Well it's been a while since i wrote on this blog! I have to say that it did everything i needed it to do, and more. I used this particular 'Jelly cat Therapy' to help me get over the loss of Jonesy cat in 2011 and because i couldn't find anywhere to help me understand why i was so devastated at his death. Writing it all out helped me immensely and enabled me to let out all my anger, sadness and wonderfully happy memories!!
In among my musings i sometimes pondered the idea of getting another cat. We lost Peanut, Jonesy's mum, in the early months of 2012 and this left us with one 17 year old mad totally deaf female called Ripley. I had heard that animals feel loss but was not sure i believed it until i heard Ripley's yowls. She was alone and she knew it. Okay we were around,, but the other two were not. For hours she would pace the house. She was restless all the time, and the agonised noises she made broke our hearts. No amount of petting and cuddling seemed to provide comfort. We couldn't call to her as she was deaf and so our days were spent running to get her when she howled. It took 3 weeks, that was all.
To my mind, Ripley was lonely. I talked it over with hubby....very tentatively. Should we get another cat? We had always said we wouldn't after the three died, after all they did tie us down, in spite of the fact we loved them to bits. Back and forth the conversation went for 2 days. It was a big decision. What if we got another cat and they didn't get on, after all this was Ripley's territory? She was old and deaf. Would another cat understand?
2 days and hubby knew he was fighting a losing battle. I didn't push it but all of a sudden i caught him looking on the internet site Gum Tree at cats!! Good grief!! We thought long and hard and felt that it would be better to get a young cat rather than a kitten...in fact probably 2, as they would be company for each other when Ripley died. We had to be realistic! I desperately wanted another ginger tom. Not to replace Jonesy, but just because i adore them. Actually the 2 we fell in love with first were cream and tortoiseshell, and off we went to view. They were beautiful but petrified of people. The lady assured us they would come to us, but you could just tell they were too scared. they skittered about and hid, and after 3/4 hour we gently said it just wasn't right for us to take them home. It would not have worked. As we sat in the cat i looked at my hubby and said i wanted to check out a ginger kitten i had seen on Gum Tree.......one phone call to our son to get the contact number, one phone call to the owner, one viewing just down the road from the cats, and we had a ginger tom kitten!!!! How did that happen, ha ha?? Well....you know??
The next day i decided we needed another kitten to keep him company....hubby saw an advert in a shop and off we went. One lovely ginger tom ended up back at home with us! Two ginger tom kittens from different litters and one very old deaf cat. How on earth was that going to work..............
To my mind, Ripley was lonely. I talked it over with hubby....very tentatively. Should we get another cat? We had always said we wouldn't after the three died, after all they did tie us down, in spite of the fact we loved them to bits. Back and forth the conversation went for 2 days. It was a big decision. What if we got another cat and they didn't get on, after all this was Ripley's territory? She was old and deaf. Would another cat understand?
2 days and hubby knew he was fighting a losing battle. I didn't push it but all of a sudden i caught him looking on the internet site Gum Tree at cats!! Good grief!! We thought long and hard and felt that it would be better to get a young cat rather than a kitten...in fact probably 2, as they would be company for each other when Ripley died. We had to be realistic! I desperately wanted another ginger tom. Not to replace Jonesy, but just because i adore them. Actually the 2 we fell in love with first were cream and tortoiseshell, and off we went to view. They were beautiful but petrified of people. The lady assured us they would come to us, but you could just tell they were too scared. they skittered about and hid, and after 3/4 hour we gently said it just wasn't right for us to take them home. It would not have worked. As we sat in the cat i looked at my hubby and said i wanted to check out a ginger kitten i had seen on Gum Tree.......one phone call to our son to get the contact number, one phone call to the owner, one viewing just down the road from the cats, and we had a ginger tom kitten!!!! How did that happen, ha ha?? Well....you know??
The next day i decided we needed another kitten to keep him company....hubby saw an advert in a shop and off we went. One lovely ginger tom ended up back at home with us! Two ginger tom kittens from different litters and one very old deaf cat. How on earth was that going to work..............
I'm ALL welled up....Tissues..! :).
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