awwwwwwwwwww........ get well soon kitty

he'll come home, everybody reading this thread send positive thoughts in the direction of Minnesota :thumbsup

keeping cats as indoor cats will greatly extend their lives and save the life of much of your wildlife.

My cat were always indoor cats. When I am ay my country house they are allowed on the deck and driveway and stay just there. As soon as I have to leave or before it get dark, inside they go!

i was just at the 24/7 vet a couple of days ago with our 14 week old puppy... Scary shit having to make those trips.. she only had a minor stomach bug but when they are young like that it is hard to take the chance. The vet we go to here in Michigan is EXTREMELY affordable compared to anything we have in the city in windsor.

Wish you the best of luck with your cat, hope you can locate a decently priced 24/7 vet in the area, those things can be a life saver...

VJo Good luck with your Kitty.

Keep in mind these stats:

Indoor cat Average lifespan = 12 year+
Outdoor cat average lifespan = 5 years or less


Of course since I live in FL my indoor cats have it better since I made a little doggie door to my big screened in patio where they can watch the ducks on the lake, all the birds lizards frogs and snakes all day, they are pretty lucky for indoor cats. Much harder when we were up north being indoors all day.

Vjo, now that your cat is considered a "geriatric" you should consider leaving him indoors or limiting his outdoor activities, older cats tend to get beat up pretty bad by younger males.

+1 :2 cents::2 cents:


Not to mention traffic. I have talked to so many vets about the number of deaths from cars that they see. When people tell me, "Oh, my cat is really smart about traffic", I ask them if their cat is as smart as a 5 year old child. When they tell me "No, of course not", I ask them if they would let a 5 year old go play in traffic. Sometimes they see the point.




Good luck with you kitty.



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meow meow

Damn... my babies are everything to me... Sounds like your cat is fine though- providing it hasn't gotten any worse. They're pretty tough and can take a lot.

Best of luck Vjo...

I foolishly let a girl I was dating keep her cat in my pool/patio enclosure while we spent the weekend at Epcot. Came back to $2000. worth of damage. Little shit fucked up half the screening.

Vjo, hope your kitty is ok :)

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Good luck...hope he's ok

Hang in there... just show him lots of love. Animals are pretty resilient to injury. I had a dog that was stabbed in the shoulder and in the chest. The chest wound was pretty bad... the fricken vet made him wait all night and took him into surgery the next morning.
If you do end up having to leave your cat for over night observation, leave a sweater you wear in his cage so he has something with your smell on it. It helps a lot for the animals stress.

50 cat people

need catnip STAT

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VJo!!!!!!

Sorry man JUST saw this when i got up, working late last night and I didn't check GFY!!

Hope your kitty Lucky is lucky and is doing okay. Please post an update here ASAP bro!

Little kitty prayers for Lucky.....:)

Let's hope he's back to rocking real soon! :thumbsup

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hope everything is ok

He did not make it. He died on the way to the vet only 1/2 mile after we left my place.

He jumped around a couple times then suddenly stopped breathing with his eyes open.

When I got to the vet they checked and he was gone. He had about an 1/8 inch hole on the side of his neck. Almost surely a bite wound.

It was prob due to an animal attack. Poss a racoon. But I will never know. The bite may have penetrated the windpipe.

The girls at the vet thought he may have had a precondition where his immune system was bad and that is why the pus built up so fast. Then again it may have just been too severe a bite.

I then continued on to my friends and we buried him in the woods near his house near a big tree. My friend did all the digging work. We wrapped in in a blanket and did a little ceremony.

I have had cats since I was 19. I am 54 now. 35 years. So it is kind of tough. I don't think I will be getting another right away.

I want to thank every poster personally who wished me the best. It was a long tough night but your tips and help really helped and I want to sincerly thank each of you for your kindness when I needed it.

Your my family and I love you all.

sorry to hear

you did your best for him which I am sure he is grateful

wow that sucks was just coming here to see what happened. sorry to hear.

from reading the thread this morning I never thought it would end like this... :(

Cats are very resilient and do pretty good with healing. My cats have all passed away now, but always in my heart. Muffin was 16 and had cancer, Snookums was 20 and had liver failure.

Thank you that is really nice.

I prob won't get any more cats. I just don't have the heart to keep them inside altho if I got a kitten maybe I could start from square one.

