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Jan 11, 2023, 05:07 PM
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Member Since: Jul 2019
Location: Downtown Vibes, California
Posts: 15,701
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I understand how you feel about your animals so very well @Open Eyes. I share my home and my life with 5 cats. They are family. I have shared my life with cats for the past 25 years. The losses along the way are absolutely devastating and it is shocking to me, how many people - even those who "love animals" - don't comprehend the grief of losing a pet.
One of my cats, Sidney, has diabetes and my life is scheduled around her care. She is an angel on earth and deserves to be treated as such. I have found that if I tell people I "have to be home to test my diabetic cat's glucose, feed her, and give her her insulin" they are not particularly interested, nor are they especially sympathetic. Yet if I say, "I have to be home to give my husband his insulin" - I get all sorts of attentiveness and sympathetic understanding. (I'm referring specifically to making medical appointments - yes, I have learned to lie in order to be given consideration as to the appt. time I need. "Husband" gets the receptionist's attention; "cat" doesn't.)
I'm so sorry you've had such a rough time. It's a blessing that your mother understood so well.
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