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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Pfunk on August 22, 2003, 08:06:11 PM
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Perry for 12 years of loving companionship, words cannot express how much I miss this cat. Was in the room when they put him under, was the hardest thing in my life I have ever had to see. But it was quick and painless. I'm gonna miss you buddy, to the best wingman a guy could ever have.
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Pfunk,
I feel your pain bud, went through this christmas before last. My buddy Red passed on laying next to my bed. I never knew that it would affect me the way it did. His brother Leo is still around and I got him a couple of "neices" to keep him company while I am at work.
I dread the day Leo passes...
Perry...
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I'm sorry to hear about this PFunk. He looked like couragous, laid back cat. Cats and dogs both make good pets.
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He was the sweetest cat I have ever come across, he did so many little things to make you laugh and enjoyed snuggling immensly. Its a shame. He was diagnosed with a hyper thyroid last week. But yesterday he would not eat(usually ate 3 cans a day due the thyroid) didnt do much walking b/c he was off balance, and his head was perpetually cocked to one side. The vet said he more than likey had kidneys malfunctioning, and he had a abnormal heart murmr/enlarged heart. Even if the thyrod was treated, the other problems would become more persistent. I'm not sure if he was in pain, but he definetly knew something was wrong, I could see it in his eyes. In the end the vet and I concluded it was best for him to be put under. I cant stop crying b/c I miss the guy so much. Thanks for all the kind words
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Sorry to hear about Perry :(
That picture reminds me of the many times I've tried to take a pictureof my cat with it's eyes open and looking at the camera. Every time the shuttter or flash went off, he would close his eyes fast enough to be closed during the photo...hehhe
Cat's are great pets.
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That was a beautiful cat - Russian Blue right? Had one of those for a while, named him Czar Nick. One day he just left but I still see him in the neighborhood now and then.
Feel for ya - cats are great :(
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My wife and I had to put down an older cat she had for about 10 years. She developed a cancer at an injection site. Cats seem to be prone to cancer when given a certain vacination. When the tumor got too big and we could see she was hurting we took her in to be put down. Hated to do it but hated to see her suffer more.
Do yourself a favor and go out right away and get another cat. It really does help.
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Sorry about your loss pfunk. Take comfort and solace in the quality of life you gave your friend - rest assured he did.
S!
Nim
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Had the same thing happen to the Almighty Tiger Fuzz two years ago. All started when he ran head-first into the sliding glass door trying to tackle and kill a racoon. Ever since he had balance problems, and we had to take him in for prednazone shots. First one worked like a charm but wore off after a couple months. He wasn't as "Rambo" as he was, didn't move with his usual speed, turned into a real lazy cat. For him, that was weird, cause he was usually barreling around the house high on catnip. When he hung the corner to the hallway, and you heard his claws dig into the carpet, it sounded like a damned horse comin through! I had to take him in for a second shot cause the dizzy spells were getting longer. He lasted till I got him home and went into a siezure. He died in my lap on the way back to the vet, me givin him CPR cause he wouldn't breathe. I cried for hours that day, wonderin what I'd do without that cat being around.
Perry & Pfunk, I'll hoise a brew to both of you!
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Sorry to hear pfunk, it allways hurts losing a family member, and after all, that's what our pets are really.
Had to do the same with my blue heeler *****(Best thing to do is get another one to take his place, wont be the same, but will be just as good in differant ways.
Blue
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im truly disheartened pfunk. cats are the greatest pets and i have lost 1 that was with me from age 5 to 22 Cleo was incredible and is truly missed... :(:(
just remember they are always there in your thoughts!
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Pfunk, I hear ya man. My wifes got the exact same model. Exactly. He's 15 goin on 16 and hangin in there. She rescued him when he was a we mudball and loves him more than she does me I think.
He started getting skinny as hell and eating like a horse about 2 years ago. I told her to take him to the vet, but she piddled around thinking it was because we moved or something. Eventually I told her if she doesn't do something soon he will DIE! That got her.
She took him to a local country/horse vet who said, "humm, looks like he's getting old". She brought him back home and told me the same thing. I said Bah! Take him back to his old vets, they know him and he didn't look like this 6 months ago.
I'm not saying she didn't love the guy, but I think she was trying to prepare herself for his demise. Finally I prevailed and she took him back to the old vets place. They diagnosed him with the same thing(hyper-thyroid) plus complications. She started shoving those pills down his throat and he got a bit better, but started tearing his face and ears to shreads. She took him back. He lowered the dosage. He scratched. She took him back. It turns out that he is allergic to the only known medication for his condition.
