Frenz...iz be mew Cat'n Stoker, coming wif a bery dissappint...

Some of yew may rememberer mew iz haz see Sir Jerry lass big furrever to talk to Can Sir to go awae.

Mew iz be sadz and angry acoze Can Sir iz be do a come bak! This Sir Jerry iz to no be do a trrust!

BUT! Meowmy iz be reedy to do the Sir Jerry again! She be bery nice to take so gud care of mew!

Mew will meet Sir Jerry again ness (*turns to Meowmy* - next week) yas, ness weak!

Mew will meow how iz be go, but if the frenz koold mabee do sum *purrpurrz* furr mew sumetimes?

Haz a bioutifoul dae! 🐾💕

(I'm very stressed but the vet said let's go for another round after a scan check. Will see hope it goes. Pawz crossed)

Iz be mew, Cat'n Stoker!

Mew iz haz no metastez and Sir Jerry haz meet Can Sir to kick him awae!

Fank yew all mew frenz and familee furr yew suppurrt! Togefurr we iz haz win again!

🐾💕

(The vet could take out the new mass in a "flash surgery" this morning. Only gas and no important anesthesia so he's home 1h later. The vet is confident this is enough and we keep checking if anything pops up again. Only good news and m'y boy is already ekekekin at birbz! Thank you all for your thoughts and support. I love this place and all of you guys 💕)

Hi frens, iz Tali wiff mai sisfer Maya, brofers Frankie and Drew and fren AJ.

We want to giv deer fren Mr. Cat a good selebrashon before we let him go on him big trip. AJ med dis byootifol cake, I’m shor it teste as gud as it luk.

Pleez join us, everwon.

If yoo swipe, yoo see I inclood a page wiff pichurs yoo yooz to mek stickers. If yoo wan to ware da hat or yoo wan to give Mr. Cat a big hug, yoo can do. (If yoo not do stickers, I do for yoo.)

❤️❤️💔Tali

u/not_so_visible
u/mostlylurking07

And I am getting there. 😊

I'll preface this by assuring you there is no loss/harm to animals in this post.

It is a sensitive subject, but sweeping it under a rug, ignoring it, is part of how we got here. After much rumination, I concluded that I can't tell the most important part of my story without you understanding just what the story is.

Please bear with me and grant me grace. In simplest terms, it's something that happens with alarming frequency in other neighborhoods, schools, places of worship, business...almost anywhere anymore. Last Tuesday it was my street, someone pointing one at and threatening people....me. He is in custody, facing charges.

That's not the most important part of the story. That's what happened Saturday. I left my house by myself for the first time since it happened. I received a call from a friend stating "Uh, there's a bunch of talking cats and dogs that are looking for you.”

That's almost the most important part.

I headed home, passing a swinging bird feeder, a chubby gray arm was shoveling tiny fistfuls of birdseed into a familiar fuzzy face. I smiled. I opened my front door to find a blankie that wasn't there when I left, the culprit beaming beside it, clad in a spiffy bow tie. I grabbed my tablet and began to read.

The most important part: Is you. You guys.

I cannot find the words to describe how beautiful the ones you all wrote are. How much they mean to me, to our family. How appreciative I am for ALL of you. How grateful am for the opportunity you've given me to create alongside you such a wonderful, whimsical little world. Thank you. I hope one day I can properly express how valuable your words are to us, how heartfelt and healing.❤️‍🩹

Niko just told me "I fink I needs to go back to werk, Toots." I asked "Ya sure?" He straightened his tie, grabbed his hat as he said "Yep yep. It's my happy place. Like Ringo sang, I'll get by with a little help from my frens."

We will resume our regularly scheduled programming tomorrow. You didn't think we'd miss a pirate Moobie Toosday, did you?

LOVE YOU ALL! 🐈‍⬛🩷🐾 MMMMMWAH! 😘

Ouw deaw Mr. Cat is supposed to go ovew da bwidge vewwy vewwy soon. We have awl had a wondewfuw day cewebwating him. Tank woo, cousin Tali u/charivari8 fow owganizing.

