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[Calamity1971]

Yes, I still have one of BD’s old collars in a jar in the garage - and I have found plenty more over the years in different spots - he hated them and was quite adept at getting rid!

I’m also in two minds now about keeping cutting back - BD chose his own time and place to go and die and we never found where. I’ve always wondered if it was under the shed, where he first lived for some months when he first adopted my garden but before he came in to the house and adopted me but he also loved this bush and would hide there for hours waiting to pounce-out on prey from it, so he could be there. However, I’ve probably cut it back enough - ts good for all the wildlife in the garden but it had got right out of control and was beginning die back in the middle, so I’ve removed about half of it, right back to healthy growth that will come back.

If it were me I'd have to leave it now. I don't think I could handle finding him. I hope it bounces back after your trim.

 

[Epona]

Yes, I still have one of BD’s old collars in a jar in the garage - and I have found plenty more over the years in different spots - he hated them and was quite adept at getting rid!

I’m also in two minds now about keeping cutting back - BD chose his own time and place to go and die and we never found where. I’ve always wondered if it was under the shed, where he first lived for some months when he first adopted my garden but before he came in to the house and adopted me but he also loved this bush and would hide there for hours waiting to pounce-out on prey from it, so he could be there. However, I’ve probably cut it back enough - ts good for all the wildlife in the garden but it had got right out of control and was beginning die back in the middle, so I’ve removed about half of it, right back to healthy growth that will come back.

I think if he went back to the soil in either of those places that would be a good way to end up for him and leaving him undisturbed there sounds good, you don't want to be coming across that (it could be that there is nothing left there for you to find, but it is not something you want to test as it could be really upsetting).

One of my difficulties was not having anywhere to bury Radar and having to get him cremated, which I don't favour and I think made it more upsetting. I've buried previous pets in my parents' garden but they are council tenants and getting on for 80 now, plus I have a difficult relationship with them anyway, so I opted to have Radar cremated and I found it really difficult as it is not something I would ever choose if I had any other more private burial option and it feels like a halfway house towards getting him properly buried somewhere close to me, an option I don't have right now. I find it difficult to look at his casket because he should be in the ground.

I do think the proper cycle of things is to go back into the earth and provide new growth - however new age and wanky that sounds (and I grew up in the country, I know full well to put paving slabs down on top of a pet's burial for 6-12 months to prevent scavenging, THEN remove them and plant a memorial)

If I ever get a place with a garden one of the first things I am going to do is dig a grave for Radar's ashes (they are in a cannister inside his casket so I can undo a few screws in the base in order to remove and bury the ashes) and plant something on top for him. (I hope I might start to feel some peace then). Or if I die before then I want any deceased pets ashes buried with me.

(Also heads-up, if I have a garden that I own outright when I die I want to be buried there myself - it is completely legal as long as the burial is on private land and the burial location is logged with the registrar, you don't need planning permission, and fuck property prices, just hire a JCB and stick me right in there, bury all of my pets' ashes with me, that is what I want).

 

[pogofish]

I think if he went back to the soil in either of those places that would be a good way to end up for him and leaving him undisturbed there sounds good, you don't want to be coming across that (it could be that there is nothing left there for you to find, but it is not something you want to test as it could be really upsetting).

Yes, this is about how I've looked at it as well - esp as he was never really a domestic cat (he was the one with possible signs of being a Kellas cat) so the issue of having him PTS was much more difficult. He chose to come in and live with me and he took his leave of me the same way, at a great age after a superb life here.

That said, of all my former cats, he is the one I would most like to have a spot to rest and be remembered. Simply because of his personality/how he was.

The other thing is that the shed has now been patched-up so many times over the years that I'm going to have to face-up to replacing it sometime sooner rather than later. So if there are any remains underneath (its raised on concrete blocks), I will be up to dealing with them. He was very old/tired/done (but not suffering) when he went - it was unquestionably his time.

 

[Epona]

Yes, this is about how I've looked at it as well - esp as he was never really a domestic cat (he was the one with possible signs of being a Kellas cat) so the issue of having him PTS was much more difficult. He chose to come in and live with me and he took his leave of me the same way, at a great age after a superb life here.

