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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsAnd the kitties claim another victim.
Another one bites the dust:
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https://imgur.com/r/Eyebleach/EMFuru5
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In case you don't get the audio, he's explaining to a woman (camera person?) how he found/rescued the kitten. The woman asks him twice, pointedly, "What's your cat's name"?.
He's a goner, just hasn't quite realized it yet.
Nay
(12,051 posts)2naSalit
(86,794 posts)COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)Kitten: "I just picked my hooman".
csziggy
(34,137 posts)He'd had a cat that was his settlement from his divorce. That cat was over eighteen years old and ailing. I'd been trying to talk him into putting the poor thing to sleep and my husband just wasn't ready.
Meanwhile, one of my clients had found a kitten in the backwoods. She hoped her mother would take it, but I told her that if her mother didn't want him to bring him back to me and we'd adopt him. The next day, the vet was out doing routine treatment on the horses. The client brought the kitten back and I had my husband hold him. Before the vet left, my husband said, "Shouldn't we get shots for our new cat?" so he got his first vaccinations that day. My husband holding that cat was very much like the man in the video - totally smitten but not quite ready to admit it.
That night, my husband said he thought it was time to put his old cat to sleep and I planned to call the vet in the morning. The next morning the old cat had passed. I think he knew that his owner had another cat to take care of him. The kitten lived with us until he was nearly eighteen when we finally had to have him put to sleep. So in our nearly 43 years of marriage, my husband has had two cats that were his only. I've had a dozen or so, some of which were mine, most were shared between us.
We've been catless since last fall when my old cat crawled off under a tree and died at seventeen and a half. Between traveling and construction we have not been able to adopt. Friday I put in an application with the local Humane Society and got a call saying I was approved. We have maybe another month of construction, then we will pick out two cats that get along and introduce them to our house.
This has been the longest period in fifty years I have been without a cat. It hurts.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,480 posts)To be catless. As soon as I got my subsidized apartment and got more emotionally stabilized, I got my baby Othelllo.
I love him so much it's painful but in a good way.
I have had serious squee moments with Othello.
Hope you and your partner
Have many,many years of joy and sweetness with your new furbabies. They melt your heart to goo and they will do it everyday.
sl8
(13,889 posts)I'm sorry that you're currently catless & hope the next month passes quickly for you.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)csziggy
(34,137 posts)Are Spicy Noodle and Pot Pie. They are brown tabby sisters and cute as they can be. They have been there a while because the Humane Society wants them adopted together. If they are still there when we are able to adopt, they could come home with us! I might change their names, though.
rurallib
(62,448 posts)that is some magic those kitties have
Dem2theMax
(9,654 posts)Kitten looks up at him, meows, continues to look adoringly at his new Daddy. Goner!
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3catwoman3
(24,051 posts)It would have worked on me, although I would probably have already succumbed.