#cw pet death
Night-night. Love you mommy.
Nico passed away peacefully in his sleep later that day, about 10:20pm, September 24th, 2021, aged about 9.5, exactly 2 weeks shy of the day we found each other at the pet store 9 years ago.
Sad news today…last week, after a sudden prolonged seizure, our anxious bean Phichit passed away unexpectedly. The vets said there was nothing to be done, so we held him as long as possible in a warm towel and made him as comfortable as we could until he passed. Nico is managing, confused, but managing, so we’ll be okay, it’s just very sad in our house right now.
We’ll miss you, special little beeb, you overcame so much and we all loved you lots.
Really proud of this one. Tried a new way of mixing my paint and pouring medium, which was putting it in a glass baby food jar, dropping in a few pearl beads, closing it tight and shaking until completely mixed. I’ve always had a problem with unmixed paint clumps, and this solved that problem entirely, except I need to come up with a smart way to stop pearls from falling out the jar!
Its been a hard month. We lost Princess this week. It was peaceful and we were lucky to afford a nice, comfortable place that really allowed us to grieve in a way I’ve never been afforded before. She’s being cremated too, I’ve never had a pet cremated and I’m so happy we were able to.
This, immediately after the snowstorm knocking our running water out for eight days and giving us some pretty spicy new trauma, has been so much to deal with. I’m so exhausted.
But I did this painting yesterday, I took my time with it and didn’t stress and it turned out beautiful. I was losing my confidence in my work, but this is progress!
Vol’jin, our beloved little rat, passed away yesterday morning.
I wasn’t able to be there, as my partner has Covid-19, but I know that Vol was with his Da, he was being loved and looked after, as he has been since the day we brought him home.
I’m heartbroken, but I take a lot of comfort in knowing that Rhys and I did what we could to ease his passing to some degree, and we gave him everything we could during his life. Endless, unconditional love and lots of treats.
I’ll miss you, Vol. I’ll miss you a hell of a lot.
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Long story short, my cat Bear is at the end of his (very, very long) life. However, his last vet visit took literally all of the money I had left, leaving me unable to afford to take him to the vet for a peaceful release + cremation.
In the week since we lost are sweetheart Wedge, Locksley has been aggressively adopted by my two cats, Ella and Story. Before, Story would begrudgingly accept the dogs as part of the landscape of our home but Ella wouldn’t spend more than 12 seconds in the same room as them.
Now, if Ella isn’t bullying Locks into eating, he’s snuggling him while he sleeps. And when we have to leave Locksley home alone, Story takes up watch over him because he’s never been home alone without Wedge before and as long as she’s with him, he doesn’t panic.
We are pretty lucky to have these cats.
Hello arty friends. Do you think it would be hard to make a sketch like this that looks like Wedge?
In a quick follow up, do you think I, with my needle phobia and uncertain pain tolerance, could sit still long enough to get that memorial tattoo on my wrist? I mean how long would it take, really?
I miss him so much.
Every therapist I’ve ever had has told me to use writing as a form of sorting through my thoughts and feelings, so I wrote this. I called it Once Upon A Wedge because I always planned to write a story about Wedge, who was a miracle.
So if you want to know more about Wedge and how magic is sometimes something we choose rather something that just happens to us, you can read it here:
r/dogs - [RIP] Wedge, rescue, two
And I was gonna add a sweet picture of him but found this instead and it seemed particularly relevant. It’s one of many paw prints he left on my bed.
