• HelixDab2@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Pretty easy for it to happen if you typically have 5+ cats at a time. Our cats Baldr and Þórr died within a month of each other, due to congestive heart failure. Two others–Grendel and Hermóðr–are in the last stages of HCM. We almost lost Bryhildr to FIP, before the treatment was approved; I think we spent about $5k on black-market GS-441254 to help her beat it. Wōtan had some kind of intestinal cancer; we don’t know exactly what, because it would have required a biopsy to be certain, and none of them are curable. Potet got out through a window that didn’t get closed and disappeared into the woods. Arthur was just old.

    And all that’s in less than six years.

    Together my partner and I have an entire shelf full of the cremated remains of the cats that we’ve had together and separately.

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        2 months ago

        Well. He was small, round, and smelled like dirt all the time. He was an adorable little sphynx, mulishly stubborn, but so happy all the time. I’ve got a picture of him from when he was a kitten curled up in my motorcycle helmet. He’s the one that’s been the hardest, because there was never any real feeling of closure.

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      2 months ago

      That’s not even half of the paw prints on her arm… I get what youre saying but mass die-offs are something I would expect only every 15-20 years. Unless they’re outdoor-only cats, maybe I’m just callous but I can’t imagine feeling so connected to 25+ outdoor-only cats that I commit each of them to my skin for the rest of my days.