Any Tips for Getting Over A Pets Death :(

Thanks for the support guys.

Mekrel said:
The cat doesn't look that ill in the photo, but I'm guessing the vet is in the know more than me :)

Hope you start to feel better soon.
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He lost aload of weight over the past few weeks, so much so you could feel his spine and back legs through his skin. he had been having slight trouble sleeping because of the extra weight he was carrying in his belly and he was starting to have problems jumping up onto stuff.

You could tell he wasnt completly his happy self.
 
salami1212 said:
RIP thats so sad. My cats really frail now. I just hope im at uni before my cat passes away because I dont think i could bare it :(
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I was the total opposite, I wanted to be there when my Weimaraner died and would have felt awful if I wasn't around when she did.

The remaining pets are all fairly young though :).
 
Sorry to here your sad news. As a pet owner myself I've been through it. Only thing that really helps is good memories of your pet and time. I just wished our pets would live as long as us humans but unless you have a tortoise that isn't going to happen.
 
I suffered more or less the same 2 years ago - had one of my cats put to sleep on Christmas Eve :(

I cried a lot and was pretty cut up about it for a couple of weeks tbh. Thinking about him still makes me sad though. Best thing to do I found was make a collection of all the best photos you have of him and keep it somewhere handy so you can look at them from time to time.

Most importantly it will pass :)
 
I would much rather have my animals put down than endure misery and pain. In this case, you did the right thing, it's the last ounce of love you can provide them with before they pass on. I'm sure he had a long and happy life.. 16 years is very old for a cat I think!

You could replace Mario, and name him luigi maybe. As a tribute.

I've been through similar experiences. Had a Chocolate Labrador bitch put down in the past that was older than I and when you grow up from birth alongside a animal like that... it hits you even harder when they pass on. Similary that was due to cancer and she still had years to live. We had a paw print taken in this toy-concrete slab thing as remembrance and have her ashes along side all our other animals that we have had put down...Our family have never let a cat or a dog we've owned die due to a illness... the day 'Masie' our choc lab was put down is cemented in my mind because that day was Comic Relief and I remember having to do a whole primary school wide comic-relief dance to raise money and standing there try to dance to garath gates 'Spirit in the Sky' really really really did not help. I couldn't bare it was in peices..

But caring for 3 dogs, 2 kittens, 3 adult cats, 2 guiniepigs, 1 rabbit and a tortoise... and also family-owning 2 horses and 2 shetland ponies provides far too many oppertunities for such pet deaths.
 
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I cried when my dog died, it really is amazing how attached you can get to pets.

I felt really down after it, and now that i have 2 more dogs, i find myself ensuring i don't make the same mistakes i did the first time. Such as spending too little time with them etc.

Just think happy times mate, and consider getting a new pet, it really does help. :)
 
sounds like me and my cat, he died of a tumor, which was making him dribble, I thought he was just happy, he was but dying at the same time, soon he stopped eating... you'll see... the end of the video is him in the vets before he was put down.

was sad, I won't watch the video I post as like you said, he sat next to me when I was on the computer, he slept on my bed, he woke me up in the morning, I would give him a slice of ham (he loved that), spent lots of time with him :)

Amazing how a pet can make the bad times just vanish

 
Try to remember the good times and it will pass.

Ive been in a similar situation recently - my cat who was 18-19 years old had been like a sister to me, my parents got her when I was very young and she ended up dieing of a respiratory problem (chylothorax).

As soon as we got to the vet in the last visit she had a cardiac arrest right on the table. It was horrible to see this, I still have images pop into my head of what she did.

This was a couple months ago and sometimes I think of her at the end of the day and well up but I always look back to the great times we had together and remember that all things come to an end.

The worst thing is that people dont understand, they dismiss pets as mere 'animals' and therefore cannot understand that the pain of losing them is just as bad as losing a human member of the family. So if you have friends/family that are able to understand this then talking about it does help.
 
The pain never goes away fully. That's part of the problem of cat's far shorter life expectancy. For me it was also the worst day in my life but I found what helped was time and small things like remembering the good times, instead of thinking about when he was ill. Perhaps make a memorial for him.
I never got another pet after that so can't comment on that.
 
Sorry to hear about your loss, he looks like a lovely cat. I know what it's like to have a cat who is always around for you, it's sad when that's gone.

RIP Mario :(
 
RIP Mario.

As others said, get another cat (kitten). I've had 3 cats die on my so far in my life.
Lila Khat and Genghis Khat the 1st, brother and sister Siamese that went out with feline leukaemia when I was 9 years old.

Wusspussmagicat (don't ask where the name comes from :/ ), who was hit by a car when I was 15.

In both cases I was seriously bummed out but now that I'm older the bond I have with my 2 cats now is much stronger as I just have a greater understanding of pets or life or whatever, I dunno. (Lila and Genghis Khat the 2nd, Siamese brother and sister again :D ) I would be quite distraught if they left me :(

No one will ever replace Mario but I guarantee raising a new cat from kittenhood will help a massive amount.
 
Feel really bad for you mate, when our cat of 17 years was put down I was pretty distraught, he was a year younger than me so I'd literally grown up with him :(
 
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