Love Your Pets....

[booly]

Just a reminder to take some time to love your pets and show some more affection towards them. This goes without saying but a lot of people take the love for their pets for granted and don't realize how fast and unexpected things can happen.


I had this 3 year old orange outdoor/indoor cat named Buddy. He was very vocal and somewhat affectionate to humans. He wasn't scared by anything (including cars) except the vacuum cleaner. He always followed me out to my car when i left in the morning and he was always there waiting for me when i got home. He slept in my bed every night and he wasn't a bed hog, he stayed in his lil corner of the bed. For the most part i never really payed any special attention to him other than greetings and whatnot. He was the type of cat anyone could want and i enjoyed his company. Well this morning i am awakened by the doorbell at 7am to find my neighbor telling me there is something i should know about.

I'm sharing this after burying my 3rd cat in 5 years. I'm not looking for sympathy, i just want people to take the extra time to show/tell their pets how much they mean to them because shit happens and they might not be there when you really need them. so after you read this, go find your pet and show some love. Take that extra 20 min of your life to give them a longer walk. Buy them special treats because they deserve it. Make sure they have clean fresh water to drink. Bathe them and have fun with it, don't rage at them. Buy them a cool toy and ACTUALLY use it to play with them.


oh! Take pictures of your pets!!! i can't stress this enough.


inb4 cool story bro

[Eliseos]

Your post says one thing, your avatar says another.

[Null]

Incidentally, my dog died yesterday (on my birthday). Barked himself to death. Barked so much that his throat was paralyzed and he couldn't eat.

[Null]

Anybody else expect a furry thread?

[Cream Soda]

3 in 5 years? wtf did u do to the other 2? (and you didn't say how this one died either)

[booly]

3 in 5 years? wtf did u do to the other 2? (and you didn't say how this one died either)

I didn't feel it was necessary but if you must know...the first was a very old cat i grew up with of 17 years, it had ok health for its age but one day it never came home and after checking all over the neighborhood and visiting local shelters/animal control nothing came up. The second in-door cat i had when i was living in a coyote infested area, he got out and never heard from again. moved to a new area with a busy street and here the 3rd cat has been hit by a car. Needless to say i have great luck with cats.

[SubzeroDiabolos]

Inb4 shitstorm, I actually enjoyed your friendly reminder.

@Null: Sorry for your loss and late happy birthday.

[wipers]

I'm disappointed it wasn't a furry thread because that would provide countless hours of entertainment.

[Caiyuo]

This mad me sad. I hope you're able to cope and find some comfort. I'd lose my collective shit if anything ever happened to my dog.

[Mizango]

. He wasn't scared by anything (including cars)

Didnt afraid of anything?

[SubzeroDiabolos]

Didnt afraid of anything?

It doesn't matter if he wasn't kills aliesn.

[kuronosan]

What happened to the cat?

[Reality]

Stop
Letting
Cats
Outside

I learned that the hard way, after having to walk 2 blocks from the main road near my house where I found my cat dead, to my house with my cat in my arms

None of my cats are allowed outdoors anymore for mainly that reason, and of course it's against the law to let your pets roam the streets anyways.

Spay/Neuter, Keep indoors

Sorry to hear about your loss however

[Chicomagiko]

Cats and animals in general aren't capable of feelings or emotions. Instincts rule them completely. They are not he or she. They are just merely it. Objects with life but no soul. The sooner you guys see that the sooner you stop giving them more significance than they deserve.

[fishstix]

Not meaning to be offensive, but I'm reminded of the Simpsons and the episode where Lisa gets a new cats after they keep dying.

[gandorf]

I didn't feel it was necessary but if you must know...the first was a very old cat i grew up with of 17 years, it had ok health for its age but one day it never came home and after checking all over the neighborhood and visiting local shelters/animal control nothing came up. The second in-door cat i had when i was living in a coyote infested area, he got out and never heard from again. moved to a new area with a busy street and here the 3rd cat has been hit by a car. Needless to say i have great luck with cats.

You should try a pet goldfish. They can't wonder off and they can't get hit by cars.

[antihero]

This mad me sad. I hope you're able to cope and find some comfort. I'd lose my collective shit if anything ever happened to my dog.

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/3628/441325373.gif
You prefer an emotionally shallow animal?

[BRP]

Cats and animals in general aren't capable of feelings or emotions. Instincts rule them completely. They are not he or she. They are just merely it. Objects with life but no soul. The sooner you guys see that the sooner you stop giving them more significance than they deserve.

Thank you kindly for setting the agenda for this thread.

[Ishido]

You should try a pet goldfish. They can't wonder off and they can't get hit by cars.

That's what you think now.

[Furtwangler]

A few years ago during the summer when I was in 11th grade, My German Shepard's legs gave out (he was like 13, ) around like 11pm, and by 2am he was pretty much dying in the room next to me. Whenever I went over and crouched down near him he would stop whining and just be breathing really heavy, but whenever I left the room (there was nothing I could do, my dad didn't care, and mom had work at 6am) he would start whining again. He was gone around like 3:30 or so.

I'm just adding this for no apparent reason but he was a cool dog, and even if pets truly have no emotions whatsoever, I like to think they do and show them extra care regardless.