1 of the regular visitors of my front garden.

Cheers.

As a kid we had these visitors in our hedge.
So we used to give her milk like this.

Ooh I love porcupines and hedgehogs and kangaroos and wallabies and... *snatch breath* raccoons and...

but when it comes to prickles... give me a hedgehog over a porcupine any day...


Don't worry... the face recovered, not sure about his ego or the confidence to greet the rear end of everything first :)

Lovely pictures :)

erm... I meant the ones posted by everyone else... not my one. WAS going to post a picture of a crested cape porcupine (african relative) but kept getting error messages from my browser so gave up...

Ooh I love porcupines and hedgehogs and kangaroos and wallabies and... *snatch breath* raccoons and...

but when it comes to prickles... give me a hedgehog over a porcupine any day...


Don't worry... the face recovered, not sure about his ego or the confidence to greet the rear end of everything first :)

Lovely pictures :)

erm... I meant the ones posted by everyone else... not my one. WAS going to post a picture of a crested cape porcupine (african relative) but kept getting error messages from my browser so gave up...

Here you go Annie, a cape porcupine...

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Here you go Annie, a cape porcupine...

Awwwwww.... thanks Vic :) very sweet of you :)

edit: I made friends with the front end of one many years ago :)

Very sad day in our household. We had to have a our 12 year old black cat put to sleep at the vets this morning. She'd been having minor fits for s couple of weeks now and last night she had a major seizure lasting 30 seconds I had to restrain her until all the shaking and convulsions had stopped. This morning she was wandering around in circles totally disorientated, falling over, dribbling everywhere. The vets confirmed she had had a massive stroke and there was nothing they could do. The kindest thing was to let her go.

RIP Holly, you were a lovely cat.

:((((((((((

Awwwwwwww :( I'm so sorry Chris. RIP Holly. :(

Very sad day in our household. We had to have a our 12 year old black cat put to sleep at the vets this morning. She'd been having minor fits for s couple of weeks now and last night she had a major seizure lasting 30 seconds I had to restrain her until all the shaking and convulsions had stopped. This morning she was wandering around in circles totally disorientated, falling over, dribbling everywhere. The vets confirmed she had had a massive stroke and there was nothing they could do. The kindest thing was to let her go.

RIP Holly, you were a lovely cat.

Sorry to hear this, Chris. May she rest in peace.

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Very sad day in our household. We had to have a our 12 year old black cat put to sleep at the vets this morning. She'd been having minor fits for s couple of weeks now and last night she had a major seizure lasting 30 seconds I had to restrain her until all the shaking and convulsions had stopped. This morning she was wandering around in circles totally disorientated, falling over, dribbling everywhere. The vets confirmed she had had a massive stroke and there was nothing they could do. The kindest thing was to let her go.

RIP Holly, you were a lovely cat.

:( Sorry for your loss Chris. RIP Holly

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Very sad day in our household. We had to have a our 12 year old black cat put to sleep at the vets this morning. She'd been having minor fits for s couple of weeks now and last night she had a major seizure lasting 30 seconds I had to restrain her until all the shaking and convulsions had stopped. This morning she was wandering around in circles totally disorientated, falling over, dribbling everywhere. The vets confirmed she had had a massive stroke and there was nothing they could do. The kindest thing was to let her go.

RIP Holly, you were a lovely cat.

Yes, time to send her off to the Bridge.
12 years of love and fond memories - a good legacy.
God's comforting Grace to you and yours. Chris.

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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired

Wishing you peace during this time of loss and pain, Chris.

Thanks everyone. Brought her back home, and picked a spot in the garden to put her. I'll do it tomorrow morning when I feel up to it.

We'll be there in spirit Chris. So so sorry :(

What Angela said times a million.

Very sad day in our household. We had to have a our 12 year old black cat put to sleep at the vets this morning. She'd been having minor fits for s couple of weeks now and last night she had a major seizure lasting 30 seconds I had to restrain her until all the shaking and convulsions had stopped. This morning she was wandering around in circles totally disorientated, falling over, dribbling everywhere. The vets confirmed she had had a massive stroke and there was nothing they could do. The kindest thing was to let her go.

RIP Holly, you were a lovely cat.

I'm so sorry, Chris.

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~Sue~

One of the three kittens I've been taking care of turned out to be
deaf, so I found someone to adopt her who could promise me she'd be
well cared for and an indoor-only cat. I still have her two sisters.

You'd think this would reduce my financial burden but, noooo: dumb old
Sue had to go and scoop up four more feral kittens. They're only about
four or five weeks old. Mama cat left them on my front porch. I'm such
a sucker for feral kittens that now even the mama cats know they should
dump their kids at my house! The kittens were on my porch for a few days
before I grabbed them. When the cat I thought was the mama came to my
front porch, a couple of the kittens ran toward her, but she turned around
and ran away. That really surprised me. I know mamas sometimes reject their
kittens, but after four weeks?!