The vet came up with a novel idea and got in contact with a pharmacist freind of his and they concocted this cream stuff with the medication mixed in and told her to rub so many millimeters of this stuff in his ears every day. After a few adjustments, they got it right and the Smokemiester is still alive and kickin. No more scratchin, but still eats like a horse. He puts back on about a half a pound every 6 months.
Dam cat looks like Bill the Cats 3rd cousin, but he's still kickin! I will hate it when he goes, my wife will go bannanas! Of course, I'll miss him also, but not his pissin in my shower!
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Sorry to hear that man. Growing up I had a cat that had to be put down when he was 17. I was 18. Needless to say i grew up with the little guy and i know how much it sucks to have to say goodbye to a best friend.
Just lost another friend about a month back. My two cats pushed out the screen in my apartment and went AWOL. Found the one (Thompson Jehovah Chuckledust) pissing off a murder of crows. The other, (Captain Beauregard SchmooDidley (ret) i couldnt find. The humane society called just today and said they found a body matching his description and asked me to come in and identify him. To Hell with that. :(
Sorry dude.
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My condolences to those that have lost cherished pets/loved ones.
The greater the sense of loss seems to equal the wonderfulness of their lives with us.
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We had two cats at work (ball bearing mouse traps in my reports)... They were huge males that I rescued as kittens. They were inseperable and hunted together and allways were together. even slept together. last month one of em got sick so we took him in... cancer, diagnsois.... 1 week to live.
Great big dufus's at work who claimed to hate cats were all bummed.
lazs
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I feel your pain too Pfunk, I have a 10 year old dog that I'm gonna have to prepare for when I have to put her down.. I don't want to think about it..
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had to have our 14 yr old dog put down...heart failure...
dogs and cats are a lot harder than rabbits and such...
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Your such an ass, Lets see how you feel when lose a loved one. I cannot believe that you would even reply in the way you did. Idiots like you should be banned from this board.
to all those who have been sympathetic as for Steve I cannot even begin to tell you how pissed of you have made me.
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SOrry bro... I had to put down a 17 year old lab I had since 1st grade.... I sobbed like a baby... it was terible I could not stay in the room.
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So hard, so frigging hard.
I totally understand what you are going through.
June 2000 I had to do the same thing with my dog. Too painful to even think about.
:( :(
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Originally posted by Steve
It was just a cat.
Man, what an utter ball of turdwax you are.
Sorry to hear about your cat, every person that is kind to an animal benefits the human condition, unlike the bozo quoted above.
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I see Steve is making friends again.
Sorry Pfunk....my condelences.
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Steve: Die.
Sorry about your cat Pfunk, mine was just diagnosed with renal/kidney failure, and I'm giving her 200 cc's of saline a day to sustain her comfort level.
I feel your pain, and I can barely stand thinking about how I'm going to handle the same situation when it comes soon.
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Don't worry man, they'll make more kitties. :)
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Sorry to hear it bud.
Old friends can't be replaced, but there's always an opportunity to make new ones.
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Sorry for your lose Pfunk.
My wiofe and I had to put down one of our dogs two years ago.
He was insaine and was biting me and out akita.
But i Loved him very much and Often feel guilt about having to put him down.
But at 90lbs I saw him as a liability If i gave him to someone because he had snapped at children in the past.
And On the advice of 3 vets we put him down.
Time will heal your wounds dude.
Keep your chin up.
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Originally posted by Steve
And I think anyone that refers to a cat as "a loved one" has got issues.
Anyone who flies a dweebstang has issues:p
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Sympathies Pfunk, looks like he was a great cat.
Seems Skuzzy's observation about threads degenerating into crap fests is on the money.
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Steve you are an incompasionate ****head, who the fuct are you to judge how someone should feel about their pet. Take your negativity elsewhere as I nor anyone else that has lost a pet cares to hear from you. You are a ****ing spineless man, YOU are the one with the issues if you have to talk all the watermelon you do in the MA and here on the boards. Do you get off on insulting others? Oh wait it's easy for you b/c you have never met the people you insult and can hide behind the anonimity of the internet. Would you care to come to Georgia and insult me personally, I doubt it. Your constant chittalking and negativity has been festering on these boards and in this game for far to long, I only wish that Skuzzy or HTC ban you from this community.
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My cat has hyper-thyroid, she suffered through it (without me knowing what was going on) for about 6 months before she started to get real thin and always needing to eat. There was also some problems with her peeing around the house. She also had an enlarged heart, due to the thyroid pumping her full of natural speed.
