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First of all thank you all for helping me understand our sweet "kitty", you helped me, her and my family understand each other, your advice helped kitty live as happily as possible, unfortunately kitty passed away a mere 10 minutes ago.
She was laying on the garden as usually when the sprinkler system went on soaking her, she began cryng so I took her in, she stood still not moving but alive, she climbed up me as usual, so i assumed she was just cold, so I bathed her on warn water, dryed her, even played with her a little, tough she still wouldnt dare to get up, so assuming she was just scared from the "splash" i took her outside and placed her in her hideout.
She just layed there asleep, I put her favorite (read only, I got her a box full of toys today) toy with her and went to school and to the pet shop to buy said toys, when I arrived she was laying in the exact same position i left her in, thats when I knew something was up. There wasnt any vet available at 10 pm so we took her in robes and stayed with her till she passed.
Tough the way she went was beatiful, she reached for me outside her robes and put her head and one of her feet on my hand, she even let our dogs come close (I think the dogs sensed what was up as they where even crying) and rubbed her head against them; a few minutes later she went back in the robes and began moving frenetically, then she just threw up some weird liquid, then she went to her box and simply fell, a few seconds later she stopped breathing and died, when I disposed of her little body I noticed blood coming out of her mouth, the poor little thing cared to show us love when she was suffering so bad, cats may think they are the leaders, but they sure love their "subordinates".
Im so sad, Even if im a guy, that kitten was like a son to me, she depended heavily on me, cried after me, trusted me, a relationship that lasted a mere six days feels like it lasted for years, and as I say I thank you guys for helping me out, tough Im not ready for another cat and will not be in quite sometime, my dogs also need me and bringing another kitten in my life would be as harmful for them as it is for me,
Thank you very much, from me, my family and kitty, who wherever she is now is happier than ever.
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I am so sorry.
What you need is some grieving time, and let this pass.
The Loss of an animal is hard, especially when that companion was a large part of your life.
Dogs think their human, Cats know they are .
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| OH, how I hurt for you! How lovingly you treated her and how much she loved you! I am so sorry to hear this news. I pray for God's peace for you as you cope with this loss. Yes, you need some grieving time - all the time you want. And I can understand that you may not want another cat for some time, if ever - but having a cat is not a requirement for this site. Come back and tell us how you're doing, tell us what you're doing, as you are able, read our stories and enjoy them. We care, not only about our cats, but about each of the people here who love them, and we care about you.
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I am so sorry for your loss. She sounds like she did love you and that she wanted to show you that just before it was too late. As everyone else said you need to grieve and take as long as you want.
  
"The really great thing about cats is their endless variety. One can pick a cat to fit any kind of decor, color scheme, income, personality, mood. But under the fur, whatever color it may be, there still lies, essentially unchanged, one of the world's free souls." Eric Gurnery
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Losing a beloved pet is like losing a piece of yourself. You don't know what to do. You don't know how to go on. You cared for her so deeply and so much that now that she is not there, you feel lost.
It's okay. Feel lost. Feel torn apart. Your emotions will be like a roller coaster for some time, and that's okay. Your heart will tell you what to feel when you need to feel it to help ease the pain. And though there may always be a small hole in your heart for your kitty baby, soon, your heart will learn to open up and love again. We look forward to when you are able to adopt another kitty. Not a replacement. Never a replacement, because no one cat can ever replace another cat. But another companion for your heart to love. It is obvious that your heart has so much to give. Just not right now.
You are in all of our thoughts and prayers, and we are here for you whenever you need to talk.
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thank you all, it indeed was painful, she was just 7 weeks old, but im better know, tough I forgot once that she passed and went looking for her in the dryer (thats where she liked to hide at times) just to remember what happened. I was even critisized by a friend who told me as a joke I just left her to die.
Truth be told i did not do so, we looked for the vet and he was unavailable (11 pm),all we could do was try to get her better and wait, It feels like hell to hold your dead kitty, you feel the abscence of life, theres no more playfullness, no more licking, no more rubbing againt you, all you get is a very cold feeling as her body was limb, it feels like something isnt there anymore. I just wish I was able to see her decease sooner, I wanted to have a full grown kitty who played with the dogs, who was happy and who eventually gave us the joy of more kittens ( You can criticsize me here, but I was willing to keep as most of them as I could, I have many catloving friends and relatives who would have agreed on keeping them, (I know, way ahead of thinking, but I like thinking what could have happened if she had lived)).
