Your Pet Loss Stories
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Your Pet Loss Stories
'Buddy's Story'
The first time we saw Buddy he was walking across the grave of one of our beloved cats, Harley, who had just passed away while we were on vacation. This …
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'My Barking Cat'
We just lost an incredible part of our small family yesterday... our 13 year old black cat "Cat-Cat". We took him to the vet Friday because of some weight …
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'My Cat Chicken'
Today 3/31/2013 I had a very tragic loss, I had to make a very unselfish decision to put my big boy to sleep. I was with him as he took his final breath …
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'Bandit'
What a wonderful, spirited, opinionated and fiercely loyal companion.
He was my first cat. I was highly allergic as a child, but at the time my fiancée …
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'Ms.Isabella, 'Bella-Bells'
A family of four which included my daughter, myself, my oldest cat Asia, and my youngest cat China had became a family of 5 when we met Isabella. My daughter …
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'Candy Please Come Back To Me'
My beloved cat Candy died of renal failure on 16-1-2013, and I am completely devastated, feel like it's the end of the world for me.
She was not even …
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'Choco my Lindo'
Dear Choco
It was a little over three years ago that I saw your beautiful face on Craigslist and I said to myself "This cat is for me, this is my cat." …
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'My Little Friend'
I rescued picked this kitten up from the streets a week ago. I did not expect to lose her exactly a week after.
I fell in love with her nice white fur …
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'Cherish What You Have Today, For It Could Be Gone Tomorrow'
My husband works at a metal scrap yard and was loading the car crusher when he heard a loud meow scream, so he got out and discovered a itty bitty blue/grey …
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'My Chinniminni'
I was having a normal day that day, the complete usual. As I was about to get tutored, someone rang my doorbell. I went to the door to answer the doorbell …
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'Sam'
I first met Sam when he was about 2 months old. The person that brought him to me (who found my other cat dead after being knocked down by a car) and …
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'Soft as a Kitten'
I'm not well educated and my spelling isn't that great but here I sit just a day after losing my sweet kitten, her name was Baby Girl.
This little …
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'Cosmo'
My cat would have been 12 this October. He passed away suddenly, and unexpectedly when a mountain lion took him off the deck at my parents house. This …
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'Ally's Life With Me'
One day before I started 5th grade my parents decided to get me a cat and we got Ally when a couple couldn't keep her. So we took her in and called her …
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'Bronze'
I became a foster for the local shelter in DC this summer but it wasn't until October that I picked up my first litter of kittens.
In the litter there …
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'My Leo'
I had Leo my cat for 10 years and last week we had to euthanize him because of some complications of his heart disease. He started off with a heart murmur …
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'Baby, the Indoor Only Cat, Doesn't Survive'
My name is Linda and I had my cat, Baby, for 19 years. Last Friday, Sept. 9, I was out of town and received a frantic call from my husband letting me know …
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'Iran...the Mechanic's Cat'
Iran can to me one morning as I was working on a truck in the shop. He came out from under a tyre and meowing a lot. He must have been hungry because he …
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'One of My Best Loved Pets Was Cleo'
Miss Cleo, our female Tuxedo cat just died and I still cry as it came so suddenly. I must tell you about Cleo and keep in mind I DO NOT know what actually …
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'Cupcake'
She was my best friend. The thing that when I was down I could go to and she would make me smile. She took the place of my other cat Cookie when she died …
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'To My Chloe'
I was just finished vacuuming when I went upstairs to my bedroom. All I could do was scream "oh my god!!!". There was my cat, Chloe, laying dead on the …
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'Smitten is Called Home'
This morning I was awoken by my son knocking on my door. One look at his sad face and I knew something was wrong. "Mom, your kitty is gone, my dogs killed …
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'Callie - I Love You More Than You Will Ever Know'
My sweet baby girl came to me in 1998 when I was 17 and working in the grooming department of a local pet store. A co-worker had found her around her home. …
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'Basil'
I met Basil 6 and 1/2 years ago. I was a shelter attendant for the local humane society, Basil then Meatball was being dropped off. Working at the humane …
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'Baxter'
It has only been about 6 weeks since I lost Baxter but from the pain I feel it seems like I just lost him yesterday. Baxter was only 9 so that made it …
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'Coyote The Trickster'
Coyote was born eleven months ago. He was the last kitten in my cat Moo's litter. He was born eight hours after everyone else, and I was really worried …
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'FiFi'
Fifi had been with us for 14 years... I still remember when my mom first brought her home. She was so small and cute... black and white... with her cute …
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'My Ameigo'
He was born on July 22 2004 he and his brothers and sisters. I was there during their births he was the only lil black cat in that litter the rest were …
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'My Buddy Bagheera'
In 1993 I had just finished university in Nova Scotia, Canada (I'm originally from Newfoundland, where I am living again now) when I came across an SPCA …
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'Belle'
I got Belle when she was just 3 months old. When my family and I brought her home I was so happy she was the first pet I ever had! She had beautiful fur …
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'Remembering Madeliene'
I remember the first time that I saw her. It was a week before Thanksgiving U.S.A. and I was washing the downstairs floor. I opened the window to dry …
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'A Boy Cat Named Betty'
I never thought I would be one of "those people". You know the ones, those so obsessed with their pets they just aren't normal anymore; those who construct …
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'Bootsy'
My cat Bootsy died today I had no idea until I got back from school I had a dog that died too Chaz and... they'll see each other I keep on trying to think …
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'Cupcake & Crunchie'
My Wife adopted 2 kittens 12 years ago. A girl and a boy we named Cupcake and Crunchie. They were like our children.
My Wife unexpectedly died on Nov …
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'My Best Buddy... Gone 3/6/09'
I miss my Chubby so much. I watched my Chubbs/Chubby be born 2/99. He was the first of 3 to be born. He also was so chubby so that's how he came about …
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'My Cat Chewie was Killed by my Neighbor's Visiting "Grand" Dog'
My next door neighbors have 2 dogs, labradors. Their successful engineer Daughter has adopted a boxer/pit bull mix. The Daughter and her fiance travel …
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'Kalle Cibic'
We found our beautiful Kalle when I was 3, 4 years old. He was our family´s baby prince for nearly 21 years. Kalle was sick the last 6 years of his life …
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'Goodbye Cody'
I found Cody at a parking lot, being given away. I wasn't looking for another cat 10 years ago, but there he was and I wanted him. I brought him home, …
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'There is never enough time...'
Abby's spiral downward began a month and a half before her death. At 12 she was beginning to slow down but still seemed to have so much life left. Then …
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'Boots Lives on......'
Two weeks on since my beloved cat, Boots, died, and we (myself and my Mum) still grieve.
We had our lovely friend, our cat, our companion, cremated. …
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'My Baby'
I will have to keep this brief. I am distraught. My cat, Boots, died a few days ago. I am lost without him. So too is my mother. We loved him so much. …
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'Axl'
I found Axl at a pet food store, part of a local organization aimed to find homes for abandoned animals. The moment I saw him I knew he was to be part …
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