Brenda

I received a sympothy card through the mail today from the clinic that put my cat to sleep on Saturday. It had a beautiful poem in it about the rainbow bridge and our animals playing in a meadow and waiting for us to get there and go over the bridge with us. It was pretty but got me crying again reading it. I have to say, that I truly don't believe our animals have souls/spirits or have an afterlife, but that is just my feeling I guess. But I got talking to my mom about that poem and she got me laughing today. She was saying that with all the animals that we have had over the years(cats,dogs,birds,hampsters, rats,lizards,fish), if they were all waiting there for her and saw her and came running at her, they would trample her and they probably would not let her in heaven with that many animals behind her. She said she would need an ark or something. I spent alot of time today at her house playing with her two cats. They are sweeties too, but never would be like my Kathy girl( or as I sometimes called her--I don't know why-- but "Missy Boo-Boo head". But just holding her black and white syvester kitty healed my heart a little today.

I had to put our 14 yr old cat Kathy to sleep 2 days ago. She had heart and thyroid problems that needed medicine daily and really bad arthritis. This past weekend she started throwing up all the time and had another kidney infection. She was in the litterbox for almost 24 hrs straight and was so weak she would just lay in her litterbox. I finally decided Saturday that I couldn't stand to see her hurting anymore and took her to an emergency animal clinic to have her put to sleep. I went in with her because I didn't want her to be scared. Now I kinda wish I hadn't because I just keep seeing that IV in her little arm and when they put the injection in she went down like a rag doll just limp. The second injection stopped her heart in just a few seconds. I have cried off and on for 2 days straight now. I feel like maybe I should have tried more medicine or something to keep her around until she died naturally. I keep finding her little balls and toy mice around the house and after having her here for 14 yrs, it is like one of my children died and this house seems so empty I know this will take a long time for me to get over so please keep me and my family in your prayers. Thanks.