Just Lost My Cat..., My 19 year old cat was hit by a car Options

[cfholden]

Our much cherished 19 year old Chris Craft the cat didn't come home last Saturday night, or Sunday morning. My husband went looking for him and found him, apparently having been hit by a car, and left in a dumpster. My husband came home screaming, and in shock. He won't describe to me exactly what he saw. But says it was bad. We both can't stop the crying and I've never felt such pain. I've watched both my parents die before my eyes, but this feels worse. I had time to prepare for my parents (years actually) .and although I cried for them, this pain is different. More intense, and the emptiness in our home without our cat is unbelievable. I don't want to go home. I feel such pain for my husband who had to find him. I keep reliving the moment he came home screaming and crying, and then I break into tears.
I will miss my little guy so much. Sunday was the worst day of my life.

[toonie]

Dear ChrisCraft's parents, My deepest sympathies for the loss of your wonderful cat, do you realize that if you had him for 19 years it must have been because he loved his life so much that he kept himself in amazingly great health so we can all agree that he must have had a fantastic life, full of adventures, discoveries on top of all your love and care. When I read your tragic account of your Chris Craft's death, it reminded me of our own Sophie, just a barn cat, not loved and cared for like your Chris Craft but I thought it important to tell you her story. One beautiful Sunday morning this August my husband and I were talking about the event we had attended the night before when my son came downstairs to tell me that as he and his friends were pulling out of our yard that evening they hit Sophie and they saw her crawl away to the rose bushes after having been hit.
My first reaction was to find Sophie in case she was agonizing still, still my quick tongue told my son why the hell didn't you leave me a message, you don't let animals suffer like this....etc..etc...and I ran to the rose bush area, I found beautiful Sophie the barn cat, lying peacefully, no other expression that her sweet face looking as if it was asleep, no apparent injury on her body. She was a beautiful calico with a black background and plenty of multicolored spots on top, little white paws. Even if she eventually grew too wild to be petted, she had had her first vaccines in 1998 so she I knew she was 9 years old, rather ripe old age for a wild barn cat. It looked like her old age or just the hit finished her really quickly, I was grateful for this.
My feeling is that your Chris Craft left this way too, if other cars hit him after he most likely did not feel the horrors that were left on his little body. I know this sounds so hard, describing things like this. But know that there is a whole lot of likely hood that you will be doing the suffering and that Chris Craft was spared of all the pain you are going through. Please come back here to talk or cry like we all do, the pain is very fresh for you but you will get better, for sure, only for now, the rain will have to fall.
Know that we are all with you as you go through this most difficult time too. I as well as many others here share with you the fact that this is a most intense time, when my father died he had been ill for a long time, for my cats, I was traumatized by their death and being here for over a year I can say that I am much better, I am in a sort of way healed, but I still like to come here, it's my way of staying in touch with the great mystic cat and dog and ferret and else world of our friends who are right next to us as we sit at this computer and at other times. Take care, we care.