CW: pet death Sometime during the night of January 16th, 2021, my old tom Snookerdoodle passed away
CW: pet death Sometime during the night of January 16th, 2021, my old tom Snookerdoodle passed away at the age of nineteen. I had been concerned about his recent lethargy, weight loss, and reduced appetite, and had planned to set up a vet visit, but unfortunately he passed too soon and too suddenly for that. Snookie was the last of my family pets. He came to us at around a year and a half year old, from a friend who could no longer keep him. He was scared and skittish from the start, and spent most of his first few weeks with us hiding in our hall closet, in a crawlspace at the back which extended under the stairs. My mom crawled in through the coats and boots, day after day, to bring him food and give him company. Eventually he emerged, proving to be a deeply loving creature, always desperate for attention. He was my mom’s cat first and foremost, until the progression of her illness forced her into full time care, but he adored people. As long as he had human company, and maybe some tuna treats, he was content. I confess I sometimes found it difficult in the last years of his life to give him the attention he craved, because his craving was without limit. But I tried to keep him safe and loved and happy. He is the longest-lived cat I ever cared for, and I can only hope his life was a happy one. It’s already eerie to experience such silence in the house. Sometimes I swear I can hear his claws clicking on the floor, or I half expect to find him in his favorite winter spot, curled up by the heating vent in the bathroom. Believing as I do in an afterlife of some kind, I hope above all that he has been restored to his health and youth, and reunited with my mother, similarly restored and able once again to look after him. I know that my memories of him will fade with time. But for now, they are fresh: his tiger stripes and golden eyes, his stubbornness, his persistence, his greed for affection, treats, sunlight and catnip. I’ll miss him. Rest in peace, old man. (at Medford, Massachusetts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKSW3_nDpKO/?igshid=akvou6k7gsb2 -- source link
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