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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / June 2007Touching story about a cat
Touching story about a cat put to sleep. PDF file from: http://www.snaptheroom.com/People/CatStory.PDF (size: 1.5 MB) Mr. Free Notes http://www.snaptheroom.com/ http://www.kedaikopi.com/ This is an okay read. Requires a TW. It is a link to a PDF of a Reader's Digest story. Well done. Not spam. And is appropriate. Bridget > Touching story about a cat put to sleep. > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > http://www.snaptheroom.com/ > http://www.kedaikopi.com/ > This is an okay read. Requires a TW. It is a link to a PDF of a Reader's > Digest story. Well done. Not spam. And is appropriate. > > Bridget And it does indeed need a number of TW. Helen M >> This is an okay read. Requires a TW. It is a link to a PDF of a Reader's >> Digest story. Well done. Not spam. And is appropriate. >> >> Bridget > > And it does indeed need a number of TW. I dare not read it until I saw some follow up posts, so I haven't and won't. I have to be very careful about what I read, or watch on TV because I get awful nightmares about animals who are in terrible danger if I do. In my dream it is up to me to save them and I never can no matter how much I try to and rush around to vets etc. I wake up sobbing. I have learnt over the years that I have to avoid reading/watching these things unless I want to have a dream like I had once before. It went like this: I was at a local supermarket and while going back to my car I saw a plane falling from the sky, in flames towards my house. At first my car wouldn't start, but I managed to pull up outside home just in time to see the plane explode exactly where my dogs were. I didn't have the cats at the time. *Now*, I would get a nightmare involving KFC, Boyfie, or even my poultry if I am not careful. Tweed On Jun 23, 2:38 pm, "Christina Websell" <spamf...@tinawebsell.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote: > <leoparduswei...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > Tweed That's *exactly* what I do. Usually it's an animal that's dying and I can't get anyone to do what I want them to do. Or everyone else thinks it's dead, except I know it isn't, and no one will listen. I'm somewhat of a control freak. I think it has something to do with that. I avoid cruelty issues/links at all costs. I see enough of that IRL and it doesn't do me any good to read it, since I can't do anything about it. > On Jun 23, 2:38 pm, "Christina Websell" > <spamf...@tinawebsell.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] > except I know it > isn't, and no one will listen. It's called an anxiety dream. I get them occasionally for no apparent reason, but I know what can trigger them off now so I have to try and avoid detailed posts about suffering and euthanasia. > I'm somewhat of a control freak. I > think it has something > to do with that. I don't think so. I think it's due to "too" much imagination," too" much empathy. Tweed > "Sherry" <sriddles@aol.com> wrote in message >> I'm somewhat of a control freak. I think it has something >> to do with that. > I don't think so. I think it's due to "too" much imagination, > "too" much empathy. Well, I'm sure there are many complex reasons why people have nightmares, and they are probably different for different people. And if someone is a control freak, then their anxiety is all about things going out of control, and that's what their anxiety dreams will be about, or some of them, anyway. I am more like you, Tweed - overabundance of imagination. :) Joyce On Jun 23, 5:02 pm, jXwXeXrXmXoX...@sonic.net wrote: > > "Sherry" <sridd...@aol.com> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Joyce I'm really only a control freak when it comes to animals. I've pretty passive with DH & family. I get frustrated when I can't make people at the shelter do what I want them to do. I get annoyed when they don't take care of the animals the way I want them to. (even their own animals, for cripe's sake). I get angry with board members on a personal level if they vote against something I've brought up. I used to think I ought to work on that. Now I think I'm old and set in my ways and never going to change, so I don't add stress by trying to change. So it's easy to see why I dream there's a dying animal, and it could be saved if only the idiot people around me would do exactly what I tell them to do. :-) Sherry Sherry >> On Jun 23, 2:38 pm, "Christina Websell" >> <spamf...@tinawebsell.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 54 lines] > > Tweed I don't know what its due to, but this morning I had my first ever in my life waking up screaming nightmare. I do know that all the stress from getting Jake to the vet and treated and back home and trying to get him settled down most likely helped. What was really odd, was I heard myself scream and it woke me up, so it had to have been really loud. And it woke Charlie up too. But I calmed down right away, and told him "just a nightmare". But I did get up. Didn't want to risk a rerun. Jo > I dare not read it until I saw some follow up posts, so I haven't and won't. > I have to be very careful about what I read, or watch on TV because I get > awful nightmares about animals who are in terrible danger if I do. In my > dream it is up to me to save them and I never can no matter how much I try > to and rush around to vets etc. I wake up sobbing. I didn't dare read it, either, and I was sure it was a troll. Now that I know it's not, I figure, OK, so it's not some sick story posted by a sadistic jerk. Instead, it's probably a very bittersweet story that would leave me in tears. And like you, I just don't need that. I'll read sad stories that people post here about their own cats, because I'm interested in what happens to everyone's cats here, and they need the support. But a reposted story, written by someone I don't even know? It's just not necessary for me to get upset about that. I'm not mad at the OP for posting it here, I'm just not going to read it. I don't get nightmares (and I *know* about your nightmares, Tweed! Yikes!), but I often obsess about sad kitty stories while awake. Not all the time, but when I get depressed, that's where my mind often goes. I'll find myself sobbing while driving down the freeway, or washing the dishes, etc. I just don't want any more material in my brain to obsess over than I already have! Joyce On Jun 23, 4:47 pm, jXwXeXrXmXoX...@sonic.net wrote: > > I dare not read it until I saw some follow up posts, so I haven't and won't. > > I have to be very careful about what I read, or watch on TV because I get [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > know? It's just not necessary for me to get upset about that. I'm not > mad at the OP for posting it here, I'm just not going to read it. snipped > Joyce I"m with you, Joyce. I hate it when people post cruelty story links, or otherwise sad stories. Yet I don't mind reading a newsgroup friend's tale about their cat because at least I can support them. The other stories I can't do anything except get upset and sad. People here are very respectful about posting a warning in the header. I sure do appreciate that. Sherry > I can support them. The other stories I can't do anything except get > upset and sad. > People here are very respectful about posting a warning in the header. > I sure do > appreciate that.////// The basic premise of this particular story is about a teanage boy saying goodbye to his elderly cat from the vets point of view. Pretty much, the cat is elderly, the boy took him to the vet, the vet couldn't do anything and helped the boy let his friend go to Rainbow Bridge with dignity. It was about how the lad showed how much he was actually a "man" (if that made sense) because he had nothing but care and compassion for his dear friend. It was a very touching story, if very sad, and one pretty much all of us could relate to. Helen M >> I can support them. The other stories I can't do anything except get >> upset and sad. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > and compassion for his dear friend. It was a very touching story, if > very sad, and one pretty much all of us could relate to. I chose not to read it but you told me anyway. Cheers. Tweed |
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