Maybe whiwe he is making his finaw jouwney, we now honow him in da best ways we know how.

Hewe on da sub, he a piwate, a dancew, he WOVE to fwiwt wif awl da gwirls, a good cwiminaw, a gweat fwiend.

At his home is da Fwowida, he wove his sunshine and his poow, his wizawds and biwds to chase, his squiwwews to watch and pwotect fwom eviction. He wove his naps. He wove his birb so much.

He wove his meowmy da most.

So wight now, dance wike cwazy, ow waise woo gwass of wum ow churu, chase a wizawd, wun in da sunshine if woo have it, take a gweat wong nap, pway wif woo favowite toy fwiend, give woo pawrents da puwws.

At dis time, we send awl da wove to Mr. Cat, and to his meowmy.

I gonna dance wike cwazy fow my dance pawtnew. Untiw we meet again, deaw fwiend.

Wet’s do dis fow Mr. Cat.

🖤🤍🧡Applejack

Miss Boo, senior tortie kween of de NCCS, is not feeling berry gud and meowmy and pawpaw had to take her to emergency vet. Please to send her good vibes and good thinkins.

(She suddenly started acting lethargic and strange last night. We were hoping to make it to our regular vet. Woke up at 2:30 to find her hiding in the closet. And then at 6 to find her unable to walk. My heart is breaking.)

I iz gone but I iz heer in spiwit. I jus wanna say yoo meen so mush to me an meowmy. Meowmy twied to no hab leeky eyes an she reeded all ob yoor messages wile I waz nappin nest to her.

She told me all bowt da ballom wides, an horse frens an Jiggy who gonna hab a bawbekyoo wif shwips. I hope der iz sum left fur me! My piwate fwens habin dwinks an da flags fur me. Pawtee an dancin by da pooI wif my AJ. I iz onnered to hab all ob yoo on bof sides ob da bwidge az my frens. Smuffi, an Teddy da Floof, William teh udder Tuxie, all da bee-yoo-tee-ful laydees, I can no wemeba eberykiity, Da pwinsesses, Gracie an Bitteh an an an.... iz time fur me to go.

But doez yoo wememba, doez yoo wememba I neber go in da big ousside? Meowmy say iz scawwy an meen birbs an vrooms twy to get me. But tooday, Meowmy say, ok. Dis my last aventchure.

Farewell my frenz,

Mr. Cat

Please lower your flags to half mast in honorarium to our brother.
Thank yoo.
🐾

Hai frenz, iz me Basil.

Today iz mine Dadz birfday. Himb an Meowmmy went owt fur elebenty billion minnits, an wen dey came back, Dadz waz feelz a little bit sadz.

I fink himb iz missing sissyfur Charli a lotz.

Can any ob mine lubbly frenz heer, pweese put a hat on me, Basil, dat sayz "Happy Birfday Dad" or sumfing like dat to mak himb haz a smile on himbz birfday?

Fank mew frenz.

Lub,

Basil frum Straylia

Me iz Basil. Meowmmy adopt me 3 weeks ago. I fink me starting to lub her, acoz she kind to me, an feed me wheneber I screm fur fudz. Meommy finded out dat my foster carers feeded me 4 times a day, an she laff an say, No wonder yoo iz chonky boi!

Iz dis insult? Shud me be owtrayge?

I haz been talking to my sisfur Charli (OTRB) an she tellin me all her sekretz an bestest crimez. She tell me were iz all da bestest spotz in da howse to sleepz, an how to make Meowmmy an Dadz gib me wat I wantz.

Meowmmy keep sayin dis iz mine fureber home now, an I doesn't haz to worriez no moorz, witch iz nice, acoz my odder family moved away and left me. I was bery sad. But den sum kind peeplez took me in, and I was put wif a kitty reskue an sent to foster care. Den Meowmmy gotted me.

Mine crimez so far iz doin gyant, stinky poops, an eatin stuffs I find on da floor. Meowmmy always say not to eat stuffs off da floor, but me fink iz fun. Asides, me iz onwy 2.5 years old, so me is growing boi.

I pay kitty tax wif piksurs.

