Do You Have Pets?

[Chris M]

I say this with sense of sarcasm, a BB gun and small moving targets is a cheap alternative to a rifle range. 

[iFett]

So my dog got her stitches out today and the cone of shame came off.  Got an A+ from the vet so 4 more weeks of sustained walks and such...

Started nibbling on her incision a few hours ago so cone back on....She's not happy...and I'm not either.   

[Scockery]

My cat died last nite. Choked to death, I think. I heard a gag noise. He did get hairballs now and then, never had trouble passing them.  He seemed just finer hours earlier.

Had two older cats (16 and 15) die around this time last year, one I had the vet put down. I'm done with pets for awhile. I'm obviously not responsible enough to handle them and I can't take the loss. 

[Qui-Gon Jim]

Sorry to hear about your loss.  I lost a cat about a month ago during the night.  She seemed a little strange the night before, and I planned on taking her in the next day, and she passed during the night.

[Jesse James]

I'm sorry scockery, man that's tough.

He may have had an aneurism though too...  My cat some years ago collapsed and twitched making a gagging type sound and his eyes rolled back.  My brother tried clearing his throat as we thought he choked, and then my brother who was an EMT at the time did a type of CPR on him but he was gone.  We took him to the emergency pet hospital and they let us knwo he'd died of an aneurism and it was pretty much instantaneous.

Cats usually have a reflex to get hairballs up and don't choke on them, as I understand it.

Losing a pet sucks, and I really feel for you.  I was tearing up the other day about my cat I lost just recently.  I'm making a mold for a headstone for where I buried him and it was hard just to make the mold box without starting to lose it.