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Rust Martialis posted:Suzie mlem Suzie got them wild eyes
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Sep 30, 2021 06:10
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Poppy enjoys pats so much sometimes her legs stop working https://i.imgur.com/8zwEgME.gifv https://i.imgur.com/chw3IVi.gifv
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Sep 30, 2021 06:18
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Pushka says meowdy.
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Sep 30, 2021 11:15
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Meowdy purrdner
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Sep 30, 2021 12:42
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Mr. Winthorpe & Mr. Valentine helping me play video games.
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Oct 2, 2021 07:06
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Oct 6, 2021 20:52
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He himself seems shocked
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Oct 7, 2021 08:56
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"Winter is combing."
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Oct 11, 2021 09:17
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Oct 11, 2021 13:58
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https://twitter.com/mymemoldy/statu...sults_are_in%2F
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Oct 11, 2021 18:30
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A little over three years ago I lost Bernie, my best friend of 17 years, to kidney issues and old age. A while later we decided to adopt an older cat. Went to the shelter and asked to see the oldest cat that had been there the longest and they introduced us to Applesauce They said she came in with a bunch of other cats from an abuse/hoarding case. They estimated her age at about 10 and she had been there for 7 or 8 months. The shelter has a cat room full of cats ready to be adopted. It's nice, they are "free range" and don't have to stay in a cage. We came back the next day to see her again and put our paperwork in for adoption. This is where we found her.  She eventually came out to eat, and afterwards was laying on the ground when two very feisty kittens started playing and basically ran right over her face and she didn't even move. We needed to bring her home. She got up on a window seat before we left and I gave her a boop to let her know we would be back the next day.  We brought her home and did the slowest introduction possible between her and our other cat, Lemew. Lemew was not all about this new cat of course, and our dog Oliver wasn't either but he was more passive about it. The first thing we did was rename her. We were trying to come up with a good old person's name and eventually settled on Shyne. My grandmother was named Sunshyne and everyone called her Shyne for short. She loved cats. So Shyne it was. We were pretty sure she was ok with this because the shelter said they had just given her the name at random. I spent the first few nights in the spare bedroom with Shyne and she was very nervous and scared. A couple of times she came up on the bed and sniffed around me while I pretended to be asleep, but she wasn't ready for people time yet. She also wasn't impressed with Lemew having the high ground  I'll skip ahead to the part where she loves to cuddle. One of her favorite things is to fall asleep on my hand  In time, she also decided she loves belly rubs. If I just slightly encourage her to roll over, she flops over and throws her paws up in the air like she just don't care.  It hasn't all been belly rubs and good times. She wasn't very well taken care of before. She has chronic dental issues, and we had to have a few of them extracted two separate times. She was wormy when we got her. Last year we discovered that she was very constipated and has had miralax every morning since then, so she can poop like a normal cat. And then this past Spring we noticed that there was something wrong with her right ear. Doctor said it was cancer. She had her right ear canal removed in May  She recovered fully and both the surgeon and the pathologist were confident that they got it all. Doctor said that the tumor actually fell out of the ear canal when they removed it. Shyne recovered well - her ear isn't sliding off of her face anymore at all. She even discovered that she like hanging out with Oliver on the couch every evening  She was also back to being snuggly, even though the whole process of diagnosis to recovery involved a lot of vet trips and it was touch and go for a while as to whether she was going to want to be close to me again.  About a month ago we felt some bumps behind and below her right ear. We thought it might be scar tissue. We weren't really sure how everything healed, and we hadn't gone towards that area while she was healing from her surgery so we figured it was normal. They got bigger. We took her back and they tested very high for cancer cells. It got to her lymph nodes somehow. Surgeon said that it was about quality of life now. She recommended that if we wanted to, that we should see an oncologist for a second opinion. We did, and he agreed. He said that if it got to her lungs already she probably had 2 months and if not, probably 6 months. He told us what to look for, for when it would be time. Sunday we found two spots on one of her lumps that look like pimples. Yesterday morning she had scratched the back of her ear near the tumor to the point it was an open wound. She has been eating, but not a lot. There are a couple of other signs that she is showing us that she isn't ok. I called the vet to discuss a home visit but the doc is out until tomorrow. Might have another doc from the facility call today to see if she can do it, if not we have to take her in this week. This is last night. This is the closest the two of them have been to each other in the three years she's been here.  Usually when Lemew approaches the couch, Shyne takes off. If we put Lemew on the couch, at the other end, Shyne takes off even if Lemew isn't looking at her. Lemew only has three legs and is super aware of when someone isn't doing well in the house. The day the vet came over for Bernie, Lemew laid down next to her in the sunlight and that was the only time in the 6 years that they were together that it happened. This is also from last night.  She's the sweetest cat I've ever had and on the one hand my heart is breaking but on the other hand, we adopted her to give her a better life for the end of her life, and I know we did. Thanks for letting me share.
