Grieving My Cat: Finding Peace After Loss

My cat died tonight. She was 16 or 17 yrs old….i had her before I had my daughter….its surreal when it happens but it’s something you mentally acknowledge when one makes the decision to have a pet. You are going to out live them. The last couple of months she really suffered tho. She wasn’t really able to eat much, she had gone completely blind, she couldn’t really get up and down the steps anymore…she looked….bad… She was a really kool cat…she had these huge front paws bc she had extra toes on them and you always knew when she walked into a room if it had carpeting bc one of the claws on her extra toes wasnt retractable so it would always catch a little when she wanted on carpets. I am really going to miss her but I am grateful she’s not suffering anymore…. Thank you for sharing you life and love with me Mina….i will miss you and I will always love u…

@scottieshottie0729 🫂🖤 im grateful she isn't suffering anymore too

@scottieshottie0729 I'm sorry about Mina. Losing a pet is very difficult but you will carry the love forever.

@scottieshottie0729 losing a pet is one of the hardest moments in life. I’m sorry for your loss. That feeling you have when you think about an animal suffering? Pay attention to that feeling. That’s true empathy and it’s beautiful. Not everyone has that. We have so much to learn from animals. They live in the moment, grounded in their environment. They definitely experience the purest and highest forms of love. Always remember your kitty and cherish that sweet bond. That is the closest you’ll get to Truth, the most beautiful thing in the universe.

@wavypurple thank you so much for your insight. This may sound a little strange but it’s something I needed and I can’t even begin to tell you how much I treasure it. My journey to enlightenment or “waking up” or “over coming the Akrat” is just in its infancy. Your response is like educational material that I’m absolutely desperate for!! lol there are def times when I worry I may be a little to empathetic though…lol…for example, I’m not sure where you’re located but where I’m live, I’m the summer time, we always get those tiny little ants in our kitchen!! lol I can’t even bring myself to buy ant traps or things of that nature bc I FEEL SO BAD FOR THE DANG ANTS!!! lol like they’re just doing what they do…they don’t know that they’re considered a pest or an annoyance. If anything, I try to follow the ant line until I can see exactly where they are coming from. Then I wait for them to be done and where they are gone, I plug up the hole so that they can no longer use it as an access point to my kitchen. Inevitably, they end up finding another way in, but…lol…I donno I just can’t bring myself to kill then. Omg, another one is when I’m in the grocery store and I happen to walk through the seafood section and see those poor lobsters just stuck waiting to die in that lobster tank. It’s made me cry real actual tears at times…lol…I guess maybe this is why I wanted to be a vet when I was young…lol. Do you think that’s thing? Is it possible to be too empathetic?