WORST BIRTHDAY OF MY LIFE

[glasshand]

Very sorry to hear it. Just the other day I had to take one of my cats to the vet, and it was nothing serious, but it made me reflect on the pain of losing pets. When you get a pet you know that you're going to see them die someday, and when I think about losing the playful little black kitten I picked up, or the big three-legged tomcat who turned out to be, against everyone's assured statements, the most affectionate companion ever, it just about makes me not want to ever have one in the first place. If there's any solace, it's in knowing that you gave Bonnie Prince Charles the best life you could have.

[Tglo]

I can really empathize cause my grandfather who I love and respect dearly passed on my 34th bday. I stopped all bdays after that and now I'm 59 and still hate that day with a passion. I always saw cats as someone that craps and eats but nothing to do with their people. But when Pharoah came into my life all that changed. He is loveable and smart and so handsome that I've given that little boy my heart. So I do get it bro and I cry with you over the loss of your friend.

[Tsukiyomi]

Firstly and most importantly, I'm truly sorry for your loss. I'm glad to see you were big enough to admit your feelings and how this has hit you.

I still want to say Happy Birthday, even just as an acknowledgement of the day, despite there being nothing happy about it. But I know you know what I mean.

When we lost our Malamute it hit me incredibly hard and I knew I wanted my daughter to be brought up around dogs. We rescued a Great Pyrenees when my daughter was 2 1/2. Ten years later and that dog is on her last. She's survived two fights with big tumours (one about the size of a grapefruit hanging off the side of her face), and in the last few weeks her back legs have intermittently stopped working and I've been having to carry her down into the yard and back to do her business. At 13, going on 14 now we know we're on borrowed time with her, and every morning we walk in we expect the worst and hope for the best. None of this is as important as what you're going through, I mention it purely to let you know that you absolutely have my/my family's sympathy.

And I apologise for the 'smiley heart eyes' emoji at your post with all the photos, but it was the nearest to an appropriate acknowledgement to those great pics.

[MattS]

Very sorry to hear about this, TMC.

Matt

[JeffBeck]

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He was the best sort of cat. A nice, chonky, unit of a boi.

[toomanycats]

Bonnie liked to sleep like this. He'd mash down a depression in the sofa cushion with those fat paws of his and fall into it with his feet in the air.

Bonnie and Shawnie.

"Where's the Easter Bunny? I ate him."

Bonnie's tummy was the color of a perfect latte.

"So ya went cheap and got the import PRS."

[jtcnj]

Sorry for you loss, hope your gig went well and gave you some peace and solace.

I was just reflecting yesterday while trimming the rose bush planted next to one of our dogs Maggie, who passed some years back.
I always come to the same place -the joyous times and memories of your time together is always worth the heartache of loss.
Whatisit that ol' Limey poet fella Tennyson said about better to have loved and lost than not at all...? yeah.

A respectful birthday wish to you -an acknowledgement that one has survived another year on this at times hellish rock.
Be well.

[JimyTheAssassin]

Sorry for your friend passing on brother. Mojo sent. Pets have a weird way of filling parts of us that wouldn’t seem to exist without them here to fill them.


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[tony1852]

So sorry

[toomanycats]

Bonnie has cameos in both of these videos.

[nomadh]

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.

Beautifully said. Reminded me of my last trip back with my blankita. We drove down from the specialty vet up north after then confirmed they couldn't do anything for her and put her to sleep with all of us there. We were taking her to our local to be cremated but we just kept petting her as she seemedt to sleep between us and just kept driving miles past the place until she was too cold to keep pretending.
God I hate these threads.

[RedLesPaul]

Sorry to hear about Bonnie [mention]toomanycats[/mention] my wife and I had to put our 18 year old Himalayan down on my birthday some years back. It sucks and it never gets easier.

[Mossman]

Sorry for your loss, TMC... It's never easy to lose one of them little guys.