I'm more of a dog person but the neighborhood cats like to hang out in my front yard. One of them likes to use the Miata's top as a cat hammock. Sometimes I will give one a nice scratch on the head when one comes up to me.
I don't understand why anybody would harm one of these creatures.
Snowdoggie wrote: I don't understand why anybody would harm one of these creatures.
98.672% of all people = excrement
I couldn't sleep at all last night. The house was too quiet without her bouncing down the hallway or scratching her post, Nobody to wake me up at exactly 630 either. 
I will give both my cats a pat for you as I walk by them on the way to bed tonight. I know where they will be. They will be on the fireplace mantle in there little tin urns. They are still members of the family. They were 18 and 19 years old when my wife and I decided the humane thing to do was put them down. Symbad fought a good fight against Lukimia and managed to hang on till 3 weeks after our daughter was born. Zoe lasted another 2.5 years after he before intestinal cancer got her. That was 1.5 years ago. In their later years were quite cold natured. They keep warm on the mantle. Obviously we still miss them and we often talk of getting some more fur friends but none have come to claim us yet. "Snif" damn alergies.
Sorry for your loss :( I keep my cats indoors because it's just too dangerous out there for em.
P71 wrote: I couldn't sleep at all last night. The house was too quiet without her bouncing down the hallway or scratching her post, Nobody to wake me up at exactly 630 either.
When you took your cat in to be cremated, why didn't you pick up another one? I'm sure they had ton waiting to be adopted.
Sorry for your loss. I'm still getting over losing our dog two and a half weeks ago. You'll be ready for another, and you'll know when the time is right. I have told my wife that she's going to come home to some dog one day. Not sure when, but one day.
Very sorry to hear of your loss. I had to watch this happen a few years ago as a cat ran out in front of the car I was following on a busy (45 mph limit) road... there was simply nothing the woman (driver) could do. We both stopped, but the cat had no tag, so there was little we could do. The sight of that cat deing will be forever burned into my memory. I get teary eyed just thinking about it again.
My ex-g/f has two cats I love dearly. Both have their claws, but the closest they get to the outside is either her sunroom or an occasional stint in a folding screen tent in the grass. She lives on a very busy street, so we had no confidence in their ability to stay alive.
spitfirebill wrote:P71 wrote: I couldn't sleep at all last night. The house was too quiet without her bouncing down the hallway or scratching her post, Nobody to wake me up at exactly 630 either.When you took your cat in to be cremated, why didn't you pick up another one? I'm sure they had ton waiting to be adopted.
Oh we will for sure, just not ready yet. We still have our other cat (Einstein, an all-gray shorthair) who got from the same Humane Society before Nibbler. He's getting pretty lonely without his playmate. We got him in August of 06, and he was already 4 years old. He's the perfect cat, just loves everybody, and always comes home when you call him. He's been our rock the last few days.
We've fostered cats as well (Blackberry over October in 07 and Hadron in the fall of 08) and had adopted an 18-year-old cat from a nursing home who was just going to put him down (the cruel irony in that). "Dude" had 3-4 great months with us in the spring of 08, we called it his "retirement". He couldn't get out of our back yard (8' fence) and neither could Nibbler at the time, so they just loved hanging out back there.
We will definitely be getting another cat when the time is right, it's what Nibbler would have wanted. Besides if there's anything I'm a sucker for more than another car project, it's a fluffy little furball in need of a home. 
That Really sux, so do a lot of people when they think no one is watching.
Very sorry for your loss.
Where I work it doesn't pay to be known to love cats. The office manager is a dog person. That said, I love cats. The one that took up with us years ago was found in the front yard with a couple fo small bloody spots on it. Not sure what killed it, but I suspect someone shot it or a dog got her. She was an outside cat. Apparently she had a habit of climbing up onto a neighbor's Eurospec 911S and scratching the paint.
so sorry for your loss we have four ..now all rescued, feline mutts
Wife and I lost two last spring to old age / disease One was 22 and we knew she could't last long the other was "only" 15 . A beautiful Maine Coon that came down with a fast growing tumor and we had to put her down as well.
but early summer a friend and co-racer called and beause we are "cat people" he asked if we were intested in a kitten.
only 6 weeks or so after the loss, my wife wasn't sure she was ready but I lugged the carrier along and we picked one little fur ball all shy and cuddly but then another one jumped into the wifes arms .also.. we brought them both home Brother is now twice the size of the cutie. A year old next week, they have brougt so much joy to our home.
The big boy just romps and knocks over everything as he runs about even his sister. They have even brought my daugter's cat out of her shell and they all romp and play together
Never outside. we love 'em too much for fleas or accidents.
Always had barn cats before this wife and they never lived more than a couple years. Cars and fights always claimed them.
I'll never forget the day my son went out to catch the school bus and found Rambo dead in the road....
I'll give my mutts a treat tonight. and hope you find another to take Nibbles place
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