Comments on: Caturday night

By: Mog

Mog — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:06:26 +0000

He’s so adorable, love the pics. Keep them coming. :)

By: Meryl Yourish

Meryl Yourish — Mon, 19 May 2008 04:15:32 +0000

Sunlight, it’s a Sony DSC T100.

I use a Samson CO1U USB microphone. And no, no video. I’m not that much of a narcissist that I want to be on camera. I like the radio thing. It makes me much more anonymous.

By: Meryl Yourish

Meryl Yourish — Mon, 19 May 2008 04:10:56 +0000

Nah. Nothing replaces my foot. Worse still, if I’m barefoot, he keeps licking my feet.

Here’s hoping he outgrows it.

By: Michael Lonie

Michael Lonie — Mon, 19 May 2008 02:27:00 +0000

So the rabbit is intended to replace your foot as the target of Tig’s play predation?

By: Meryl Yourish

Meryl Yourish — Mon, 19 May 2008 01:27:27 +0000

I’m still not really over losing Tig 2. The mourning lasts until you’re done mourning. There’s no deadline. There’s no “average.” There’s only your broken heart.

It gets easier. Having Tig3 has helped immensely, but I still get sad thinking about my Big Pig Tig (one of my names for him). I wish he was still out sleeping on the patio, “pinging” me from time to time with his mrowr. Or asking me to pick him up for a snug. Or purring himself to sleep on the pillow next to me.

So I guess my answer is: Don’t feel guilty for putting your cat out of his pain. Don’t beat yourself up over it. Think about how much better a life Shady had with you than he would have had as a feral cat. Or even with a lousy owner.

That’s what I think when I start getting too down about Tig. And then I go find my new boy and he makes me laugh.

By: annoying little twerp

annoying little twerp — Sun, 18 May 2008 22:10:30 +0000

Ooooo Meryl, I needed some Tig3 pix this week.
On Thursday we had to put our 11 y. o. sort of russian blue-Shady- to sleep.
He looked okay one week and less than 3 weeks later he was gone. He had lymphoma.
Though I have teenager, an 8 y.o. dilute tortie, and 2 nephew cats-my husband and I live in our friends’ basement-I feel like my heart has been ripped out.
Thursday I did the most difficult thing I’ve ever done and I feel guilty as h***.
I love Sasha, but Shady was very special.
Everyone loved him.
How do you get through something like this?
How long is it appropriate to mourn?

Sorry for getting grim on a Tig3 post-he’s a doll!
It’s just this is a road I’ve never been down.
Thanks.

By: Sunlight

Sunlight — Sun, 18 May 2008 21:00:58 +0000

Meryl- What camera are you using? and what do you use to record for SNN podcast? Are you doing video?

By: Meryl Yourish

Meryl Yourish — Sun, 18 May 2008 20:15:01 +0000

John, he’s a very snuggly kitten. First thing he does when I come upstairs after an absence is snuggle into my neck and inject me with more allergens via his little kitty kisses.

Elisson, will do. But it’s not like he’s not getting plenty of skritches. He lives in my office for now. I think he’s got a few more days in the office before I give him run of the house. Gracie is still mightily displeased, but for the past few days, he’s been getting down the stairs, and I’ve been picking him up and holding him in one hand while petting Gracie in the other. She no longer hisses immediately. But she does hiss eventually.

I think they’ll be fine.

By: Meryl Yourish

Meryl Yourish — Sun, 18 May 2008 19:22:09 +0000

Oh, it’s not a lolcat. Yet.

By: Dirk R.

Dirk R. — Sun, 18 May 2008 18:25:06 +0000

Oooooh! The indignity of having your little kitty behind immortalized in an LOL Cat. Tig gonna get you for this! ;-)

Dirk