Vet prescribed her with Tapazole (methimazole) and she's been fine ever since, all the abnormalities went away except for the enlarged thyroid. The pills were pretty expensive, but I found a place that sells a 15 month supply for ~$180 plus shipping & handling.
I know this doesn't help know, but I think that if its possible - you may wanna find a new vetinary clinic. Just IMO.
-SW
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Its not just that Steve, its your overall lack of compasion, negativity, and general chittalk towards nearly everyone you interact with. Not to mention what business do you have saying that I have issues because I consider any family pet a loved one?
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Yes as a matter of fact I did, just as anyone that loves their pet.
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Originally posted by Trikky
Sympathies Pfunk, looks like he was a great cat.
Seems Skuzzy's observation about threads degenerating into crap fests is on the money.
Trikky, that avatar looks like a picture of Gilbert Godfreid(spell?) from ford fairlane:D
P.S. Hendrix right?
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You have singlehandedly turned a thread that was full of compasion and understanding to your own personal diatribe. Way to go I hope your proud.
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If I had to make the choice between my Dog who I loved and had had for 17 years or your worthless ass, I would take the dog and put you down.
Have a nice day...
Welcome to ignore.
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I'm not a cat person, but we have 2 of them. They earn their keep by keeping the mice and other vermine out of the house. It is amazing how household pets take on characteristics of family members. They do become part of the family. One is getting up there in age, I know the girls are going to be devastated when he passes.
P.S. Don't mind steve, it's not easy being a troll:p
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Originally posted by Sixpence
Trikky, that avatar looks like a picture of Gilbert Godfreid(spell?) from ford fairlane:D
P.S. Hendrix right?
Howdy Sixpence, yep it's Jimi but he's looking extra warped because of the 60 x 60 pixel format, and tbh I've never heard of the other guy you mentioned.
I've been pondering the use of avatars and I'm not sure he's appropriate, think I'm more of a Wiley Coyote.
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Damn, bad year for cats. My white kitten which grew into a really cool fat cat in just 3 months got ate by a coyote. We moved from the mountains into a nice neighborhood and got a awesome orange and white male that was the *****. Only cat I ever saw that slept on his back like a human, and wouldn't sleep in bed unless he used a pillow for his head too. He went out with my useless cat that we wished would run away last week and never came back. Off to the pound on Monday I guess. Some lucky bastard will be having a samich and sleeping 20 hours a day on my couch.
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Don't think it would be a discussion of anything other than you getting a mouth full of fist. And by making the snide comment of oh it was just a cat, you did indeed change the tone of the thread. You read it and saw that I was in pain and decided to mouth off just to make me feel worse. So when you mommy dies if someone you know said oh it was just a person no biggie would you not get upset? How about your mom was on her death bed and a buddy of your said yeah she was such a slut, wouldnt that change the tone of your conversation?
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Pfunk, know how you feel man. I felt worse loosing my dog than both my grandfathers combined.
She was a beautiful border collie/husky cross. Loyal, smart, and trouble maker. Had to put her down two years ago and if I think about it today, it brings tears to my eyes.
Took me about a month to get out of the funk. It'll pass eventually but the feelings are there to remind you how you felt for your cat. And the hurt is actually a good thing. It lets you know how precious lives really are, whether they're two legged or four.
Steve... leave it alone.
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Pfunk you got a spare seat for that trip?
Steve you're a dick of the highest calibre. This thread was started by someone who lost a good friend and came looking for a little empathy. Which he recieved. What possible goal did you expect to achieve by ****ting on his misery.
You should have listened to thumper's mom.
And may St. Francis, not St. Peter, meet you at the gates.
You POS.
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When I lived in Jax, Fl., I was in oceanway quite a bit. You can mess with their wives, but if you mess with their dawgs you're dodging buckshot...seriously, don't mess with a redneck's dog.
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This is the lazy one.
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Condolences man.
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Originally posted by Steve
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, POS. I'm sorry you werent/arent responsible and mature enough to care for something. Maybe if you werent such a sack of watermelon your parents would have allowed you to have a pet.
And this isn't about understanding about how someone can care for a cat or a dog or a butterin goldfish.
It is about respecting others and their feelings.
True this is just a game and just a BBS, but everyone is entitled to dignity and respect. Pfunk or his cat have never done anything to you, and you have no right to say what you did.
You owe Pfunk a sincere and honest apology.
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Steve I for one am not going to insult you.
It would not serve any purpose at all.
But You Did show a total lack of compassion to Pfunk.
You have to understand that right now his emotions are raw.
