BS: My stray cat Tom

Subject: RE: BS: My stray cat Tom
From: GUEST,Scooby Doo
Date: 20 Mar 08 - 06:19 AM

Thankyou Cats,Jon and Trubrit i am going upto Scotland with my new partner at the weekend for a week to try and forget the pain that is left in my chest.


Scooby Doo

Subject: RE: BS: My stray cat Tom
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 20 Mar 08 - 01:37 AM

All the best from Ahbib, Em, Tiger Tom, Felicity Jane and Po --- we all remember with pain when the 6th member of the cat clan, Tucker, had to be euthanized due to cancer....no fun. Loving animals is hard....(the dog, Asha; the snakes, Viral, Autumn, and Morticia, the Leopard Geckos (they have names but I can' member them); the bearded dragon - Hannibal   -- all sent their love.

Subject: RE: BS: My stray cat Tom
From: Cats
Date: 20 Mar 08 - 01:15 AM

Bathsheba Everdean and Isolde of the White Paws send you extra purrs and snuggles tonight. Jon and I send hugest hugs.

Subject: RE: BS: My stray cat Tom
From: ranger1
Date: 19 Mar 08 - 07:33 PM

Scooby, sorry to hear about your Tom. When I was nine , I spent the entire summer taming a feral kitten, only to come home several months later to discover that my (ex)step-father had taken him to the shelter while I was at school. Leaves a big hole.

Subject: RE: BS: My stray cat Tom
From: GUEST,Scooby Doo.
Date: 19 Mar 08 - 05:53 AM

Leeneia,
I have had my cat for 7 years and i have fed the birds for that long too and Whistle has never brought in a bird touch wood yet.I am a member of the RSPB and RSPCA.

Scooby

Subject: RE: BS: My stray cat Tom
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 18 Mar 08 - 10:38 AM

If it's your cat and you love it, keep it in the house. For its sake and for the birds' sake.

(I'm a cat owner and lover, also a bird owner and lover.)

Subject: RE: BS: My stray cat Tom
From: GUEST,Chicken Charlie
Date: 18 Mar 08 - 10:32 AM

Very sorry to hear that, Scooby Doo. We have dogs now, but I retain fond memories of my mother's various eccentric cats, and her neighbor's cats, who seemed to consider her house a second home. Stray anythings that bond with you bring some gratuitous bit of worth, don't they? Sorry he's gone.

Chicken Charlie

Subject: RE: BS: My stray cat Tom
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 18 Mar 08 - 08:53 AM

Tig,
Iam a member,but he had a virus which is contagious to other cats.


Scooby.

Subject: RE: BS: My stray cat Tom
From: Tig
Date: 18 Mar 08 - 08:39 AM

Sorry to hear about your Tom. They have a habit of putting animals away who with treatment don't need to be.

Please join so that I can pm you with information which you may need later.

Hugs
Tig
xxx

Subject: RE: BS: My stray cat Tom
From: GUEST,Scooby Doo
Date: 18 Mar 08 - 05:19 AM

Thank you for all your condolences.When i come back from Scotland i will be taking Whistle upto the local vet to make sure she is okay.

Thanks again.
Scooby.

Subject: RE: BS: My stray cat Tom
From: Janie
Date: 17 Mar 08 - 11:02 PM

Oh Scooby, I'm so sorry.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: My stray cat Tom
From: Sorcha
Date: 17 Mar 08 - 10:39 PM

So sorry, Scooby. Years ago I had a stray tom, called him Buddy. A grey and white, beat up, non neutered fella....I think he had 'Rounds' that he made. I'd not see him for a few days, then he'd show up on the porch. Always ate. He wasn't exactly skinny either, just seemed to have been in a lot of scrapes. Divots out of both ears, etc.

I never convinced him to come in the house, but if I'd go sit on the porch, he'd get in my lap and let me pet him. Then, he just stopped showing up. Yes, I still miss Buddy. No 'house cat' is quite like a stray that adopts you.

