiny feral kitten he could not walk forward, could only spin in circles and go backwards and was totally deaf (white cat/blue eyes). I have a chicken with a deformed leg and wing that gets around by hopping on one leg.

But I believe the Lord teaches us many things through other animals - loving and caring for something that needs you.

 

[FisherMOM]

Rebecca!! Your GRD is just adorable! I love that first picture of him. He looks as loving as my second GRD.... Sunshine

 

[Picky Chicky]

I was so sorry to hear about your loss. It hit especially close to home for me because my "first born" (first cat), "Neo" passed away at a year and a half of stomach cancer. He wasn't a cat - he was a little man in a cat's body, and it just tore us to pieces to put him down.

Big big big hugs from us to you during this time!!

:aww

 

[rebecca10782]

Oh God, I know the pain. I lost both of my dogs I had since childhood to cancer ju st a few years ago. I have never felt that amount of pain. I have not lost anyone in my family yet though. I can't even think about it.