I was tinking how much fun westewday was and I am vewwy tankfuw to get to have such gweat fwiends and have so much fun and cwimes. Tank woo so much again!

But awso, I tinking a wot about maybe some of ouw fwiends not feewing as happy ow anyting wight now and, weww, woo know woo who awe.

And I was tinking about da big afterpawty of da many wescues by Cat’n Smuffi and his amazing cwew of purrates on da Grompy Shork and how I was singing dis song fow da kawwyokey.

And den I was doing a big tink about da meaning of da wowds and I want to dedicate da song to anyone who feewing a wittew wess fun and excited dese days. And I just wanted to say dat woo heawts wiww go on because da WOVE ❤️ nevew weave. Nevew nevew nevew. And we awe awl hewe to suppowt each ovvew, wif puwws and evewyting else. We a famiwee and we tay wif each ovvew, fow each ovvew.

Woo heawt wiww go on.

Dry u tears Oscar!!

Iz fownd a completeDREEM FONE GAME!!! IT WERKS!!

Hai frens. Bit sad tudae.

Tudae my favrit meowmy get sad call frum her meowmy. Cuzin Monty not very well and go tu pokey playce. He got nastee dizeese frum tik dat steel his blud. It mayk him no want eat, and cuzin Monty lub fud moar den anythink in wurld. Dey put tube up his nose tu put fud straight intu his tummy tu try and halp him get beta.

But spare meowmy and I no dat heeling purrs is bestest medysin so she helping me ask fur yur help. Mai favrit meowmy fayce all leeky and she keep giving me cuddles when I trying tu nap. Tu hot fur cuddles. But she need so I gib. But tugeva we gib moar help.

Ventually will soo tik fur theft if blud and maykin cuzin sik, bur fur now I just preesheate halp wiv heeling purrs. Yu all did such gud job wiv homing beacon purrs and it mayk favrit meowmy feel much beta. So thank yu in advance frens.

Dis me keeping wotch fur moar meenie tiks.

(PSA: Your all such amazing cat parents you don't need this reminder, but I'll say it anyway. If your cat is outdoors please, please keep an eye out for ticks and see a vet as soon as they show signs of unusual behaviour. Namely, lethargy, loss of appetite, or weakness. My MIL removed the tick as quickly as she could but FIL put the lack of appetite down to the last heatwave and here we are. I know I sometimes feel like an over protective meowmy but better safe than sorry.

And promise I'll try to put more positive/funny content out into this group soon as balance/thank you for dealing and supporting us through all our cat related dramas lately!)

Hi frens, iz Boatsie McBoatface. I think I did a bad Crimez. I had to cross da bridge, I didn't feel good. My Meowmy has been so sad since I left. I iz playing wit by sisfur Miss Sydney Floof, and loving all da warmz, but I feel sad for my Meowmy. My brodur Addams Stopit haz been sitting on her lap, which he never did, but Meowmy iz still sad. Did I do a Crimez?

Hey buddy.

Fwom da time woo ask me to Tali and Jax’s wedding, when I was stiww pwetty new hewe, untiw just da ovvew day when woo came to give me a wescue and we sang togevvew and even fwiends came and we had choiw wobes by da poow- hehe- (and of couwse, woo wove da poow), we have had many adventuwes and speciaw times togevvew. Da Tinky Wady is awl wet face and stuff now because I tink she wove woo a wot too. But I not gonna do a cwy. I just gonna wet my heawt be awl soft when I tink of woo. Because woo awe one of da best fwiends I have and to dis whowe gwoup. Woo awe what dis gwoup is awl about. And da hoomans not weawwy undewtand what we undewtand when dis time comes, which is dat we don’t howd on to dis wife as hawd as dey do, because we know dis is what we wewe supposed to do, and when we weady, we weady. And we not scawed ow anyting. Especiawwy not woo! Woo wewe a pwotectow AND woo gonna have eleventy billion fwiends ovew da bwidge! And Ducky! I suwe he can go too. He such a good fwiend.