You are right. Outdoors is a dangerous place. Had I asked him though, he would have wanted to live his life as he did I feel. That is how he started life and that is what he enjoyed doing.

2 days ago he was feisty as could be and alive as ever. Ya just never know I guess.

Ill be ok. Just needed someone to talk to. Thank you all again.

Fuck, sorry to hear he didn't make it :(

Hang in there

20 is really good. My best wishes.

My cats:

Sam (siamese) 1976 to 1994 (17)

Rascal (siamese) 1979 to 1996 (16)

Squirley (long haired female) 1994 to 1996

Adopted stray (I believ feral) who had FLV but went from the lowest cat on the outdoor heirarchy to coming inside and living all through 1995, I fed her outside. she sat on my door step from March 1994 till October 1994. One night when it got cold she came in. I fell in love with her. My only female.

Named my biz after her.. SQ Virtual (unknown age)

The Three Legged Boy (showed up in 2002, fought with both Pippy and Lucky) Missing one rear leg. Tough as hell. Totally feral. Lived under the home for three years through the winter. 2002 till 2005. (unknown age)

American Breed Feral Stray (also lived under the home from 2002, lived a year longer than The Three Legged Boy 2002 till 2006. (unknown age)

I used to bring out two huge plates full of catfood each night in sub freezing weather down to 20 below, much to the shagrin of the neighbors. In the end I had to sneak out in the middle of the night to feed them. Then go back out and get the plates and the frozen solid (in 15 mins) water.

In 2004 my neighbor sucker punched me cause Lucky was in his yard. His two dogs surprised Lucky and cornered him who then nipped at one dog and run. I soon got a knock on the door.

Turns out he was a state championship wrestler. Only 145 LBs. I had been up all night (as usual) and it was 9:00 am so I was tired.

He was ranting about how he was gonna kill my cat if it came in his yard. I stepped out and he lured me to the street to fight. He immediately took me down. As a 47 y/o man I said Uncle immediately. He cococked me in the temple super hard. My glasses flew 30 feet across the pavement. I had brain swelling the next couple days.

One minute I am on the computer like now, the next I am in the middle of the street on my back. Within 3 minutes.

He then reported me and I was threatened with eviction 3 times over the next few years.

I had a lot of hate for him. He had a little girl 2 years ago and finally put all his energy into her and away from hating me.

Pippy (17 LB grey tabby short and very stocky, cute cat, age 5 when adopted from the humane society) 1994 to 2002 (13)

Lucky (american breed, common brown/tan striped with tiger stripes across the eyes) 2000 to 2011 (born in 1999, adopted) (12 1/2)

It helps to remember.

Wow VJo I am REALLY sorry to hear that man. I went out for breakfast hoping to return to some good news but sadly that was not the case.

I understand what you're going through because of this:

When I was 9 my dog and center of my life, peanut, got hit by a car and died. I had him since I was four and named him Peanut because my favorite books then were Snoopy books. LOL Plus, I loved peanut butter....

Anyway, he was a Beagle mix and always getting out of the fenced-in backyard (somehow). He would dig under, jump over, anything to run free. Well, he got out around 9 o'clock, my mom let him out in the back yard. Ten minutes later he was gone. We looked everywhere but then a neighbor called and said a dog had been hit up the street, maybe it was peaut. My dad and I race there, he's lying the street. I stay with him while Dad gets the car 9and mom). We race to the vet. It's now maybe 11:30 at night. My Dad driving, Mom in the front seat, me in the back seat, holding Peanut in my lap, wrapped in a blanket. The vet was twenty minutes away. "Hurry Dad! Hurry!"

Peanut, breathing heavily, started breathing more shallow, and just before he died he lifted his head and looked right in my eyes, as if to say 'Sorry', 'Good-bye' and 'I Love You' all at the same time. He died in my arms.

Four four months I was a wreck. Finally, just to help me heal (I was doing crazy shit like pretending Peanut wasn't actually dead, just hiding under the couch, so i would come home from school and go 'Peanut! ome out from under the couch!' I was a fucking mess, at nine years old. (Explains a lot, eh?)

So they got me another dog four months later, let me pick her out, a little blond butterball named Buttercup. LOL She lived 19 years. I still have her ashes. Greatest (doggy) love of my life.

So i understand, from a dog not cat perspective, your pain my friend. Obviously I can still remember every detail of Peanut's death 35 years later so this shit never really leaves you.

