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Do Cats Mourn The Death of Other Cats?
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Posted 3 years ago by rainingwolf #
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Yes they do, imho. I do think its easier if they get the chance to see the kitty after the crossing of the bridge, but thats my personal belief.
Posted 3 years ago by AZDEBRA 5/27 & crew #
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YES!! Even though Shaddo was 17 and had many health issues, his poor heart broke when Jiggs died.
Posted 3 years ago by JoanfromNewJersey #
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No doubt about it! When my Katie passed, Snowman ran away from home looking for her. He wasn't with us when we buried her but he found her grave, that's where we found him.
Posted 3 years ago by debsterwiz #
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Ironic that this would show up. While looking for Lacy's vet records,I came across the paper work & sympathy cards for all my past babies. When I found my Julie's, her picture was up beside the name of the pet. Not only did I sob out loud for the loss of her,but it made me think about how my Binky mourned the loss of his buddy Dweeb & then he lost his next one Julie & mourned all over again. Why did I know this wasn't going to be a good day to get up?
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Certainly they do! Sam has only been gone two weeks and Coco still sniffs around, pawing into cracks and hidey-holes where he might be, trying to get him to come out. She looks so lost. She has taken to hanging around GizzysUncle as if a male, any species, will help fill the hole in her life.
Posted 3 years ago by GizzysAuntie #
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We had seven kitties, five were always mean to Belle, from the day she arrived at 8 weeks until the last of them died when she was 14 - she didn't miss them even a little bit. However, one, Alec loved her dearly from the moment she arrived and when he died she was ten and she mourned him for many months, maybe years, maybe still.
Posted 3 years ago by DancingCatHill #
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Oh my yes! Years ago I had a pair of boys, littermates, who were inseparable companions, playmates, and snugglers. After Nika died, Scamper searched and cried for him for weeks. And for the rest of his life he would sometimes wake up from when I could see he'd been dreaming and look all happy and alert and start calling for Nika to come play and then would get so depressed when Nika wasn't there after all. I'm convinced he would dream of playing with Nika and that made him think Nika might still be there.
Years later, when our cat Thomas died suddenly one morning at home, Tigger tried to revive him by washing his face. After a few minutes, Tigger changed from licking that seemed determined to reviving Thomas to a more gentle, mournful washing as if he were saying goodbye. Tigger was so withdrawn, depressed and needing tons of extra love afterwards for the longest time. Only a few months later my mom went to the hospital and Dad and I were there with her almost around the clock for four months until she died in hospice care. Poor Tigger was so much alone he began to act like he was terribly lonely, even after Dad and I were back home on a regular schedule. So we eventually brought home Alice and Frisky, littermate kittens, to be Tigger's companions. He perked right up and became his old self right away.
So yes, animals have emotions no matter what any so called scientific experts may claim nay. God created his wonderful precious creatures with emotions and spirits all their own. Whether or not they have souls the same as people, I don't know, but I certainly believe it possible, heresy though many may claim that to be.
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Rainingwolf, not to change the subject but everytime I look at your kitty's picture (avatar) it looks so much like Red (the latest patio kitty who just had the dental work done) they could be brothers.
Posted 3 years ago by AZDEBRA 5/27 & crew #
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Yes they do. Having had other cat's in my house, they look for the one who is missing. Mine, cried when they came across the scent of the one who had passed. My Lucky, laid on the towel at the corner, as Stevie left this world and knew before the vet or I did that she had gone to the bridge. He sniffed her, looked at me with a look I will never forget, and walked away, only to lay 2 feet away. I didn't know if he blamed me or just understood. When the vet took her away, he came to me with the look in his eyes that he understood, but I will never forget that. They know, and as we do, move on, sad, but move on just the same.
