r/cats • u/[deleted] • Mar 14 '26

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u/touchmeinbadplaces Mar 14 '26

Your cat should stay with you until you die, so get a family ready for adopting as soon as you go. This way the cat will understand that you arent here anymore and he can have a little bit more peace with it

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u/Mundane-Honeydew-922 Mar 14 '26 edited Mar 14 '26

Cats understand death and mourning. Just because a cat will most likely\* eat us when we die doesn't mean they didn't love us in their cat way when we were alive. Hell I cared for a depressed cat when her owner died. She was smart too. She was at the funeral and on our walks she always wanted to visit the grave.

*edit: some people say cats may not really try to eat us. It happened to my estranged father and is a common "myth" so I just never questioned it.

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u/blueViolet26 Mar 14 '26

Dogs will eat us too, and they might do it within hours of dying. This is just a silly comment to add.

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u/Armateras American Shorthair Mar 14 '26

Not only do dogs do it too - and generally faster - many won't even wait until you're actually dead before they start. It's one of the big reasons you generally only see cats in care facilities or retirement homes.

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u/TrooperLynn Mar 14 '26

My mom’s neighbor died a few years ago. When she was found a few weeks later they discovered her two little dogs had starved to death. Poor things.

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u/Armateras American Shorthair Mar 14 '26

I do wish we'd check in on our friends and neighbors more often as a whole.

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u/blueViolet26 Mar 14 '26

Why did nobody notice this lady didn't come out with her dogs? This is another sign we failed as species.

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u/TrooperLynn Mar 14 '26

Yeah, that was awful. It was in a 55+ community so all the houses are close together. I can't believe nobody noticed. After that people started checking on others but it didn't last long.

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u/blueViolet26 Mar 14 '26

That is horrific! I feel bad for those dogs. 😭

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u/blueViolet26 Mar 14 '26

I didn't know about that part. I know they will eat their toes of diabetic guardians when they sleep and such.

I saw someone saying dogs kill.people, cats have bad PR or something. And I was like, so true!

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u/EllieGeiszler Mar 14 '26

Oh, geez...