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Apr. 21st, 2010 10:17 amI have just received word that our family cat has been missing for two weeks and, going on the condition he was in when he disappeared, is pretty much guaranteed to be dead.
By all the news I am receiving on this just now I feel... god. I feel like I should have done something. He was NOT loved in his last days. He was indoor/outdoor and fightsome his whole life, and he kept injuring himself, which made my family reluctant to spend time with him. I am quite angry — at my family, and at myself, for not keeping a closer eye on the situation. I don't know what I could have done, with my own three cats and dog, but I feel like there had to have been something.
Those four, the cats and dog that I keep with my partner, are fine, no worries there. Just the old family cat. He'd been in the family for... 10-odd years?
Well. There are further woes, I guess, with the parents wanting to borrow Trav for the weekend (I kind of really need all my lifelines just now, but I don't think I'm capable of saying no TWICE when I already denied them last weekend, when Trav was sick), and they want me to babysit the kids (okay) and take them to their expensive gymnastics lessons (WHAT don't you need money right now?) and just... I am out of energy to be angry, really. I can't tell them no when I know how hard everything is for them right now.
The cat's name was Sherkhan. I am really tired.
By all the news I am receiving on this just now I feel... god. I feel like I should have done something. He was NOT loved in his last days. He was indoor/outdoor and fightsome his whole life, and he kept injuring himself, which made my family reluctant to spend time with him. I am quite angry — at my family, and at myself, for not keeping a closer eye on the situation. I don't know what I could have done, with my own three cats and dog, but I feel like there had to have been something.
Those four, the cats and dog that I keep with my partner, are fine, no worries there. Just the old family cat. He'd been in the family for... 10-odd years?
Well. There are further woes, I guess, with the parents wanting to borrow Trav for the weekend (I kind of really need all my lifelines just now, but I don't think I'm capable of saying no TWICE when I already denied them last weekend, when Trav was sick), and they want me to babysit the kids (okay) and take them to their expensive gymnastics lessons (WHAT don't you need money right now?) and just... I am out of energy to be angry, really. I can't tell them no when I know how hard everything is for them right now.
The cat's name was Sherkhan. I am really tired.