Posted 3 years ago by Lynn from PA 6/8 #
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yes lydia still looks for kizzykat. she looks for her in the hallway and watches for her to come around the corner. i think she and i still feel the loss. i still sleep with kizzy's heating pad. it's a king size one that is soft from walgreens. she used it all the time. now i use it. lydia was looking at kizzy's ashes the other day which i felt was interesting. my mother lives with us and she misses kizzy to. it feels as if someoone is missing from the house, and empty spot. and lydia meows for kizzy.
yes i believe the cats do miss each other when one passes away.
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My kitten Jack passed yesterday. Although his natural sister Abby does not really seem affected. My older cat does. She has been sitting on top of the couch just staring off into space, and this morning she was crying through out the house. My hubby says that we should go and rescue another kitten to try to ease their pain. I really do not know what to do. I am really hurting. I don't know if I want another kitty.
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Julie - welcome to TDK. So sorry about the loss of Jack. You'll know when the time is right for a new fur-baby. I am one of the few on this site who has not yet gone through the loss of a kitty. I have 2; Chloe age almost 6, and Mili, just over 2... and they are my first ever cats.
This is a safe place to grieve...
Oh and please start a new thread to introduce yourself and tell us about your kitties - share your favorite story about Jack.
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Mine have. Little Luna and her brother Neville are just abbout a year old, and they love to play together and do everything together. As much fun as they have together, I know that when one of them goes, the other will be very sad.
Posted 2 years ago by ClaudesMommy #
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Tansey missed her brofur when we put him to sleep. They went to the vet at the same time (she got her shots) but only she came home (and Baz's empty carrier).
She was lonely, but after a couple of days she began spending a LOT more time with my husband and I. Slept on the bed between us every night, didn't want us out of her sight.
She knew he was dim in the head, but she still missed him. As soon as we brought Hermes into the house over a year later, she stopped spending so much time with us. I kinda miss that closeness.
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They definitely do. It is harder for them if the departed friend went to the Bridge outside the home, they don't understand why he/she is gone. My Missy died at home during the night, so I let Sheba and Nala smell her before I took her body away to be cremated. It seemed to give them closure and were able to better deal with her loss. When Rocky died at teh vet's after cnacer surgery, Ozzy was so dpressed and confused, they were inseparable.
Posted 2 years ago by Sheba's Mom in Raleigh, NC #
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And they pick up on our emotions too. They are sad when we are sad.
Posted 2 years ago by Sheba's Mom in Raleigh, NC #
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Thirty years ago, I had a cat, Watson, and brought home a stray kitten, Moontoo. We lived in a rural area, off a dirt road surrounded by fields. A few weeks after getting Moontoo, she and Watson were playing in the yard when a neighbor boy ran his truck off the road into a ditch just to hit Moontoo. Watson was devastated. He'd sit at the sight and yeowled for a week. We didn't have Moontoo for long, but he loved and mourned her.
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I hope you beat the $#*t out of that neighbor boy for murdering your cat, BobosMom. Better yet, I hope he found out what it's like to lose a beloved pet at the hands of another (obviously not good for the pet, but it would serve the neighbor boy right for deliberately taking one of God's creatures off the planet).
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I have read the posts and now see that Abby is in mourning as well. She has been all over my hubby and I since Jack never came home yesterday. Sassy is still just sitting there. And it is funny because when I first brought them home from the shelter sassy did not want anything to do with them. Jack will be missed. He used to sit on the floor next to the chair where I sit on my pc and just stare up at me when he wanted my attention. I am going to miss his big green eyes looking at me or his kisses when I would pick him up.
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From the day Winston died, my other cat, his brother and life partner NEVER ate but half the food. Each and every day for 14 years they had shared their food, their litter boxes and their kitty beds. They were best friends and soul mates - you never saw one without the other..... when Winston died, Buc ate only half the food every day until he died, which was 4 years later - he never gave up hope that his buddy would come back...... it always made me sad. When Buc died, I know he was the happiest cat in the world/heaven because they were reunited... it actually made loosing him a little easier...... *tears now*
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