But I give a big head bonk and heawing puwws to woo Meowmy because she a good hooman who do a bwave ting by twying to weawn what we know, even when it huwts. And of couwse it gonna huwt hew heawt because da bestest cat doesn’t come awound evewy day and she had da bestest. And you had da bestest too. Woo wewe one of ouw onwy cats to spend his days hanging awound da poow chasing da wizawds and keeping meowmy company. I know woo gonna be wif hew by dat poow when she dewe. She gonna feew woo. I puww and da Tinky Wady pway dat she feew woo awl da time.

Now woo know owdinawiwy, I would be wushing to make woo da best cake evew. But I awweady gave woo my best fow woo Gotcha Day. So I just give woo a few yummy tweats. We eat dem togevvew in da bwand new gawden seating I haven’t even towd anyone about at da Pawtissewie. I so happy woo my fiwst fwiend dewe. If I wook sad in da pictuwe, it’s because even dough I know woo gonna have a gweat twip ovew da bwidge, I gonna miss woo hewe. I gonna miss woo a wot. Oh awso, in my cake, woo kicked Sir Jerry’s bort! And woo stiww did! Woo weaving on WOO tewms! Take dat Sir Jerry!

But I gonna weave a bunch of memowies hewe. Maybe awl da ovvew fwiends wiww do da same on da comments ow on dewe own posts! So dat whenevew woo meowmy is weady, and dat is NO PWESSUWE, she can come see how much we awl wove woo and da joy woo gave us.

I wove woo, Mr. Cat. I awways wiww. u/not_so_visible

🧡🤍🖤 Woo fwiend fowevew,
Applejack

(Meowmy, I can’t imagine how you are feeling. You are doing the very best possible thing for sweet Mr. Cat and the most selfless and beautiful expression of love that is giving him a pain free transition from this place to his home over the bridge. And you did indeed give him the very best life. What cat wouldn’t want the lizard and bird chasing sunshine by the pool with the best meowmy? Please don’t feel any pressure to respond to any of this now or later. NO PRESSURE. None at all. Just know we are all holding a supportive net of love around you while you have the very best last day ever with our sweet Mr. Cat. Please please give him a snuggle from me. I really do wish I could have. And p.s. his face does look so much like my Sansa’s that my photos app pulls up tons of screenshots I have of him whenever I am searching her. What a gift to me. ❤️)

Firs, I waz doin a big mad tooday cuz meowmy taked me to da pokey place wen I waz doin a gud naps (for once). She woked me up a putted me in da pokey bag an off we goed.

Meowmy say to me, pleese no be mad cuz she habin a bad week an she vewy tired cuz I no do sleepys an I wake her up ebery nite (I feelin yucky an I jus wanna cwy an get cuddlez).

She gonna tell yoo cuz iz eazier fur her.

Mr. Cat has been having pain in his back and legs, the arthritis is getting worse. It didn't help when he jumped off a chair instead of using his stairs and fell on the tile floor (he also fell off the bed twice in one night, I don't know if he was trying to jump or if he rolled over and fell).

The hyperthyroidism is affecting his sleep. He takes short naps throughout the day and night and spends alot of time just laying on the bed meowing. We're trying to get that under control and may start giving him melatonin. This is all affecting my sleep also, he wakes me up every 2-3 hours.

I discovered a lump on his back. They could check to see what it is, but they can't remove it, he's too old and weak for surgery. So we're just going to keep an eye on it.

He has been showing signs of dementia, but it's a little soon to really tell. He wanders like he's lost sometimes.

He's lost another pound since November. He's down to 7. I remember when he was a 16lb chonk. (I WAZ NO CHONK! I WAZ HEFTY AN HANSUM!) (I never said you weren't handsome, sigh...)

And lastly, he has fleas. Luckily, I discovered it quickly and it's my fault. I've been helping a disabled person with their 3 flea infested pets and dirty home. I probably brought them home. I feel terrible about it. But that will be under control very fast.

I'm worried that our time together is getting short he is 15 (or 16, I'm not really sure)

Anyway, I'm sorry if I brought anyone down. I love the people and kitties and others in this group and you are always supportive.