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Oct 26, 2021 15:08
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Thank you for giving Shyne a good life
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Oct 26, 2021 19:55
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She's beautiful. I'm so sorry  . You gave her a second chance at life. You're a good person.
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Oct 26, 2021 21:25
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My sympathies; cat cancer is awful. Thank you for giving her a good life for as long as you could.
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Oct 26, 2021 23:01
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You are a good human being, Flyinglemur, for giving Shyne a good life at the end. Cat cancer sucks, but you don't.
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Oct 27, 2021 13:31
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Thank you for giving Shyne a wonderful home until the end. It's always heartbreaking to lose them, but it's wonderful to give and get such love. My gal Skadi passed from cat cancer a few years back. She was trouble at all possible times but that's part of the charm.   
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Oct 27, 2021 18:09
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Thank you all for your kind words, and thank you CapitanGarlic for loving Skadi. I appreciate just being able to process it out here. Talked to the vet this morning and they will come to our house next Wednesday but if something gets acute before that, we can take her in. So we will play it by ear. You can ignore the audio here - I did this for a buddy of mine last week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjnEmdJ4fo0
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Thats the happiest looking kitty I've ever seen.
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Nov 2, 2021 00:09
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Nov 2, 2021 01:57
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This weekend Shyne went downhill pretty quickly. She made it obvious that we couldn't wait until Wednesday's home visit so we took her in this morning. She stopped eating yesterday evening and had been spending more and more time in her safe spot under our bed. She came out to the kitchen at breakfast but wouldn't come near me and went right back to hiding. As we were waiting for the vet to call back she came out to the couch to sit between us. I snapped this picture right before she got down and went to the bedroom again Later on I realized she was saying goodbye. I'm really going to miss her. Thank you for letting me process this here. Today is also the one year anniversary of my mother in law's passing and she and my wife were very, very close. This has been a poo poo day Edit: imgur link not showing up while I phone post. Perfect Deus Ex Macklemore has a new favorite as of 02:57 on Nov 2, 2021 |
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Nov 2, 2021 02:43
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Flyinglemur posted:This weekend Shyne went downhill pretty quickly. She made it obvious that we couldn't wait until Wednesday's home visit so we took her in this morning. She stopped eating yesterday evening and had been spending more and more time in her safe spot under our bed. She came out to the kitchen at breakfast but wouldn't come near me and went right back to hiding. As we were waiting for the vet to call back she came out to the couch to sit between us. I snapped this picture right before she got down and went to the bedroom again I gotcha, when you upload there are share links on the image to post instead of directly to the gallery. I imagine she had a good, loving life!
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Nov 2, 2021 02:51
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Coolnezzz posted:I gotcha, when you upload there are share links on the image to post instead of directly to the gallery. Thank you so much. I'm an old, exhausted person.
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Nov 2, 2021 02:52
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Flyinglemur posted:Thank you so much. I'm an old, exhausted person. Me too, me too. My cutest pic recently is a painting someone made for the director of this non-profit thrift store I do IT work for occasionally.  Edit: oh this is not a cat for the cat thread, so here's a pic of my friends dog.  Edit 2: I cannot post here without a cat pic, these are a coworkers! 
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Nov 2, 2021 02:58
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Back cat looks like it's biting front cat's butt. Accurate depiction.
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Nov 14, 2021 22:49
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I miss my kitty, fortunately I at least get pictures of her again.   
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Nov 16, 2021 03:20
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 This is the guilty look of a spaghetti bandit who just boldly came up to us on the couch and stole and consumed a strand of Fettucini Bolognese from my girlfriend's bowl when she wasn't looking.
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Nov 16, 2021 05:34
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Elviscat posted:I miss my kitty, fortunately I at least get pictures of her again. There is so much sass in that face, I love her 
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Nov 16, 2021 06:13
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My foot warmer.
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Nov 22, 2021 12:03
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Neighbors cat Heffie comes to visit every day  His brother comes sometimes too 
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Nov 22, 2021 23:07
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Mu Zeta posted:Neighbors cat Heffie comes to visit every day Ours are only 10 lbs. / 7 lbs. (still a kitten) so it might be my perspective 
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Nov 23, 2021 02:30
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They're probably at least 50% fluff, so I'd say normal cat-sized. They look a little bigger than my  , and he's not especially huge.Love that footwarmer higher up too. I've got one that's similar but he's a little too enthusiastic with his punishments for moving.
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gloom posted:Are those luxurious cats enormous, or is it just a trick of perspective? Heffie is huge. Brother is more normal but they are both very fluffy. They must be a mix with forest cats. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQFQsVnxuhY
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