RIP Cookie 2005 - 2018
Added 2018-05-01 08:31:52 +0000 UTCToday, between 4:00 - 4:17pm, Cookie the crooked-tail tabby suffered what looks like congestive heart failure and passed away while on the road looking for a pet clinic. Unfortunately, today is Labor Day, nothing is open.
First, he called out loud, louder than usual. Dad brought him out to the floor and lay him on the carpet, he struggled for a few minutes after collapsing, with fits and starts-like seizures. I just bundled him up in a towel headed for the lift, he'd seize up a few times on the ride down to the parking, his fur all fluffed. Mum drove, I massaged Cookie's chest often in hopes of something happening.
After finding all businesses closed, I had to call it as he stopped responding in the car, drooling saliva and his nose was leaking blood-stained mucus.
He now rests in a cat carrier he shared with Kitty, who passed a few years earlier.
My sister will advise me on his final preparations and creamtion, which will be done tomorrow. Hopefully I have enough for the services.
My little fluffball will be missed. In his final years, he wasn't harrassed by the old cat and got the whole house to himself, he's led a charmed and comfy life.
For now, I mourn quietly. I've had my little moment of sadness, but work doesn't finish itself.
My only regret is I didn't feed him his fave can of cat food. Today is Tuesday, when he usually has one for dinner and laps it up with great gusto. afterwards he'd sit on my bed and accompany me while I work. It was our little thing.
(final edit, sorry for all the pings, it's sudden and a lot process. Cookie literally died in my arms. Tomorrow is the cremation service at 9:30am)
(I don't know if I want to stream this week. I just want to work, be alone for a while, grieve.)
Comments
Sorry for you loss, LG. Sounds like you had some great years together though. Sent you what I could.
Skibum
2018-05-02 03:32:07 +0000 UTCI'm so sorry.
Cloplestia
2018-05-01 12:13:17 +0000 UTCMy mom told me once the poem of the rainbow bridge - it helped me to get over the loss of my also red cat tiger in 2004. Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge. When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable. All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor. Those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind. They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent. His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster. You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart. Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together....
2018-05-01 11:21:14 +0000 UTCMy sincerest condolences, may he rest in peace.
Melfur
2018-05-01 10:28:43 +0000 UTC
