#pet death

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

I'm struggling to keep things together right now but I'm going to let you all know now while I'm still able to string a sentence together.

I woke up for a midnight snack and I found Peppercorn dead.

It was sudden, he was fine literally a day or so ago, and it came out of nowhere. One minute he's his exact usual cranky self during his spring hunger strike, next minute he's gone.

I don't know how much online I'll be for a while

[gallusrostromegalus]

I'm afraid Mochi has taken a very bad turn. This can happen with cats being treated for kidney failure. We're at the vet's to put him to sleep now

Thank you everyone for your prayers and kindness over the last two weeks. This is very hard but it's time for him to go, keeping him with us would only prolong his suffering.

Here's the last picture I took of him yesterday. We've been so blessed to be able to share our lives with the world's Most Perfect Cat. He goes to my family in the afterlife now.

Thank you for everything, Mr. Mochi

[crimeronan]

gonna go watch obsession in theaters. very excited to have meta thoughts after experiencing it on the big screen. for now i just wanna say that bear killing his cat through the negligence of his poor choices (re: leaving opioids lying around) is a BRILLIANT metaphor and piece of foreshadowing for like. literally Everything that's going to happen in his relationship with nikki.

[kedreeva]

Aurora, on her final ride to the vet today.

In all my 16 years of keeping peafowl, I've never locked up a coop for the night without her. I don't know how I'm going to tonight. It feels wrong.

Back in the spring, when the tests finally turned up cancer, I made the decision not to put an old lady through treatment. I gave her the rest of a beautiful summer and autumn, a final week full of treats and free ranging, and a peaceful end.

May all my birds live so long and go so softly as my goodest girl.

[likesplatterpaint]

Friends, we lost Yamuel overnight to the infection. I’m so sorry. I know you all loved him too.

He brought us 5 years of wonderful Yamtics.

Please let his legacy of loving and being weird little creatures help you find joy in daily life.

I don’t know what I’m going to do without him.

[naamahdarling]

Owning pets is by its nature assembling a gallery of grief. They are far more temporary than we are.

Each one hits different. They don't necessarily get easier, nor do they necessarily get harder, and how much you loved them doesn't necessarily predict how hard the loss is to process. No matter how many losses you weather smoothly, there is always the possibility that the next will be a different pain that might break you open as if it were the very first one.

So I say this with love: There is not a hidden level of enlightenment where you have achieved a comfortable understanding of death/loss/grief and from then on will no longer struggle to process and put it in its place in the gallery. It will never be a completely predictable thing.

Please be very careful you don't ever expect that of others, and definitely not of yourself.

[great-and-small]

I cried with my tech after euthanizing her amazingly sweet geriatric rat but on the drive home underneath the ache of grief I realized I felt such gratitude. To be in a line of work where every single day I get to bear witness to the astounding human capacity for love. How could I ever doubt it when the depth of such emotion is demonstrated to me nearly every day? We’re such remarkable animals with the way we meaningfully bond with so many other species and the way we love things so hard. Not just dogs and cats but rats and birds, songs, stories, languages, food, each other; is there anything more human?

Tonight I will be toasting to celebrate the life of one very very beloved rat. How lucky I am to do the work I do and how lucky I am to be human!

[iliothermia]

We got back Cudi's ashes and nose prints and fur :) Thank you so much again to everyone who helped us out with the costs of his passing. I very much appreciate y'all.