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lilteach3234

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I just thought I'd share a cute story. Since I've been home, my cat has not left my side. She follows me everywhere. At night she lays right next to me and tries to "purr" me to healing. She's always been close to everyone else in the house and would most times find one of the kids or hubby to sleep by. If I get up to go to the restroom, she follows me and waits on me. If I go get a drink, she is right there.

Hubby bought me a new recliner and now she is laying at the foot of it when I prop it up. She lays right up next to my leg.

Isn't it funny how animals can sense something? Sometimes they can be our best friend.
 
cats are the strangest creatures, and can be very intuitive. Ours hadn't slept in our bed for years (she picks a "spot", sleeps in it religiously for two weeks to 6 months, then picks another "spot" . . . ); when my MIL (who lived with us) died in hospital, she was back in our bed that very night, and followed us around, too.

PS there's a photo of her in my album if you want to see her
 
Dogs are like that, too. It'll be interesting to see how my two "pups" respond, because they seem to sense illness intuitively. I also have a 19 year-old cat who's going to be pretty lonely while I'm in hospital, but if she survives my absence I expect her to be even more cuddly than usual. I actually worry about her more than anything, since she's getting subcutaneous fluids for old-age kidney problems. My one reassurance is that LittleOwl worked in her stepmother's vet office and has experience in poking cats with needles.
 
I am sure our pets know when something is wrong. After my AVR, my dog slept right beside me every night. I was downstairs on the couch and he usually is upstairs in our room. Not when I was home from the hospital. When I finally slep upstairs so did he. They just know.;)
 
I am sure our pets know when something is wrong. After my AVR, my dog slept right beside me every night. I was downstairs on the couch and he usually is upstairs in our room. Not when I was home from the hospital. When I finally slep upstairs so did he. They just know;)Oops sorry about the duplication.
 
Thanks for sharing your story about your cat.
I am very thankful God made animals as a part of His creation. They can teach us so much about life and ourselves.

My late dog Pongo always jumped in my lap while I sat in my recliner. After my surgery, she seemed to sense something was wrong. She did not start jumping in my lap again until several weeks after the surgery.

Karl
 
We lost our sweet furbaby dog a few months after my second OHS. I thought my heart truly would break from losing her. In all the years we have been in our house, we have had three dogs, one after the other, and it is just too hard losing them for me to agree to bring home another. On the other hand, I know so many need rescuing from shelters......
 
We lost our sweet furbaby dog a few months after my second OHS. I thought my heart truly would break from losing her. In all the years we have been in our house, we have had three dogs, one after the other, and it is just too hard losing them for me to agree to bring home another. On the other hand, I know so many need rescuing from shelters......

I hope you'll change your mind and adopt a needy mutt. It's hard to lose them, but when you can save them from euthanasia, or just make their lives better, its so rewarding an act that it really does make up for having to let them go eventually. Helping right the wrongs of other people is one of the best things we human beings can do. I can't imagine life without a dog now, even though one I adopted before our present goofballs was only with us for five years. And we've rescued all manner of stray cats who'd otherwise have become road kill, so I'm glad we do it. They enrich our lives immeasurably, and I think we do theirs as well.
 
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Awwww......now don't go reminding me of how much I miss my Labrador.......sniff sniff.

A couple of months before my OHS we had taken in a dumped kitty, Mitten, and she now rules the house.
Yesterday she sat on a chair at the dinner table with us and happily nibbled on bits of meat.
Then she has a drink of water and wanders into the living room to curl up on the love seat for an evening nap.
Rough Life.....;)
 
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