Wether you will ever understand the bond between a human and a pet I doubt it.
But for the sake of good old compassion towards another human being.
Perhaps you should have said nothing in this matter.
You know the old saying if you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all.
You have a right to your opinion and you have a right to post on the board.
But i think you would have been the bigger man to have said nothing.
PS.
I am 6'4" and 270lbs ex Us Army Sniper Bravo-4
And I cried like a baby everytime i have to put down an animal of mine.
Now If you think I'm silly or less than a man!
I will be at the next CON and i will be glad to discuss what being a MAN is all about .:D
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I am done letting Steve or anyone else know how I feel for that matter. And by the way you never said " I dont understand your feelings" instead you said that anyone who refered to a pet as a "loved one" has "issues" which is far from sayin that you dont understand my feelings, it was a direct insult plain and simple. Yes this is a public BBS BUT I figured there would be some amount of decorum in dealing with the issue. But Steve let that fly right out the window. My reason for posting is the same as others that post about lost squad mates, ill parents, or any loved one that has died or is in need. The comments that everyone with the exception of Steve have left here, have given me strength. Just as I thought they would. It's not about whether or not STEVE feels that it is abnormal for someone to feel the same way about a lost pet as say a lost family member, b/c in my mind and I'm sure in lots of other people's minds pets are in fact a family member that can bring just as much joy and laughter as a husband,wife,parent etc. As for this thread I am through, thanks again everyone (except..) for responding and helping me through a troubling time.
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Steve, this is your last warning. Leave it alone.
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If you like, you can discuss this with me off line at mister_fork@hitecreations.com.
Sleep of the anger. It's not worth it.
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Although I agree steve expressed his feelings in a blunt way, especially since somebodys cat just died, I can kinda see where he's coming from. I too am befuddled when I read where people compare pets to people.
As a kid I remember our dalmation following my brother on his bicycle to the local grocery store. friendliest playful dog there ever was. Some punk teenager ran her over and I got to watch her lay in a ditch and struggle to breathe and have convulsions a few minutes before she died. That horrible scene still hurts. There was nothing I could do. Thinking about it makes me want to find out who did it even now. Anybody who'd run over a kids dog and just leave without stopping is a real ass.
Having said that, that was when I was a kid. I've kinda left all those feelings behind as an adult. I've got a wife and three kids. They are my loved ones. We have pets, one of which is a dachsund It barks constantly. It's a good dog, friendly and all. If it died tomorrow, I doubt I'd cry for it. I'd feel bad for the kids I'm sure.
I'm not saying i'm "more of a man" for not being close to our pets. I just don't have time for it, whatever that means. I don't understand a person who loves an animal like they do a person.
No animal is worth the life of the poorest crackhead potato in the world. Human life is much more precious IMO.
Sorry pfunk for your cat dying.
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I didn't read the post, but I can sympathise with you. The day that hurricane Hugo hit, I had to find a vet that would put my cat out of his misery from feline lukemia. It took a few hours and I vividly remember the sounds coming from the back room of the emergency vet clinic that was open. He rode home on my lap and I felt the heat leave him, the stiffness come into him, and I petted him all the way home. Losing a loved pet is never an easy thing. I was awake for 40 hours moving my separated parents two houses contents out of harms way, and spent a few hours making, carving, and varnishing a box to bury my old cat in and making sure he was secure for the storm too.
It's a day I wont forget.
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As much as I "love" my cats and as much as it hurt when one of them passed on I can't really equate that feeling with the loss of a human loved one. It is different. My cats are strictly indoor cats, they depend on me for everything. I suppose the hurt comes in knowing I had done all I could but it still wasn't enough. It left me feeling wanting for some reason.
Pets provide a companionship much different than that experienced with other humans. They are totaly dependant on you not only for their food, water, and shelter but also for most of their entertainment. My cat Leo essentially waits all day for my return and when I do he and his "neices" are like my shadows. They try to comunicate with me so at times we sit there and "talk" to each other. (not always sure what is being said or agreed on but they seem satisfied after a bit)
When I found my two male cats and their sister they were barely walking. They were covered in fleas, wet and cold. I had just been laid off from a job so had some time on my hands. I took them in, bathed and de-flead them and had to feed them with a bottle just about every two or three hours for a couple of weeks until I could start feeding them more solid food. I was their parent in their eyes and of course they looked to me for all their needs. It changed my viewpoint of raising pets and having them. It required selflessness I wasn't acustomed to. In essence, it made a better human being out of me. I became much more patient and tolerant. The loss of one of those cats, a big orange Tabby named Red, was pretty devastating to me.
