New to Catsite and grieving

I just stumbled upon this website tonight, what perfect timing! On August 4th, my 6 year old baby boy Jasper passed away after a sudden kidney infection. The next week I got engaged so I really did not have time to grieve losing him. Now that the excitement of the engagement has died down I have circled around in the grief cycle.
Jasper was a very spirited kitty who loved eating lettuce, playing with plastic tealight holders, chewing up non edible items, and cuddling in the mornings. Often times he acted like a watchdog- sleeping in between me and the front door every night. He was not an ordinary cat, and required the house to be "Jasper proof."
I am so happy I got to spend 6 years of my life with him. He was a big ball of fluff!
The day he passed away I was visiting him in the hospital and he reached out his paw through the kennel, something he had never done before. I truly believe this was his way of telling me goodbye. I was so blessed to have one of the best vet hospitals guide me through those last days providing support and excellent care.
I miss him every day!
Thank you for letting me share! It is so nice to know there are people out there who understand what it is like to lose a pet.

I'm very sorry for your loss. RIP, Jasper.

Have you seen www.petloss.com? It helps many people in their grieving over their pets.

I am so very sorry for your loss. I understand your pain, as I lost my Alex a couple of weeks ago. It has helped me to look at pictures of him, and remember the good times we had.
Hold onto your sweet memories. RIP little Jasper
((((HUGS)))
Sierra

When a pet passes away so quickly like that, its very hard. I had a similar experience in my family. We cat, she had a eating disorder and was overweight. She had been acting little friskier than usual, then one morning, we found her in the computer room under the chair. She was screaming and her eyes were dialated and she couldn't move her back legs. It turned out that a blood clot from somewhere up her bloodstream, got loose and traveled down to the main vein that supplies blood to her back legs and got stuck pretty much killing her back legs. The vet told us that there was nothing we could do. They said they could give us meds that could prolong her life for a few months but she would still be in so much pain. We ended up putting her to sleep one hour after finding her in the computer room.
It was so sudden, we really didn't have time to register it until a couple days later. We just couldn't beleive that she was gone. It was all so sudden, one day she was fine then next she was gone.

I hope you make it through this hard time, your Jasper will be missed.

Jasper

I have a tear after hearing this, as I am sure Jasper was reaching out to you that day to say goodbye . And, he is still reaching out to you today, I am sure. He is in your heart forever. I am sorry for your sudden loss.

Jasper Play peacefully little one.....

RIP Jasper. You went much too soon.

I'm so sorry. Jasper was still a baby at 6 years of age

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