That said, of all my former cats, he is the one I would most like to have a spot to rest and be remembered. Simply because of his personality/how he was.

The other thing is that the shed has now been patched-up so many times over the years that I'm going to have to face-up to replacing it sometime sooner rather than later. So if there are any remains underneath (its raised on concrete blocks), I will be up to dealing with them. He was very old/tired/done (but not suffering) when he went - it was unquestionably his time.

If this was some time ago now, there is a good chance you won't find anything in either place. If the shed needs to come up and you find something, try not to be too upset - he's been there for a while now and if there are any remains you can wrap them up and bury them somewhere else in the garden and think of him while you do it - that isn't the worst end for a loved cat

 

[pogofish]

Yes, it was a long time ago I've had another two cats live long and happy lives here since. t was an ex who insisted on getting them - I'd actually said "no more" to cats - but she's long gone and well, the cats do grow on you. The wee tabby is still going strong, whilst the black and white who died two years ago is buried under the lawn, in what would have been the shade of her favourite tree but the tree keeled-over shortly after I put her there. So I restored the grass and today, I noticed her spot was covered by a thick growth of clover and some buttercups - and where he would go is somewhere beside that cleared bush, so he would be in a favourite spot.

There are two older cat burials in the garden - one is marked by a small tree right at the top of the garden where she used to patrol the fence - I cut it back to a managable size last autumn and it has recovered nicely. Another went under a big yellow shrub which is still thriving by the greenhouse, although I may cut it back a bit later this year.

My very first cat went feral but visited occasionally until he was killed on the road some years later, further up - but one of the other people he visited buried him in their garden and the only cat I lost completely, I didn't have for very long - she took to crossing the road and hunting along the river bank, where something, maybe a fox or a dog took her.

 

[Epona]

This is probably terrible but I am wondering when my parents are gone and I am asked to clear out their (council) house whether I should try to exhume the remains of my birds who are buried there, I hate the thought of them being dug up by someone just rearranging the garden

EDIT: (I know that is silly, just a passing thought there)

 

[pogofish]

This is probably terrible but I am wondering when my parents are gone and I am asked to clear out their (council) house whether I should try to exhume the remains of my birds who are buried there, I hate the thought of them being dug up by someone just rearranging the garden

EDIT: (I know that is silly, just a passing thought there)

Its not silly - That's why you bury them deep if you can, well below the depth anyone would likely dig to remodel a garden.

 

[pogofish]

Here are the two of them basking by that bush at the end of a sunny day back in 2016 - It is the dense foliage on the left and it had grown to completely engulf the plants at the middle and right until I started to cut it back a couple of weeks ago - its taken four brown bins, stuffed tight to get it back under control!

 

[Epona]

Its not silly - That's why you bury them deep if you can, well below the depth anyone would likely dig to remodel a garden.

I think the sillyness is in me thinking in my younger years that at some point I would be able to give them the money to buy the place and then they would leave it to me and then it wouldn't matter that my pets are buried there, but as it turns out I basically suck at life and can't look after myself, let alone any other consideration

 

[pogofish]

but as it turns out I basically suck at life and can't look after myself, let alone any other consideration

We all have those moments! - The only reason I have this house is relative luck. Because I gave my gran all the money I had at the time so she could keep the place and live-out her last years there before it came to me. If I'd actually had to save-up to buy the place, I would have been fucked - and unable to afford anything like it thanks to all the life/financial screw-ups I've made over the years! Sometimes the thoughts about them drag me right down too.

 

[Numbers]

An early morning rumble for 2 of our furry ballet dancers.

 

[bimble]

someone gave me a bag of spinach the other day which was not the best gift i've ever received, was vaguely wondering what to do with it but that's sorted now, it is a cat cushion.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

someone gave me a bag of spinach the other day which was not the best gift i've ever received, was vaguely wondering what to do with it but that's sorted now, it is a cat cushion.

i think you may have found the only practical use for a bag of spinach...

 

[Chz]

To celebrate 4 years since he came to live with us, Bernard has dressed up.

