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housesub4you -> The house seems so empty today (3/11/2010 12:26:30 PM)
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I was never one to become to attached to pets, I had a dog growing up. He was put to sleep when I was about 6. Then it was years before I had another pet. Close to 20, then my cat was killed at a very old age by an asshole in town.
But when I moved into my new house 6 years ago, I got a cat, a simple gray and white cat, we named her Olive. Yesterday I had to put her down at the young age of 6. She had cancer and it spread throughout her body. There was really nothing that could save her.
So I did what I had to do and the vet put her down while she was still gassed from some tests being done to see how far the cancer spread.
Now today, as I look around my house, I never thought a simple pet could become such a part of our family. But that is what she was, though if you where to ask me that last year I would have said, NO she's just the cat. But now I realize what a huge role she had in our lives.
I will miss you Olive, I am happy you are no longer suffering and that I took you home to be buried in your favorite place in the backyard, the place where you would run to as soon as we let you out.
I thought of burying her just beyond our backyard, as a final reward. See she was trained to not leave our yard, and she really never did. Though she would lay down at the end of the driveway, next to the sidewalk and when she stretched she would have 1 front paw out of the yard on the sidewalk. while she looked up at me like she had won a secret battle
Thank you Olive, I will miss you, you crazy bike, car, and leaf chasing cat.
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