Pet Forum / Miscellaneous / Pet Loss / March 2008

She went into labor Mon. night and had the first kitten at 1:00 am
Tues. morning. At 10:00 am Tues. morning she had the second. After
that things went bad. She tried to birth 2 kittens at once. I managed
to maneuver one around so she could have them easier. Then a stillborn

My life isn't going well.
My mother died in September 2006.
After that, my father was incapacitated. Both his hip sockets were shot,
and needed replacing. I spent the next nine months being his sole

Recently I had to put my cat Spunky down due to Cancer (January) and a
few weeks later my dog Pepper after he had a stroke (February). They
were both a big part of my life for over 10 years and I treated them
better than some humans. They were a part of my family! They have been

Do they know, as we do, that their time must come?
Yes, they know, at rare moments.
No other way can I interpret those pauses of his latter life, when,
propped on his forefeet, he would sit for long minutes quite