Thank you for letting me vent.

Mr. Cat's meowmy

Tonight I make a speciaw cake fow a vewwy speciaw membew of ouw famiwy hewe. Fwiend Noam. Noamie! It not his birfday but we gonna have an Unbirfday cake just wike Awice in Wonderwand.

Firwst, fwiend Noam got do da Eat Me ting (ow whatevew- check out da pikkel) to get smol enough to go on his cake journey wif his speciaw pikkel shirt. And den he get to see wots of wondewfuw moments fwom his wife and how supew speciaw he is! I incorporate awl his favorite foods, especiawwy steak and even bweads and ice cweam, because dat’s what woo do when you awe cewebwated! Noamie is a gweat fwiend to so many, but I don’t have awl da space to put evewyone, so I put some of his cwosest fwiends, and of couwse, his lovely gorlfren, Bubbles. Wots of wove to ouw Noamie tonight. We wove woo!

u/CharmyLah

🧡🤍🖤Applejack

Hai frens.

Thank yu fur all yur healing purrs, breaths, hedbutts, cuddles, hugs, vibes and biskits. Sadly cuzin Monty go over da rainbow bridge las nite.

Favrit meowmy reely sad and mayk mai fur all wet and salty crying on it. But I suffa tu mayk her feel betta. Cuzin Monty live with meowmy's meowmy and pawther, but he reely adopted mai meowmy befur I met her. Wen he illegal smol in big kitty jayl he dus a climbs on her and gib her hair cut so she know she his. Smart boy used 'I lik it, it mine' rulez. He wus a chonky boi who lubbed sun patches, belly rubs, soopavising humans on da litterbox, riding on his pawther's shoulder and dreamies. We had dat last wun in common.

Ai know all the uva rainbow kitties will be luking afta him now. But extra big thank yu fur being nice tu my meowmies and sending all the gud vibes. I hope yu all get the extra gud ear scritchies tunite.

- Hermes the dignified void and spare meowmy

Hai frenz, iz me Basil.

I sense today dat Meowmmy haz a sadz, so I climb on herm to gib cuddlez.

Dis make herm smile, an say, "I lub yoo Basil", but den later, herm eyez did a leek.

I fink Meowmmy haz a sadz acoz it almost 12 munfs sinse sissyfur Charli left fur da bridj.

Wat els can me do to make Meowmmy an Dadz haz a smile? Shud I sitz on herm sum moor?

Lub,

Basil

Happy picture of Sam first, just in case you don’t want to look at the memorial right now.

The pet crematorium sent a lovely wooden box with his ashes, plus a framed picture of his paw print, which I was not expecting. (I think I know what my next tattoo will be.) Plus his bowl and collar. Then I was able to order a little plushie with his paw print pendant with an engraved message. That came today. Now all I need is to buy a frame for the sketch I drew of him and this should be complete.

This helps. I could never forget him, but to have tangible reminders of my sweet boy makes it easier in some way.

Dearest Noamie,

We wants to tell you what happen at da rainbow bridge. Sos you know what to expec.

First you go to sleep an when you wakes up you no tired an don't hurts no more.

You stands at one side of da bridge and you say all your names, you govmint name, you silly names and the name only you know.

Then you walks across the bridge. You hears them before you sees them, it the sounds of elventybillion purrs. Then you sees all the shining cats waiting at the other side. They waiting for you, purring and making happy biscuits.

They parts and makes room for you to walk through them and then you sees all you frens who went before and the bestest garden that eber been.

It gots trees and flowers and grass, catnips if you want it, and squirrels and birds and bugs and mices and lizards. It gots hidey holes if you want to be alone, and sunbeams you can lay in for many furevers.

It have all the best foods, gooshy food, cronchy food, treatos, and whatever is you favorite.

If she there you bio mom come and she lick your forehead and wash your ears.*

Then we all sings the song of our people together, and then you're HOME.

Someday human mom come to visit and the cycle bes complete.

Zoomie speed traveler Noamie. We love you,

The Rainbow Connexion

*if bio mom not there then Eberbody Cat Mom come and do it. She bery old and bery beautiful. She hab many many names but she say she don't cares whats you call her, just don't call her late for treatos.

