Post by karen on Apr 27, 2011 9:11:51 GMT -5
Xeopse good on you for taking in this grand old lady. 
My heart is really turned to the oldsters; oldster cats and oldster ferrets.
This was one of my oldster cats; actually she was my late husband's cat. There at the end he would spend every day in his recliner, Bear tucked in right there beside him. She lived another 8 years after he passed. I have often wondered if she has caught up with him or if he was there to greet her when she passed.
Mz Bear:
Our presently oldest cat is my beloved Elsa. She was a gift from my late husband and Elsa is 14 years old, she will be 15 this fall. This pix was following a visit to the vet for a dental cleaning. She looked **very** boozy and was NOT a happy camper.
A happier Elsa:
And of course my beloved old gal Shelby:
When Shelby passed, it was so very very hard for me. April 12th was 2 years since she left and it hurts just as much today as it did when she passed.
You get these guys when they are young, the antics of a kitten or a kit ferret, you love them as they grow into adulthood, personalities develop, the mischief never leaving them, you love them steadily as time begins to whisper the hour, and then you are making allowances for more frequent accidents, feeding them a special diet due to various ailments; in Elsa's case she has a grand total of ONE TOOTH so she gets canned food twice a day. So far she has not seemed to develop any arthritis and no heart murmur as was Shelby's undoing.
Where would any of us be without or fur kids??
My heart is really turned to the oldsters; oldster cats and oldster ferrets. This was one of my oldster cats; actually she was my late husband's cat. There at the end he would spend every day in his recliner, Bear tucked in right there beside him. She lived another 8 years after he passed. I have often wondered if she has caught up with him or if he was there to greet her when she passed.
Mz Bear:
Our presently oldest cat is my beloved Elsa. She was a gift from my late husband and Elsa is 14 years old, she will be 15 this fall. This pix was following a visit to the vet for a dental cleaning. She looked **very** boozy and was NOT a happy camper.
A happier Elsa:
And of course my beloved old gal Shelby:
When Shelby passed, it was so very very hard for me. April 12th was 2 years since she left and it hurts just as much today as it did when she passed.
You get these guys when they are young, the antics of a kitten or a kit ferret, you love them as they grow into adulthood, personalities develop, the mischief never leaving them, you love them steadily as time begins to whisper the hour, and then you are making allowances for more frequent accidents, feeding them a special diet due to various ailments; in Elsa's case she has a grand total of ONE TOOTH so she gets canned food twice a day. So far she has not seemed to develop any arthritis and no heart murmur as was Shelby's undoing.
Where would any of us be without or fur kids??