All four have the nasty eye and nose goop. Seems all the kittens born to
this feral colony have the crud. That means another trip to the vet for
antibiotics. Maybe they'll let me get the meds without bringing the kittens
in. That'll save some money. I won't have to pay for an exam.

Oh well. I've decided I hate kittens. I hate them for the strings they have
tied to my heart.

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~Sue~

Very sad day in our household. We had to have a our 12 year old black cat put to sleep at the vets this morning. She'd been having minor fits for s couple of weeks now and last night she had a major seizure lasting 30 seconds I had to restrain her until all the shaking and convulsions had stopped. This morning she was wandering around in circles totally disorientated, falling over, dribbling everywhere. The vets confirmed she had had a massive stroke and there was nothing they could do. The kindest thing was to let her go.

RIP Holly, you were a lovely cat.

(((Hugs))

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Ahoy!

Any sailors here?
Kadetts sailing HMS Gladan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiy6GK_0GEM
Been on that ship. So my father who was a kadett serving on HMS Gladan.
Her sister ship HMS Falken.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe6-MC9QrAQ

Ahoy!

Any sailors here?
Kadetts sailing HMS Gladan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiy6GK_0GEM
Been on that ship. So my father who was a kadett serving on HMS Gladan.
Her sister ship HMS Falken.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe6-MC9QrAQ

While I have been sailing, I would not call myself a sailor...

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Very sad day in our household. We had to have a our 12 year old black cat put to sleep at the vets this morning. She'd been having minor fits for s couple of weeks now and last night she had a major seizure lasting 30 seconds I had to restrain her until all the shaking and convulsions had stopped. This morning she was wandering around in circles totally disorientated, falling over, dribbling everywhere. The vets confirmed she had had a massive stroke and there was nothing they could do. The kindest thing was to let her go.

RIP Holly, you were a lovely cat.

I'm so sorry, Chris.

+1

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Good to see you are still you, it never gets better,
and with time the ability to see the insanity seems
to get clearer.......

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Well, you know me and animals. I was a total blubbering wreck after she slipped away at the vets, and the staff had to let me out the side door with the basket, to avoid going through the waiting room, and it wasn't much different with the burial this morning in the garden. But I did what I have always done for all the cats over the last 30 years here, picked a rose from where she liked to sunbathe and put it with her. I'd like to think she was looking down and appreciated the gesture, but I will never know, it gave me comfort anyway.
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Thank you for all your kind thoughts, it is much appreciated. I just feel I'm getting too old for all this raw emotion, you'd think it would get easier over time, but it doesn't seem to. I would have the guts to give the armed forces an order for combat if I had to, yet I can fall apart at the seams over a cat. A long beer o'clock today :-)

I doubt you are the only one here who has felt that way, Chris. To both give and accept such unconditonal love is one of the things that make us human. No shame in it. Worry when you stop feeling that way about cats and other critters......

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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired

Well, you know me and animals. I was a total blubbering wreck after she slipped away at the vets, and the staff had to let me out the side door with the basket, to avoid going through the waiting room, and it wasn't much different with the burial this morning in the garden. But I did what I have always done for all the cats over the last 30 years here, picked a rose from where she liked to sunbathe and put it with her. I'd like to think she was looking down and appreciated the gesture, but I will never know, it gave me comfort anyway.
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Thank you for all your kind thoughts, it is much appreciated. I just feel I'm getting too old for all this raw emotion, you'd think it would get easier over time, but it doesn't seem to. I would have the guts to give the armed forces an order for combat if I had to, yet I can fall apart at the seams over a cat. A long beer o'clock today :-)

I doubt you are the only one here who has felt that way, Chris. To both give and accept such unconditonal love is one of the things that make us human. No shame in it. Worry when you stop feeling that way about cats and other critters......

Amen to that.

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~Sue~

Well, you know me and animals. I was a total blubbering wreck after she slipped away at the vets, and the staff had to let me out the side door with the basket, to avoid going through the waiting room, and it wasn't much different with the burial this morning in the garden. But I did what I have always done for all the cats over the last 30 years here, picked a rose from where she liked to sunbathe and put it with her. I'd like to think she was looking down and appreciated the gesture, but I will never know, it gave me comfort anyway.
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Thank you for all your kind thoughts, it is much appreciated. I just feel I'm getting too old for all this raw emotion, you'd think it would get easier over time, but it doesn't seem to. I would have the guts to give the armed forces an order for combat if I had to, yet I can fall apart at the seams over a cat. A long beer o'clock today :-)

I doubt you are the only one here who has felt that way, Chris. To both give and accept such unconditonal love is one of the things that make us human. No shame in it. Worry when you stop feeling that way about cats and other critters......

Amen to that.

+10

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