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toomanycats wrote: ↑Sun Jul 26, 2020 8:01 am This may sound odd, but Bonnie spent the night in the refrigerator last night. The hospital put him in a zip up biodegradable cloth bag and on the way home in the car I had him laying in the front seat. While driving I reached over, unzipped the bag, and caressed his soft fur. He was still warm. It was extremely hot yesterday afternoon and I didn't have it in me, either physically or emotionally, to dig another hole in the cat graveyard. So like I said, Bonnie rested peacefully on the bottom shelf of the fridge last evening. It was perhaps my one act of selfishness in regards to him, keeping him with me just one more night.

It's now the relative cool of the morning. I have just come in from putting Bonnie in the ground in a nice shaded spot in the shadow of the pine forest a stones throw from my house.

Many reading this know what it is like to dig a grave for one who you have loved and known most closely. I mean to actually use your own hands, strength, and will to pierce the resisting earth, stones, and roots; burrowing down into the bosom of the soil to form a cradle which will embrace the body of this being who you have known so intimately as a living soul with the light of life in their eyes, with breathe, feelings, love, and fears. And you place them in this dark place and cover them with loam, letting the earth take that assemblage of their physical being back into itself, with the trees taking their nutrients and minerals via the roots into themselves, and bacteria, insects, and worms likewise feeding on the energy of their corpse.

And so Bonnie is now curled up in the ground next to Schopie, Moo Moo, Cotton, Bumble Bee, and a little kitten that didn't live long enough to have a name. I placed a few heavy concrete blocks over his resting place and lay some white hydrangea flowers on top. Fare-thee-well Bonnie Prince Charles.

Thank you sincerely for all of your kind thoughts everyone. It does help to share my grief, knowing that there are many animal lovers here who understand what I'm going through.

And now I have just one more reason to play the blues. Got a gig this afternoon at Shadow Line Vineyards in Granite Falls NC. If you're anywhere close by, come on out this afternoon and we'll tip a glass of wine together and shed a tear over the noble Bonnie Prince Charles.