But new love, new joys, new friendships are there for you, when you're ready VJo, in the form of a new kitty "life partner" best friend/companion. When you're ready.

Big hug to VJo on a day like this. :)

Damn, sorry to hear just read it all and was hoping for the best. :(

oh damn :(

so sorry to hear this. grieve and then get another one. always a kitten or cat who needs a home and you need one too i think :)

Oh my goodness. SO SO SORRY. losing a pet can just tear you up. I have had almost every kind of animal as pets through my life. My brother calls them, "little tragedies in the making". Almost lost our cat to an unexplained reaction to vaccines last week, and he still isn't 100%, or even close to it.


Really tough news. :(

Very sorry for your loss, it sucks to lose a pet.

I have a parrot, mostly because of their long lifespan. He should easily outlive me. I'd be very hurt if anything happened to him.

So sorry to hear about kitty :(I worry about mine when she wants out at 6:00 in the morning.and the damn coons and skunks are still out in the bushes.
It's funny as hell when the coons come up to the window and intimidate her,she growls like hell and head butts the window trying to get at them although they would rip her apart

SUPER SORRY TO HEAR THIS, My God. Hang in there. Sending good energy to you as I write this.

((((Vjo))))


(thats a hug :upsidedow)

Thanks so much MP. Lil Peanut must not have been that old if you were only 9. People who love animals are special people as Tjeezers was saying.

Wow 19 years is REALLY good. Buttercup! :thumbsup You are right. They say you should always go get another animal before too long to help heal. I might. We'll see.

I really did not expect him to die. But he was very serious I knew. But to suddenly die in front of me (like you) I never witnessed that before. But in a way I am glad that I did rather than getting to the vet and them telling me he had to be euthanized and then you have the unknown.

Anyhow, I could have kept this to myself or post about it.

I decided to post about all this. I am glad I did. It helped a lot and again I thank you all.

I will always remember every person in this thread who was kind to me and Lucky.

I'm getting kind of tired but I want to go thru and respond to each poster that I havent responded to but that will get long so also thank you very much to all these good folks for your kind words:

Babaganoosh
CyberHustler
Intrinsic
KBHMN
L-Pink
Mutt
PR Glen
SIK
Spunky
_Richard_
babymaker
gabe100
gleem
idtapdat
jollyperv
pantyfreek
porno jew
sperbonzo
suesheboy

I did not mean to miss anyone.

Thank you.

Thanks Spunky, Lucky was sprayed by a skunk full on 3 times. In 2004, 2006, 2008 (he was on a BAD roll :) )

When he came in the first time through the cat door the entire house IMMEDIATELY smelled like skunk. It was so nausiating. All that works is white vinegar. Forget tomato juice. I then had to throw everything in the bathroom away after washing him with pure white vinegar, plus cover all furn as I had a little skunk running around for about 2 weeks where if he sat on something it smelled like skunk.

Plus he was freaking out and headed back outside for a few hours till I caught him. Major agita :)

Sleeping, forget about it.

Takes about 8 months to lose all skunk smell. Then it happened twice more. :)

The first time I seen the skunk. Lucky did too about 4am in late Sept. The skunk wandered off, Lucky behind it, I lost site plus didnt want to get too close. Of course he came back blasted.

The second time he got, it right outside the door. Skunk BOMB for the neighborhood. :) I hope they didnt know it was Lucky. You can imagine. You can smell a skunk a half mile away.

Third time he only got grazed. Guess he was getting more wise. Still real bad tho.

Thanks very much gabe. Ya know your lil gibby in your avatar looks just like my first cat Sam :) siamese are great cats.

They tend to not run quite so much either if I remember right.

I like animals a lot more than I like people.
Sorry to hear about your kitty. Keep your head up.

Meow. :)

Your brother is pretty sharp. Yes, unfortunatly in every pet owner's life we have to pay for the good times, and the love we had, someday.

It is worth it of course.

thanks. :) That's nice :)

Get some rest buddy, you must be exhausted, emotionally and physically. We'll be here for ya when you're rested.

GREAT Marshall Tucker Band choice. Another would be: "You Don't Live Forever". Tears can be a good thing, remember.

(Will go on and on about my love for MTB at another time.)

Being in the (only) 3% of males who never marry and having no kids I guess I sort of do too. :)

Thanks.