It Has Been One Week

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First, I want to thank my dear friends who have offered condolences and solace on the loss of our beloved Doodles the cat. I especially want to thank those of you (and you know who you are), who have sent me messages and checked in with me very often since my last post. Secondly, I tried my best to myLot, but couldn’t concentrate. I still can’t. I’m so sorry. I don’t know how I will manage to catch up, but I will try. The mobile vet came to our house last Tuesday, November 12th to euthanize poor Doodles, who was suffering from intestinal cancer. It was time. He had been moaning and groaning, barely ate, and slept most of the time. He managed to go outside his last few days, sat in the warm sunshine, took a final walk around our yard, and even saw a few chipmunks. Our son held him when the vet gave him a sedative and held Doodles while he looked at the birds outside our windows. We were told that he may vomit, and he did spit up. We laid him on a blanket and kissed him and thanked him for bringing such joy into our lives as he received his final injection. I watched the breath leave him forever. He was buried immediately in a coffin my husband built wrapped in his favorite blanket with his stuffed animals, Mr. Goosie and Mr. Baby, next to his sister, Kuma, in my rock garden, which they both loved. A headstone marks each kitty’s location. Imagine my surprise when two days later I discovered the imprints that suddenly occurred on the headstones. Doodles has an image of himself, but I found this image on his sister’s headstone, which had been smooth since its placement last year. I tried to outline it in my photo. Doodles is with Kuma in Heaven and has his paw around her. Neither are alone anymore, but we are. We miss him so much.