 

[Numbers]

Touching up his lipstick

 

[Numbers]

He's not ours by the way. He's a stray who has adopted us, well.. not exactly a stray as he's been around for 10 years, we think he's Ti's brother and they've been pals for years so we call him Bestie.

He's been abandoned (maybe a year ago) so lives in our garden, we built him a waterproof thingy, brought him to the vet etc. + he eats in our kitchen. He's lovely.

 

[Numbers]

We have a vet appointment with him for next Friday (for jabs) so we're currently debating whether or not to get him snipped - we're thinking of doing so because he's slowly being introduced to the house (kitchen so far) but really want to try and have him in the house by winter, but he's not coming in with those big balls cos he'll piss everywhere.

Is it Ok or even wise to have a 10 year old snipped?

 

[Numbers]

Banjaxed with the heat.

 

[Epona]

We have a vet appointment with him for next Friday (for jabs) so we're currently debating whether or not to get him snipped - we're thinking of doing so because he's slowly being introduced to the house (kitchen so far) but really want to try and have him in the house by winter, but he's not coming in with those big balls cos he'll piss everywhere.

Is it Ok or even wise to have a 10 year old snipped?

Yes it is OK and the best thing you can do for him - even at a late stage in life he will be more protected against certain cancers and less likely to get in fights

 

[Numbers]

If I have to be hot I’m getting high on cat mint

 

[Numbers]

So as not to leave the other 2 out, Dennis Brown and Marvin. And that’s my lot for the day.

 

[Oriole]

Orange nose is proving very hard to capture. Borrowed a trap from a local rescue and that's not worked . Found out the Nightshift security was feeding her so I politely asked him to stop as it would be easier for me if she was hungry. Went down at 10pm last and the prick had put tikka chicken down honking of garlic! The prick keeps doing it and won't listen
Anyway here's orange nose just now ..
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That's a very boopable nose

 

[Epona]

Finally managed to get Sonic to piss in the special litter today!

He'd refused to all day in the bedroom (OH working nights and was trying to sleep, so he wasn't just shut in there by himself) but the 2 cats basically stood and wailed at one another from their different rooms and Sonic was again too disrupted to attempt to piss in plastic litter! Was essential to make sure that it was Sonic's and only Sonic's piss that I had.

Had a bright idea, I have a large dog crate which a friend gave us many years ago when Jakey needed to be kept from being active for a couple of days after major abdominal surgery - so I got that out, popped Jakey in it (he associates it with being fed and getting treats, unlike the carrier he is not bothered by being in there for a little while - we have also used it on occasion to feed one of them if they need medication in their food that the other can't have - they are so bonded that they will not eat if they are separated) and moved the tray with the special litter back into the sitting room and let Sonic in - he immediately went and said hello to Jakey then went straight to the special litter and did a great big piss in it - he must have been bursting poor lad. He felt ok enough to try it once he was back in a room with his best friend/nephew and able to see him

Had the vial at the vet surgery 30 minutes later.

I know for next time

 

[ddraig]

Kizzy says hai from her "hiding" place on windowsill

 

[May Kasahara]

someone gave me a bag of spinach the other day which was not the best gift i've ever received, was vaguely wondering what to do with it but that's sorted now, it is a cat cushion.

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"You don't want this shit. Give it to me, I'll take care of it for you."

 

[May Kasahara]

Took Donut to vet today about his eyes - good news is he's absolutely fine in every other respect, which means no sinister cause for membranes showing The vet said that in this circs it generally resolves itself within a couple of weeks, so fingers crossed.

 

[donkyboy]

Put out some catnip for Miko. His brother Draco came along but Miko was in no mood to share

 

[seeformiles]

I was cutting the hedge and found my cats collar. It's been years and I was still heartbroken.

I still keep Buttons’ collar along with the bit of fur they shaved before her final moments.

 

[fishfinger]

Put out some catnip for Miko. His brother Draco came along but Miko was in no mood to share

"Find your own dealer!"

 

[seeformiles]

To celebrate 4 years since he came to live with us, Bernard has dressed up.View attachment 273420

Mrs SFM bought some novelty ties for our two new xmas. Lil’ Bob was grumpy about it whereas Vic tried to put us both in hospital. We took that as a “No”