Goodbye Nala
Oct. 19th, 2023 06:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kayreI took Nala on her last trip to the vet today. It was time but it was really hard... made both harder and easier by the fact that she slightly perked up today.
There were always cats in my childhood home, literally from before I was born. I bought my first cat of my own a month after getting married, and all our cats' lives have overlapped since then. We boarded all our cats for a few weeks while selling a home; other than those weeks, I've never lived in a house without cats. Tonight will feel weird.
We want to do a bit of work in the house before we adopt another cat. But we'll have a cat, or cats, before Christmas. Meanwhile, I'm missing Nala, and a whole lifetime of cats. Simon, Ami and Amber from my childhood. Limber, Smoke, Fractal, Laura's extra special Mezzo Forte, Rufous, Gypsy, Oscar and Felix. And now Nala.
There were always cats in my childhood home, literally from before I was born. I bought my first cat of my own a month after getting married, and all our cats' lives have overlapped since then. We boarded all our cats for a few weeks while selling a home; other than those weeks, I've never lived in a house without cats. Tonight will feel weird.
We want to do a bit of work in the house before we adopt another cat. But we'll have a cat, or cats, before Christmas. Meanwhile, I'm missing Nala, and a whole lifetime of cats. Simon, Ami and Amber from my childhood. Limber, Smoke, Fractal, Laura's extra special Mezzo Forte, Rufous, Gypsy, Oscar and Felix. And now Nala.
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Date: 2023-10-20 03:22 am (UTC)I am so sorry. It's always hard, even when they're telling you it's time. {hugs}
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Date: 2023-10-20 04:21 pm (UTC):hugs: