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Hopefully pet owners understand (Dedicated to pets) ??

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McKinley McKinley
I apologize in advance for the length of this post and will explain why there is a watch pic in the pets thread. Bear with me if you will.

My family and I adopted our little 7 pound Bengal, Sara Sahara, several years ago at age 5. She came from a breeder and we made her a part of our family and enjoyed her company and gave her the best life we could for the next 6 years. In the Summer of 2024 we knew something was wrong, but it took over a month of vet visits and observations to figure out she was going blind, must have had splitting headaches from the cries and finally realized she had a brain tumor. On August 20th of 2024, we had to have her put to sleep, just after she moved from my lap to my wife's at the vet's office. It was only the 2nd time we had had to do this and it was very hard to do and deal with. I felt extremely guilty. Both for the pain she had endured and for finally relenting and putting her down. I would go out and kneel at the foot of her grave every day and talk to her and apologize. About 8 to 10 days after her passing I lucked onto this little 32mm, blue dialed, Seiko in a watch lot for only $5 for the bunch. The reason it is pictured in this post is I just picked it up from my watchmaker again today, after having a coil replaced. In early September of 2024, when I got the watch, I really felt like it was sent from Sara and she was telling me it was ok, she understood. Everyone who knows me knows I have a thing for blue dials and I wasn't buying any expensive watches because I was saving up to buy my Explorer that I had spoken for, so I thought Sara was reaching out and thinking of me. Yes, I know it is weird, but I truly believe Sara sent this watch to me as a sign that she was ok and in a better place and feeling her old self again. And yes, I am even weirder because we do have a pet cemetery out behind our house near the woods and occasionally, I do still talk to them and I always say I am sorry when I run the lawn mower over them. I know you folks all post up when a pet passes, but I honestly couldn't 18 months ago, but with Sara's watch now back in the fold, I finally felt I could. If you have gotten to the end of this novella, I appreciate you.

McKinley

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God bless. I know how the memories of a cat stick with you. I lost count of the years I put hairy down but she is still with me. I rescued Rocky (shown above) and his twin brother 4 years ago) Rocky staid closer to home his brother I lost when my wife mistakenly let him out when the coyotes were calling. I’ll never know what happened but I searched weeks for him. These “animals” spend a certain amount of time with us on earth, they teach us and move on. I hop I taught them something worthy.
 
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I remember the post of Hairy and of Rocky's brother. We have had gray cats in the past also, they are beautiful. Thank you for your kind comments and for all the other reactions these last few days.

McK
 
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It has been a terribly dry winter, but Max finally got to enjoy a bit of snow. He was having a ball.

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Walrus
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McKinley McKinley
Thank you..............we tell him that all the time. LOL
Well we have to tell them all the time, don’t we? Rocky had to be called the GOAT cat 3x daily.

I was seeking a long haired white cat for months with no success. I was going to rescues, had a post on a local discussion forum and asking around. I had 0 luck.

I have temporarily suspended my search due to a bunch of unexpected events popping up. I’ll get back to it. But it wasn’t that long ago I’d be in a supermarket parking lot and someone would approach me with a box of kittens asking me to take one home.

I think Covid changed that but we been out of that mess for a while. My ad did say “fluffy white kitty” which probably sounded strange to normal people.
 
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Walrus Walrus
Well we have to tell them all the time, don’t we? Rocky had to be called the GOAT cat 3x daily.

I was seeking a long haired white cat for months with no success. I was going to rescues, had a post on a local discussion forum and asking around. I had 0 luck.

I have temporarily suspended my search due to a bunch of unexpected events popping up. I’ll get back to it. But it wasn’t that long ago I’d be in a supermarket parking lot and someone would approach me with a box of kittens asking me to take one home.

I think Covid changed that but we been out of that mess for a while. My ad did say “fluffy white kitty” which probably sounded strange to normal people.
My wife and I are cat people too. We have always had between 1 to 3 at a time. Sometimes siblings like your gray cats. Both of them are/were beautiful. We once had an all white, all gray, and all black cat at the same time. All shades of the spectrum. This white cat is our last one for now. We are in our early 60's, retired and looking to travel more, well, the wife is, and he doesn't care to be left alone more than overnight and doesn't play well with other people, who might look in on him for us. Probably an off topic story, but I once saw a cat at the shelter, he was white with just the right amount of dark hair on the top of his head and around his ears to look like a rug. We already had two cats at that time and my wife wanted to think it over and we spent the night considering adopting another, but we did decide to go back and get him in the morning and had even picked out the name, Toupee, for him, but when we got there the next day, he was already adopted. I am still looking for that Toupee again some day. I hope you find your "fluffy white kitty" before too long.

McK
 
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My wife has been dog sitting (?) this 2 years old husky the last weeks. Its still a young wild puppy and have no time to wait for an old fart when we are out walking.
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Mauling hos toy.
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Let me smell that thing.
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Our cairn terrier “Smudge” during a trip to Portland, Ore., a number of years ago. He’d just heard a marmot, and was set to go chase it. Sadly, no longer with us.

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Jessica at the vet for teeth cleaning. 800$ later, two extracted plus cleaning etc, starving and high on pain meds at home.
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