Muses

Do all cats go to heaven?

I’ve been wondering about cats and death this week. We decided to end our Oreo’s suffering on Tuesday.

Oreo. The cat my daughter slept with every night the last eight years. For as long as I can remember she would periodically announce, “When Oreo dies, I’m taking a week off of school, you know.” And there was the time, we almost lost him in the spin cycle.

I’ve read that adoptees often develop intense feelings for animals. Pets filling that bottomless unconditional love tank.

So I was worried about our daughter when it became clear that cancer was so entrenched in Oreo’s neck, he could neither eat or drink without suffering.

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Oreo and Hannie in January before he got so very, very sick.

Tuesday, leaving the vet with Hannie in tears and Oreo at rest, taking one final ride home, I said I’d take care of burying him and go pick out a plant to place over his grave like our vet had suggested.

I decided to bury Oreo by the garden fence and bought a climbing rose which hopefully gravitates to the wire.

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I missed the ornery furry cuss myself and had shed a few tears.

I wondered about our other pets. Our dog and cat, Daisy, must realize something is up?

Daisy had to have known how sick Oreo was — did she wonder why he disappeared?

Yesterday out tilling up my garden plot to plant tomatoes, peppers and squash, I saw this.

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Daisy had been hanging out by me, then I realized she was on top of the spot I buried Oreo.

Yes, there’s the rose bush and the rocks I’d gathered around the new plant, not so much to enshrine the grave but more to keep someone from mowing the rose down. That kind of stuff seems to happen around here.

 

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The rest of the afternoon, Daisy came back to that spot and lounged.

 

 

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I can’t help but wonder if she knows that’s where her buddy is?

Thoughts?

 

Linking up with the Finish the Sentence Friday gang.

Today’s prompt: I wonder  . . .

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