If one never has experienced a like situation one would never really understand the loss someone else might feel. I think saying "it's just a cat" was insensitive but I agree, my cat Red was just a cat.
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Please guys leave it alone, stop this debate that Steve singlehandedly created, this thread should not have degenerated to a debate over pets as "loved one's". I am formally requesting for Skuzzy to either ban Steve, lock this thread or both.
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Well I damn sure do miss my fat cat Max. But like VCR's, cat's are about $35 for shots and neuter to get them from the shelter. They get lost and break down about the same too.
It's the long time family pets that are the heartbreakers, so i get TFunks point. I just don't get all excited about it. I'd ignore anyone that responded negative about it too. Makes you sound like a tool when you get all bent about it, but maybe that pissed him off. Some people actually watch soccer and kill eachother over it too, so who knows.
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Originally posted by Steve
Pfunk, I just don't see how one can care about an animal as much as... to use your comparison, one's mother. That is just....whacko, imo.
What was the purpose of this thread, anyway? I don't get it.
I'm coming into the meat of this exchange late. I issued my sentiments and retreated, but that does not relegate my sympathies to empty well wishing. I have lived with pets nearly all my life, and believe them essential. They foster kindness to lesser beings, and a race that can show gratitute to a lower species can certainly find it within the inflated sense of self-worth of itself to feel a fellowship to humanity.
To argue human rights and worths over those of animal requires a crisis between the two, one that is still truly pending. Certainly, I would kill the last rhinocerous in existance to save any one of human beings, and would glady sacrifice rats, cats and rabbits in abundance if it meant a cure for AIDS, cancer, or even Ebola, but too much of these creatures are spent on frivolous pursuits to the point of sadistic appeal. The creatures are lower than ourselves so it is acceptable to let them die without remorse, so it seems.
The nature of humanity, and I do say humanity as that is what I was born into, is to work toward the living progress, and the progress of living. Claim divine right by God's proclimation, or ascension to the ranks of worthy by evolution, by destruction of the living, or by apathy of death, we cannot relinquish the one part of us that ties our lofty selves to the lower species: we will all be equal in the grave. We, and all that lives, live once and are dead for ever after. And is not the aspect of dying worthy of some sympathetic regard?
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Originally posted by Sixpence
This is the lazy one.
That one, or perhaps it's only the picture, has a crooked lipped looked to it, like it's snearing. Great looking cat!
NOTE TO ADMIN: Your censoring is interfering with my creativity!
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Originally posted by Steve
When the dog I grew up with died, I cried.
When my brother died, I cried.
My sympathies for your loss. I have lost only a parent, and such losses are suppose to be natural and normal. The feeling of losing a sibling can only be unimaginable and unaccountable. I dread it. I comes and cannot be stopped. It is progressive and inevitable, but I still dread it. I'm not even sure who I would want or suspect it for first, them or me.
I can only send my condolences.
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Mac, I appreciate your words, thank you. I miss my brother, what tore me up so much more was to see the hurt in my parent's eyes. My own pain was bearable(if that kind of pain can indeed be considered as such), but to see the hurt in their eyes was heartbreaking. I got over it as much as one can, in some ways my parents never did. We all will have to deal w/ grandparents, parents, even siblings dying.. parents expect to have their children out live them, I feel for any parent who goes thru what mine did.
My parents are still alive, I've considered their mortality as they are both in their 60's now. I'm sorry for your loss. I hope you have coped well w/ the loss of your parent..inevitable doesn't mean easy.
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I wanna say it, I really do, but I just wont stoop that low...but gosh I wanna.
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Originally posted by Trikky
Howdy Sixpence, yep it's Jimi but he's looking extra warped because of the 60 x 60 pixel format, and tbh I've never heard of the other guy you mentioned.
I've been pondering the use of avatars and I'm not sure he's appropriate, think I'm more of a Wiley Coyote.
From my days in the Army, I read an article on the nature of sergeants. As added appeal, they had a hand-drawn graphic of a crusty, rough and tumble sergeant in helmet and combat webbing, holding a teddy bear. I wish I had save it. That would be mine. But since I did not, I got another idea :D
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Strange how this thread which was about Pfunk's loss has changed. :rolleyes:
Sorry Pfunk. Sometimes people are just not nice but that is the nature of the board. People like to hide behind them.
Pfunk.
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PLEASE LOCK THIS THREAD
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Pfunk, I am sorry for your loss, and sorry for the disrespectful way some people chose to act, when they could have just as easily not posted at all.