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Just lost my cat

BlackBeltKat32
BlackBeltKat32
I just put my Hoagie to sleep tonight. He had lymphoma. My heart is breaking. Compounding this is the fact that Mother's Day is this weekend and it will be the first without my Mom. How can a heart hurt so much and still keep beating?
ALC67
ALC67
Oh my! I'm so sorry about your cat (and Mom). I lost my Charlemagne to lymphoma too, back in '99. He was only 10 but there just wasn't anything to be done. I know how much that hurts. In your head you know it' buts the right thing to do but in your heart it hurts so much. I was lucky in that I had two other cats who needed my care and were missing 'His Majesty' too.
If you don't have another cat, try and get one soon. Having a new 'baby' helps a lot. You never forget any of them but you have to go on.
Go to Catster.Com or CatAge.com and click on their pet loss sections. That will help. It will get better, there will be other cats out there for you. Just take it one day at a time.
deleted_user
deleted_user
I'm sorry for your loss, pets are family to. To answer your "ageold" question....I have no idea. No one seems to. The pain of loss is so deep, yet it just seems to allow us to live any way. I'm sorry you are hurting so much. Huggs, Rainbow
deleted_user
deleted_user
I am so sorry for your loss. My cat, Mittens died 3yrs. ago. I still miss her. I made a tribute to her by framing her picture with a pretty memorial poem beside it. When I look at it I still cry.