Obit: Nik Naks Cat

Subject: Obit: Nik Naks Cat
From: smallpiper
Date: 15 Nov 02 - 08:16 PM

Sadly one of Nik Naks cats died today. The poor wee thing had a tumour in its lung and was so distressed, the tumour was inoperable, that Nik Nak had to make the decision to send it to the next life.

I know that she and her house mate Dave are both devistated by this loss and Would like as many Mudcatters as possible to send her support through this thread.

Losing a pet is losing a friend and loved one.

My thoughts are with them both
x

Subject: RE: Obit: Nik Naks Cat
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 15 Nov 02 - 08:19 PM

Soryy to hear this. My cat died a couple of years ago so I know what it is like. Please pass on our thoughts.

Subject: RE: Obit: Nik Naks Cat
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 15 Nov 02 - 08:32 PM

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Subject: RE: Obit: Nik Naks Cat
From: Gareth
Date: 15 Nov 02 - 08:35 PM

Nik Nak - I am sorry to here your sad news. Earlier this year I had to make a similar decision with Guto my Terrier. I am afraid that this is part of the cost of keeping a companion.

You have my sympathy, but to save pain and suffering this was the correct decision.

Sharing your loss,

Gareth

Subject: RE: Obit: Nik Naks Cat
From: smallpiper
Date: 15 Nov 02 - 08:44 PM

Oh wow!

Subject: RE: Obit: Nik Naks Cat
From: Helen
Date: 15 Nov 02 - 09:43 PM

I had to make that decision in July this year. I miss my cat terribly, but I know that she visits now and then. Life without a cat is indescribably lonely, but until we go away on hols in January it is not practical to find another feline friend. We have waited until both our cats passed over before considering going on a long holiday, so now I just have to wait some more until after the holiday and maybe our home renovation work early next year - too noisy/scary otherwise for welcoming a new household friend.

NikNak, you have my sympathy.

Helen

Subject: RE: Obit: Nik Naks Cat
From: Genie
Date: 15 Nov 02 - 09:54 PM

Nik Nak and Dave, I am so sorry to hear about your dear moggy. I know all too well what a loss it is. (My 4 1/2 year old kitty was run over in August and I had to send the 15 year old "off to the next life" a few weeks later, as she was dying of kidney failure.) These companion animals bring so much to our lives, and it can be so devastating when they pass on, especially in circumstances like your cat's.

Grisabella (a stray who adopted me last month) and I both send our sympathy and warm thoughts.

Genie

Subject: RE: Obit: Nik Naks Cat
From: Bobert
Date: 15 Nov 02 - 10:15 PM

Meeeooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.......

Danged...........................

bobert

Subject: RE: Obit: Nik Naks Cat
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 16 Nov 02 - 11:14 AM

Spoke to Nikki today, and the poor wee girl is really bereft.

Subject: RE: Obit: Nik Naks Cat
From: Hollowfox
Date: 16 Nov 02 - 11:25 AM

Nik Nak, you did one of the hardest things in the world, but your only choices were to let the little one hurt even more, or help the pain to stop. I made the same choice once with a kitten, and it was hard, and sad, but I'd do it again, because it had to be done. You did the right thing. So hug Dave, and take comfort in the other cats. You're a good and responsible catfriend.

Subject: RE: Obit: Nik Naks Cat
From: Bassic
Date: 16 Nov 02 - 11:48 AM

Hello sweetheart. No words are good enough. Just know that you gave him a lovely couple of years in a loving home. Cherrish his memory by being happy about the wonderfull life he had with you both which he might not have had if you hadn`t come along and taken him in. Big hugs.X

Subject: RE: Obit: Nik Naks Cat
From: GUEST,Phil Cooper on the sig-o's computer
Date: 16 Nov 02 - 12:49 PM

It's a tough decision to make. We've had to do it a couple times with our feline friends, and it never gets easy. Sorry for the loss.

Subject: RE: Obit: Nik Naks Cat
From: Sonnet
Date: 16 Nov 02 - 02:30 PM

I don't know you, but I really feel for you.

Love. Courage. Forward.

Jay, Tabitha and Charlie

Subject: RE: Obit: Nik Naks Cat
From: KJ
Date: 16 Nov 02 - 03:04 PM

We're really sorry to hear about Nik Nak's loss. No-one & nothing can take the pain of that awful grief away we can only offer words of comfort & let her know they come from the heart.

"I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other. Then someone at my side says, "There, she is gone."

"Gone where?"

Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side, and she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port. Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at the moment when someone at my side says, "There, she is gone!" there are other eyes watching her coming, and there are other voices ready to take up the glad shout, "Here she comes!" And that is dying.

- Anonymous
Lots of cuddles from Karen & Colin

Subject: RE: Obit: Nik Naks Cat
From: Oaklet
Date: 16 Nov 02 - 03:08 PM

Nik, I really hope you are reading and taking strength from all this. Thinking 'bout you and Dave.

Subject: RE: Obit: Nik Naks Cat
From: JeZeBeL
Date: 16 Nov 02 - 03:25 PM

Hey Nik Nak....I'm so sorry...I loved your cat's to bit's. Who was it if you don't mind me asking? I will be in contact soon.

Best wishes and love with all my heart

Emma xxx

Subject: RE: Obit: Nik Naks Cat
From: Banjo-Flower
Date: 16 Nov 02 - 07:31 PM

So sorry Nikki

Gerry

Subject: RE: Obit: Nik Naks Cat
From: niknak
Date: 17 Nov 02 - 11:08 AM

So many thanks to y'all. Him being called Bates, we bought Bates bitter and spent the afternoon soggily drinking and playing tunes for him. The other cats had a ball eating grilled turkey and chewing the rose bush we'd just bought in honour of the departed.
It is hard and as you guessed i cried, but today i've looked at the photos of my babie and he was just the happiest cat and we did that for him (he'd been a scabby, bleeding stray) so i feel good. Then i look again at the photos and realise that he used to sit in the best chair, lie on the ironing boar, cover everything in cat hair, eat my sarnies, keep us up to the wee small hours to let him in, wake us at the wee small hours to let him out and my god i miss him.
Anyway, if anyone knows how to put photos on here, you can see him drinking my bitter, if not, i get back to the purpose of this post which is to say (i'm sorry you know how it feels) thanks for your kind words and poem-y things, they made my eyes wet but they helped too - ta xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx!