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"Something else I was going to tell you, I had to put Nippy to sleep, she was not doing well and they thought it was cancer so instead of making her suffer I put her to sleep. I had her cremated and that way if we ever move, we can take her with us. So I picked out another kitten from pet smart, he is really cute four white paws and a tabby"

bummer

rip nippy






background on the cat...it started showing up to my moms place(when i first started state) when it was prolly around 7 months...about 3 days later she brought her kittens...mom gave away the kittens and got her fixed

7/3/2008 6:55:54 PM

dude, at least protect the carpet. shit's gonna be fowl in a couple days.

7/3/2008 6:58:27 PM

that was a cute kitty...
always sad to lose a pet

7/3/2008 6:58:45 PM

7/3/2008 6:58:48 PM

honestly i was kinda surprised at the whole cremated thing

7/3/2008 9:11:07 PM

7/3/2008 9:23:30 PM

put her in a cat food bag and bury her under a bush/natural area

or just toss her into the trash

[Edited on July 3, 2008 at 9:35 PM. Reason : ]

7/3/2008 9:34:42 PM

sorry....i'm guessing my mom is gonna live another 25 years at least...wonder if shes gonna keep all the cats she has in that time

7/3/2008 10:22:48 PM

7/3/2008 10:43:15 PM

what was wrong with her? if she was 7 months when you started....she couldnt have been that old...

7/3/2008 10:46:42 PM

started aug 03...so like 4 years 11 months or so...plus about 6 or 7 months..."they thought it was cancer"

7/3/2008 10:48:50 PM

^ at 5 years old?? i call bs.

7/3/2008 10:49:56 PM

obviously she knew something was up...doc told her they thought it was cancer...i dont know anyone that knows more about taking care of cats than my mom...i think i trust her judgement in this matter

7/3/2008 10:51:44 PM

I want to find a hair from my old cat and use his DNA to clone him. He was the best cat ever

7/3/2008 10:53:19 PM

^^ not calling your mom on bs. calling the dr on it. unless she had feleuk, but she should have been tested for that.

7/3/2008 11:00:17 PM

well what else coulda been causing my cat to suffer other than cancer?

7/3/2008 11:01:04 PM

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"that was a cute kitty... always sad to lose a pet"

Sorry, dnl.

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"at 5 years old?? i call bs."

Are you insinuating that cats have to be old to have cancer?

[Edited on July 3, 2008 at 11:07 PM. Reason : ]

7/3/2008 11:06:30 PM

thanks bethany

7/3/2008 11:08:34 PM

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"I want to find a hair from my old cat and use his DNA to clone him. He was the best cat ever "

i'm going to clone a cat from a picture.

sorry for your loss.

7/4/2008 12:42:57 AM

thanks...she was really shy and kinda standoffish but still a good cat at heart...would always purr really loud if you could get to her

7/4/2008 12:46:24 AM

btw...this is 13 days old

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"Took casper and jasper for their shots and the vet said she thought casper has lost too much weight since his last visit, so she tested him for all things he could be tested for. She thought his thyroid is over or underacting, anyway turns out he has to take medicine forever for his thyroid. The other option is to have radiation for a week at a mere cost of 2000 and he would be cured. So I was wondering if you could find out if that vet school does stuff like this and maybe could do it for less. I am not in the mood to give him this medicine 2 times a day for the rest of his life. I will, but I sure would like him to be cured instead. Thought maybe you could find something out for me. The vet said everything else was great for his age. If we were to do nothing he would waste away to nothing she said, she has had cats come in that were 3 pounds….gross! "

this is the latest cat drama...costs 1250 at the ncsu vet hospital...pretty sure shes gonna get it done there and i get to have the cat for like a week(which will be kinda cool)

7/25/2008 2:48:44 AM

cats r USELESS animals.

and sluts. so there.

7/25/2008 2:50:31 AM

dude, radiation and shots..... more like NO

7/25/2008 3:06:30 AM

^^They aren't useless, mine is pretty good at keeping my stress level up. But he's about to get some new friends so maybe that'll help him out a little.

7/25/2008 3:48:20 AM

Good luck with the radiation, all the cats that I knew that had it done seemed to do great afterwards (worked in a vet ER for 4 years)

7/25/2008 7:48:56 AM

Sorry about your kitty.

7/25/2008 9:27:04 AM

^thanks i wasnt that attached to nippy, cause it didnt come until the sept after i first came to state....but i've had casper since i was like 13...i hope he does well


^^thats what the vet told my mom as well....my mom says he keeps puking up the medicine and wont eat

7/25/2008 9:51:47 AM

I don't know how, but I'm sure that you in some way brought this upon yourself.

7/25/2008 9:54:08 AM

lol how so?


so what do you think mr emce, should my mom spend 1250 on a 10 year old cat that could potentially die in 2 years anyways?

7/25/2008 9:55:01 AM

no

I t would be a different story if she had invested that money earlier by the way of pet health insurance...

but regardless of an attachment to a cat (dogs are different, OK?!), I couldn't justify spending that kind of money

7/25/2008 10:01:01 AM

do different breeds of cat behave differently? I've never quite understood that

7/25/2008 10:02:33 AM

yeah i actually asked her about the pet insurance thing...she was like nope and i was like "i'm pretty sure such a thing exists" and she said no one would insure it now that its sick

[Edited on July 25, 2008 at 10:03 AM. Reason : ^^yeah i asked her if my stepdad was cool with paying it cause hes the main $ource]

[Edited on July 25, 2008 at 10:03 AM. Reason : ^idk...she always gets like slick hair kinda cats...not the puffy nappy ones]

7/25/2008 10:02:40 AM

....just like any insurance
it's best if you get it before. those vet visits and treatments would cost a mere drop in the bucket

7/25/2008 10:05:26 AM

I know how you feel. I've lost several cats in my lifetime. But none of them died humanely

7/25/2008 10:11:25 AM

and a lot of pet insurances are rip offs (much like regular insurance, i suppose)

but yea it is really hard unless you do it right when you first get a pet. otherwise your pet will have pre-existing conditions

7/25/2008 10:12:18 AM

Problem with pet insurance is it's about $20 a month for a cat. So $240 a year. Some policies pay a little for shots, so maybe spending $220 more than without insurance. For 10 years that's $2,200, or not worth it.

When I get a dog I'll get insurance, but only because the ones I like are prone to doing things like accidentally ripping out a canine while playing, and that's expensive to replace.

7/25/2008 10:40:54 AM

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"well what else coulda been causing my cat to suffer other than cancer?"

there are lots of other causes for pain/suffering in animals. one of my cats had some (supposedly painful) kidney problems- had it not been caught soon enough, it would have gotten worse and worse and eventually killed her. Also, my mother had a cat that had several different problems causing her pain. When I was visiting, I found her one morning having seizures and took her to my father's clinic- turns out she had been seriously ill for a long time, and was in almost constant pain. But none of it was cancer related- just a variety of organ issues/failures.

sorry bout losing the kitteh those situations are never easy

[Edited on July 25, 2008 at 10:43 AM. Reason : grammar]

7/25/2008 10:42:53 AM

there are plenty of healthy cats and dogs up for adoption that will be put down

i know folks get attached, but you have to learn to let go

you can save the life of a young, healthy animal for cheap, or spend $texas to extend the life of an old animal a few more years at best

but that's just me

sorry about your cat

[Edited on July 25, 2008 at 10:44 AM. Reason : either way a kitty dies]

7/25/2008 10:44:03 AM

^ and ^^- thanks i hope casper lives...hes 10 but in excellent condition other than the thyroid thing

7/26/2008 1:57:38 AM

i would've cremated that bad boy fo free.

7/26/2008 2:08:36 AM

bttt

[Edited on August 9, 2008 at 1:38 AM. Reason : for someone]

8/9/2008 1:37:50 AM

I have a dog named Casper

8/9/2008 1:38:46 AM

^^^ yeah thats pretty disgusting.

[Edited on August 9, 2008 at 1:39 AM. Reason : f]

8/9/2008 1:38:56 AM

so this cat:



had a hyperthyroid...it leads to death(like, "no chance" of it getting better)...either it can take some purple gooey stuff or get radiation...my mom got the radiation done and said he is doing fine now

<3 casper...rip nippy

8/23/2008 3:23:28 AM

That's a pretty cat dnl...I know I am late on this but sorry to hear about nippy

8/23/2008 8:21:14 AM

you should've named it whitey though

8/23/2008 9:16:19 AM

wasn't nippy the granddad's jack russel's name in the problem child movies

8/23/2008 9:21:25 AM

yup

8/23/2008 11:12:54 AM

Dead Pussy

8/23/2008 11:14:40 AM

rip nippy

8/23/2008 11:25:53 AM