Subject: RE: BS: My stray cat Tom
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 17 Mar 08 - 10:12 PM

hugs to you

sandra (not owned by any cat, but maybe in a few years when I move?)

Subject: RE: BS: My stray cat Tom
From: Charley Noble
Date: 17 Mar 08 - 09:09 PM

We've also adopted occasional strays and found them wonderful companions. Our last one was FIV compromised but he got on well with our two house cats, was a real gentleman. We named him Gashay, which in Ethiopian means "My Shield." He really had had a pretty hard life, as we gradually discovered from talking with out neighbors. He only lived about 6 years but he was great company and we still miss the big lug.

Sorry to hear about Tom.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: My stray cat Tom
From: catspaw49
Date: 17 Mar 08 - 06:35 PM

Roamin, Bixby, Sloopy, Pepper, and Shug, all will have a few extra strokes tonite as they rotate across my lap...............My best as well.........They're such wonderful little things..............Karen and I once tried to do without them........didn't work.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: My stray cat Tom
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 17 Mar 08 - 05:32 PM

Thankyou Gnu


Yas

Subject: RE: BS: My stray cat Tom
From: gnu
Date: 17 Mar 08 - 04:45 PM

RIP Tom.

Subject: RE: BS: My stray cat Tom
From: Bee
Date: 17 Mar 08 - 04:27 PM

Sorry to hear about Stray cat Tom. I've a Stray Cat myself who's moved right in, but still hears the call of the wild (translate: won't use litterbox, insists on outdoors regardless of weather or darkness, thus is subject to possible coyote predation).

Subject: RE: BS: My stray cat Tom
From: GUEST,Scooby Doo
Date: 17 Mar 08 - 03:17 PM

Sorry Max pressed the wrong button.
Glad to see Tom's name carries on in another stray cat Greycap.



Yas

Subject: RE: BS: My stray cat Tom
From: GUEST,Scooby Doo
Date: 17 Mar 08 - 03:13 PM

Subject: RE: BS: My stray cat Tom
From: GUEST,Greycap
Date: 17 Mar 08 - 03:11 PM

Commiserations from my stray cat, Tom Fur, who visits most days, and I. I hate losing cat friends.

Subject: RE: BS: My stray cat Tom
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Mar 08 - 03:04 PM

Oh, that's so sad. MY commiserations and those of my feline owners, Kipling and Trystan, as well as Merlee - the dawg. I hope your Whistle is good and checks out healthy. It's so hard to let them go.

{{{{{{{HUGS}}}}}}}

Subject: RE: BS: My stray cat Tom
From: Thompson
Date: 17 Mar 08 - 02:51 PM

Ni bhfeicfidh a leithéad arís ann. I hope you get Whistle checked out, and get a vaccinated girly pal for him. Commiserations.

Subject: RE: BS: My stray cat Tom
From: GUEST,Scooby Doo
Date: 17 Mar 08 - 02:50 PM

Thank you Manfred it is still very upsetting to think Tom has gone.


Yas.

Subject: RE: BS: My stray cat Tom
From: Leadbelly
Date: 17 Mar 08 - 02:45 PM

Sleep well, dear Tom...

I know what it means to say "good bye" to such a darling.

Many hugs to you and poor Whistle,

Manfred from Germany

Subject: BS: My stray cat Tom
From: GUEST,Scooby Doo
Date: 17 Mar 08 - 02:30 PM

I just had a phone call from the RSPCA that on Saturday night they put my stray cat Tom to sleep.I realise its the best thing for him as he had a contagious virus and lots of other illnesses that a stray picks up .My cat Whistle is looking for him in the garden,then comes in and looks at me with a sad face.
The RSPCA said i would have to have my Whistle checked out too,just in case she has the illness.Can all the cat lovers on the site raise a drink to my poor old Tom tonight please.


Scooby Doo.