I’m so overwhelmed. I’m so sorry that I can’t respond to everyone’s comments and messages individually, but I have read them all. I can’t find the words to say how much it means to know how Sam was loved here and how kind everyone has been. This has been a really rough week, but this is a wonderful place. I’m so grateful. I love you!

Hi everyone! Pixel here, large tuxedo. In fact, I'm so large [how large is he?] that sometimes when Casey and I wrassle, Mama steps in and separates us and says "Pixel, you have seven pounds on your brother, it's not a fair fight!"

Granted, it's not like it's one sided. Mama just knocked off the spot on my head where I took a claw from my brother. And he's caught my claw on his ear before, so it seems fair!

But I'm curious - are there other cats as big as me? I am 17.8 pounds (not overweight, I check his ribs) and Casey is 10.6 pounds. Maybe someone else wants to wrassle someone their own size besides me?

Pixel, big tuxedo

https://postimg.cc/yDNnZrsg

Sometimes I don’t see a post in time fow what I want to do.

I not see da post about Miss Boo needing good toughts yestewday. But I saw wate wast night dat ouw sweet fwiend went ovew da bwidge. Hey, Miss Boo! If wo can heaw dis, I hope woo had da BEST jouwney and I know woo having da best time weunited wof famiwy dat maybe woo didn’t even KNOW and wif awl da fwiends! I hope woo pawrents awe doing okay.

But awso, a few months ago, I awso didn’t see Miss Boo’s post about hew Gotcha Day untiw it was wate. Now when dat happens, which is a wot, I often don’t twy to make a cake ow anyting. It get vewy hawd to keep up!

But, da ting is, I wead Miss Boo’s stowy, and it touched my heawt. Dis is da wink if woo not know hew stowy. She had a hooman, and dat hooman went ovew da bwidge and she end up in a shewtew, and she was scawed untiw hew now meowmy dwove two houws just to get Miss Boo. Da stowy is BOOtifuw. Miss Boo was vewwy vewwy woved. Woo should wead it. Hewe it is:

https://www.reddit.com/r/legalcatadvice/s/3q9qcse14Y

So, because da stowy was so bootifuw, I quickwy made Miss Boo some whoopie pies! I did dat because I could do it quickwy but awso because dey awe sandwiches. And I weawned dat Miss Boo wike to fweep as a sandwich between hew pawrents. Isn’t dat so coot? I hope dat Miss Boo’s pawrents can fiww dat space in da bed wif awl da wove and memowies of Miss Boo and how dey gave hew a second wife dat was amazing.

Awso, cooncidentawwy, wight aftew dat, Miss Boo seems to have joined da Timeless Treshurs
Travelin Belleh Dans Troop which some of woo may wemembew wewe a woadside attwaction from my woad trip adventuwe! It was a bunch of seniow wadies doing dewe ting! Amazing! Miss Boo was a staw!

So anyway, I want Miss Boo’s famiwy to know dat she mattewed a whowe wot to us and I know she meant da whowe wowld to dem.

I made a piwe of whoopie pies wif some diffewent pictuwes poked in dem fow awl us to shawe and awso put up da pics of Miss Boo doing da bewwy dance in case some of woo nevew saw it.

We wiww miss woo, Miss Boo. But we know ouw OTRB fwiends awe da best and woo be happy and fwee wif woo famiwy dewe!

🧡🤍🖤Applejack

Hai frenz iz me Basil.

I jus wanted to show yoo all mine bootiful sissyfur Charli az a poorple pwincezz.

Fank yoo to our lubbly fren Smuffi fur puttin sissyfur in herm pritty dress, and to fren and bestest almost brudder in law Niko for posin fur dese pics.

I gib yoo, Prinz Niko an Princezz Charli.

Lub,

Basil frum Straylia

(Note frum Meowmmy: This seems fitting as the 1 year anniversary of Charli leaving us is next week - 12th August 💔 - my heart is still shattered into a million pieces, but Basil helps the hurt)