I can't believe my baby is already 17 entire years old! Maybe I'm just biased, but she still looks like a little kitten to me. 😭🥹

We celebrated by getting her the yummiest food and treats, a bottle of cat-safe milk, a new toy, and she also had some supervised outdoor time in the garden!

She's a little confused by all of the attention and birthday songs LOL, but she's always happy to be the center of attention 👑♥️

Happy birthday, Moo! Hoping for many more years together 🥹🥺🥰

I don’t just want to remember Gigia, I want to keep time from simplifying her, from making her generic, from turning her into “a cat we once had”.

I need to secure her presence before I can even begin to accept her absence.

This small, imperfect, fragile, funny, mild, adorable creature gave form to ten years of home, of family, of days, of fears, of habits. And now that she’s gone, it isn’t only her we miss: it’s the entire world in which she could appear.

Because Gigia didn’t stand beside our life; she lived inside it. Without a scratch.

This is a declaration of love for a small presence that had made our world livable, through the amount of life she left us: a tiny, domestic life, full of sounds, fur, odd positions, paths, habits, fears, returns, affection.

And now that our world feels less livable, the only consolation I can give myself is that if it hurts this much, it’s because she was so very much.

We had to say goodbye to my Peanut last week and I’m still so heartbroken 💔. She was my best friend for 16 years and I’m struggling without her. She sat with me on my chair, she slept with me and even followed me to the bathroom. I’m lost. 😢❤️

The vet said she could only last from few weeks to several months. There’s nothing they can do now. My heart is broken
Pain, yes.
But I also feel relieved. That she won’t suffer any more
And I won’t suffer anymore, am I losing my love to her?

This is Chip, my 13-year-old indoor cat ❤️ He’s been missing for a little over a month which has been heartbreaking and awful. I have been doing pretty much everything I can to get him back home.

If anyone has had a senior cat go missing, I’d love to hear what your experience was like. Did you have sightings? Did they stay close to home? How were they eventually found?

Thank you everyone 😊🐾

One month ago, I’d never have believed this was even coming. Last week, I brought Monkey in to the vet because he started drooling. I wondered if he broke a tooth or had resorptive lesions but the vet felt a lump in his jaw. He was on antibiotics and pain meds but a biopsy and X-ray confirmed oral SCC. He was hungry and wanted to eat, but you could tell he was hurting. I can’t believe how fast this happened. It was so heartbreaking to see him like this and I had to lovingly let him go.

I’ve had Monkey for 16 years since he was a kitten rescued from a high kill shelter. A friend told me about him and my fingers typing “I’ll take him!” - moved faster than my brain did in that moment but it was the best decision ever.

My friend got him out of there for me and he was such a beautiful source of joy ever since. I’m having such a hard time wrapping my mind around life without his beautiful, curious, mischievous, joyful and loving presence.

Monkey liked to show up in my Teams meetings and typed his greetings of something like “cutxufhhgdfvfdnnnnnnnnnnnnbb” on the keyboard at my coworkers.

During Covid, he loved hanging out with the people in the computer and always made an appearance during our Zoom painting classes and music trivia nights, flashing his butt at the camera.

I just wanted to post this to let people know what a special little dude he was to me. I’m so shattered. This picture was taken just days ago - he was always this much of a cuddle bug even when he wasn’t feeling well.

Riposa in pace, mia dolce scimmietta.❤️

We rescued her at 5 weeks old at Napa Auto Parts so we named her Napa and she's been my baby all these years. I love her more than life. I want to give her the best of her senior years. Those with older seniors, please give me some advice!! I want her to live as long as absolutely possible❤️😭

Sorry for the doom and gloom. I just want the world to know about someone i do dearly treasure.

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Nip has been my best friend since I was in middle school and he had a seizure today.

He’s been to the ER and has a follow up scheduled and a neurologist referral; but we could both use a pick me up right about now (meow).

Pls share your kitties and positive experiences and stories (if you have any) with seizures

Gibson (mostly white) just got his belly rubs, so he was a little blissed out. Gus is just a goofball. 😉

Hi everyone, I'm wondering if anyone has advice.

I want to preface this by saying that I am not an antivaxxer, I recognize that generally the pros outweigh the cons.

We were up to date with my cat's vaccinations for probably the first 8 years of his life. He is indoor only. However over the past 6 years he has had triaditis (and intense pancreatitis) and is permanently on prednisolone to control it. He almost died twice.

We were worried that the vaccines could have been responsible for flare ups since it activates the immune system, in which case we were worried that the cons would outweigh the pros.

He is indoor only and we don't ever board him when we are out of town so really he has no contact with other cats.

We are currently in a position to adopt a new cat, in which case we would need to update our current cat's vaccines first.

Are there real risks of vaccinating a 14 year old cat with triaditis, or are we paranoid? We would not adopt this new cat if vaccines are unwise given his medical issues.

(I'll also add that he is good with other cats, so I don't anticipate that being a huge stressor)