Beat: My cat is dying

[Triumph36]

daliman,

sad story - made more unfortunate by the fact that you won't be getting any more pets.

[Teh1337zor]

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[dallas14]

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i found my cat in a mangled state 3 days ago when i went out for a smoke at around midnight. it didnt seem to have been hit my a car or been attacked or anything but it was all contorted up and stiff lying on its side with its mouth open and its eyes really widely open. it was breathing really heavily and prefusely.

i went inside to get my girlfriend and my sister and her boyfriend. when they came out my sister suggested i try to move it. i obliged but when i attempted to roll it over slightly the cat wailed, like really screamed, ive never heard a cat make a noise like that before. it then proceded to cough and puke up a bloody mess with bits of flesh/organs in it.

i coudnt stand to see it suffer when there was obviously no hope for it and since there were no vets open at midnight-1am i had to put it out of its misery. i did this by using a cricket bat to hit it on the head with. after the first blow it started to twitch but it was obviously dead. i struck it two more times and the twitching stopped.

i picked the cat up and it had gone to being rigidly stiff to lifelessy limp. the semi barbaric act i had just commited really struck me hard. i know i ended the cats misery when it had obviously no chance of survival but i had still killed a pet i had really grown attached to and it saddened me immensly.

i buried it then in a field next to my house and went inside to shower and mourn. i had one of those rare AHA moments when drying off my girlfriend saw how upset i was and said "well, now you really get what being cruel to be kind is".

thought id share

edit: we think the cat swallowed poison as my neighbour told me in the shop he had a rat in his workhouse and had put down meat with rat posion on around his garden.

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[jackflashdrive]

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and that better place is the freezer

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son of a bitch beat me to it

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You guys talking about the freezer -- is that a reference to the movie "Rubin and Ed"? I thought I was the only one who'd seen that movie.

Daliman very sorry about your cat.

[SuperNooB]

yah man -phew ! that was a long read .

[Daliman]

Well, I brought him to the vet today, and he was barely moving around. The vet was over an hour late, and while I was waiting in the room for her, Bill peed, then started doing what looked like streches, but I knew were likely death throes. I called for one of the vet techs to get the doctor, and looked for signs of lfe. He groaned a tiny bit, and his eyes were still open, yet completely unresponsive. His chest was no longer heaving as it was few minutes before, yet there was still a faint heartbeat. The vet finally came in and told me what I already knew; there was nothing that could be done. She gave Bill an injection and at 2:29 PM CST, his heart beat for the last time.

Goodbye Bill. Thanks for everything.

[Dominic]

that sucks, A...I spent over $3 grand on my cat last year so it wouldn't die and I would probably give up an arm for my dog. I know what it's like to lose a pet.

Nothing wrong with grieving, nothing wuss-like about it at all.

People who own, love and care for their pets are doing something great.

[T-God]

Sorry Dali.

Cats are great pets, it must be very hard to lose Bill.

It won't be too long til I'm in your spot with my 21-year-old cat.... I hate thinking about it, and it will be very hard when she passes. I can only offer my sympathies.

He went peacefully.

[XXXNoahXXX]

Never liked cats, got two to appease my girlfriend. Now I'm obsessed with them. I even worry about them like they're my children. As soon as I get home, I can't rest til I've seen them both and know they're ok, and I worry about them when I'm gone overnight.

It's only been a year, so I can't even imagine what it'd be like after 5, 10, or 20 years.