©2013 Renee Espriu
free now from your pain
to smell everything fragrant
to be running free again
rest well my feline friend
© August 2013
Renee Espriu
Hemingway was 17yrs old and my last feline friend to cross over to something better. He had been in a decline for a time now and, as it pained me to see him go, I have to believe that I did him a service after all.
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Oh sad, Renee. He was beautiful.
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He was quite the fellow and so very smart. He had six digits on every paw and so used his front paw as though he had a thumb and picked up things. When he was a kitten he use to pick the thumb tacks out of my bulletin board and I would find everything on the carpet when I got home from work. I could tell him anything and he would do what I asked. Very clever, indeed, and I will miss him.
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A sweet homage. Renee, to your lovely little polydactyl – so appropriately named. Handsome fellow! I’m so sorry. These things are difficult. The decision to help him on his way was the kindest one you could make. I know he was well loved and well cared and had a good life. No regrets.
Many blessings headed your way today. I know you are missing your Hemingway and all the little sweeties preceeding him. xo
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Thank you. The house is very quiet without him. He never was very chatty until after I had to have his buddy put to sleep two years ago and then he never stopped. Sometimes when I was tired I would lose patience but he always seemed to soften me up with the clever things he did. I just knew he understood everything I said. They were very kind at the Vet and if you know about Washington State, there is a mountain here…Mt Rainier…and they spread his ashes there so now he is with his buddy.
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That sounds like about as perfect a closure as you can get. A lovely place and, I hope, a lovely peace.
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Thank You!
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Awww Renee, I know of something of which you speak, My own Cat was 21 when she passed with help from the vet, as I too had to make that decision as she had a series of strokes. They are our Best Friends and Comforters who bring to us healing in many ways….
I feel for your Loss Renee, I really do, my home felt empty after she had gone, and we rescued a cat of 7 yrs of age around about 6 months after, she lived until she was 14, but we have been Pet Free now for a number of years apart from tropical fish! … Part of us leaves with them I think, But I know they are fine and have from time to time spied with my psychic eye my oldest Cat and in the beginning months after her passing, I would feel her upon my Bed as thats where she’d sleep as she jumped up to purr in my ear! and thats the honest truth…
Love to you my friend
Sue xox
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Aww, Renee, I am so sorry to hear of this transition. I know he had a good life, and an indelible spirit interwoven in your daily life. Know in your heart, he understood all you did for him, and he knew you did all in his best interest as his guardian in this realm. May the memories of him and his spirit bring you joy. Namaste ~~ xox becca
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Thank you so much, Becca. I get very attached to my pets and say I will never do it again and then I do. My 1st dog lived until 13 and the next until 18. Then I got Oliver, my cat, and he lived until 18 and now Hemingway at 17. I cried so much for him and thought…I will wait, I will. But I have wanted another dog for many years now. (Haven’t had one for over 20yrs). So, I adopted a dear thing whose name is Dulce. I have had her a little over a week now and am glad I went ahead and did it. I still miss my Heming but he is with his buddy, Oliver, now.
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I hope you post photos of Dulce — I had a cat named Dulce Corazon (sweetheart), until we found out she was really a he — and much older than we though — so we nicknamed him DC … I totally understand the emptiness in the house once they have crossed … I cannot imagine not having “someone” around. 😀
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Just posted a pic of a dog that looks like it could be Dulce’s sibling. Hemingway was a talker, for sure, and although Dulce is quiet she is something wonderful…late nights and all. LOL 🙂
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