I do miss her, I mean I made her sociable, taugh her (or at least gave her enough confidence) to climb, played with her, feed her, raised her, and made sure she got vaccines and deparasitation, I made her as happy as I could, and she showed that, I miss her blue eyes, and her sometimes anoying calling for me in the middle of the night.
She was not my first cat tough, our first one we rescued from kids who where throwing rocks at her when I was 8 years old, she gave birth to seven kitten all who died an hour of two after they where born, "tommy" died a few weeks later, having lived with us for 2 years, according to the vet due to a heart failure.
The second one was a male, who was 1 month old, my mom raised him, then he got introduced to doggy, our female french poodle, who inmediately adopted the kitten and raised him as her "pup" (it was hillarious seeing tom go up a tree only to be barked at by our dog, making him climb back down and return to the dog), he lived 5 years with us, he was killed by one of our neighbors workers. We found tom across the street with his skull crushed and a bloody baseball bat besides him.
It seems every kitten that comes home dies, thats why im afraid to bring another one in, tough the one I have loved the most was kitty as I raised her (she didnt get along all that well with our dogs), it seems it is my destiny to have no kittys at all.
Tough for now im gonna be 100 percent dedicated to my dogs, I will adopt one kitten (maybe 2 so that they can play!) in the not so distant future, tough there are no shelters where I live, I will make sure to get one, feral or not, to raise and make happy!, once again thank you very much for having helped me get trough this tragedy.
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| You lost one cat from a neighbor's worker killing it with a baseball bat, and now this one was poisoned. You rescued a kitty from kids who were throwing rocks at it. My friend, your neighbors are sickos. Dogs can be taught to accept cats, and the safest and best place for a cat is 100% inside. In your other post about finding Kitty's family, you said there were 3 kittens left, and you could take 2, possibly 3. Take the kittens, all 3 if possible, keep them indoors, and train your dogs to accept them. They will get over having to share attention from you. Anybody who puts poisoned tuna in a private yard is guilty of trespassing as well as animal cruelty, which is a felony in all 50 states. Have you contacted your local Humane Society about this? How do you know whoever poisoned your kitty isn't doing the same to other people's pets? People who abuse animals have been shown to advance to abusing people; where do you think serial killers get their start? Today it's your cat; tomorrow it could be a neighborhood kid. And then somebody's wife or girlfriend gets beaten up or shot to death. Whoever is doing this needs to be caught and dealt with. Sorry to sound so harsh when you're grieving, but this is reality; the best way to avenge the kitty's death is to find out who did this and get them put away before they graduate to kids or other people. Found out more about the poison that your brother found, see where it came from, that could be a clue to who did it, where they got it, etc.. Work with your local police department, etc., because this is not some teens having fun, this is dangerous.You need to make your area aware of the dangers this person is posing to the community, and definately your neighborhood needs to stop seeing cats, or any other animals, as something they can torture and kill for kicks. Check out the ASPCA website, www.aspca.org, as well as the Humane Society's website, and read up on how to educate your neighborhood on the issues of animal abuse. I assume you put kitty's body in the trash when you said you didn't bury her; most communities have regulations against putting dead animals in the trash. Besides, you could've saved her body as evidence against the slime that killed her.
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Sorry for your loss, today we lost our kitten too, tough if you can adopt all 3 adopt them, if not contact me via a PM and Ill see what I can do, if we are from the same city I could take the 3rd kitten.
You should keep you cats inside at least by night, I have raised cats all my life and the outdoor ones always have lived the shortest time, tough you can take your kitten outside, just make sure there are no ways of them going out of the yard, even if it seems impossible cats find ways of "going up". If you have the money buy an enclosure so your cats can enjoy the outdoors, if not build your own, Ill PM you a link on how to do so (i could post it here, tough I dont have it right now)
Once again, sorry for your loss, hope kittys family ends up in your hands!
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