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revmclaren

(2,613 posts)
Wed Jul 19, 2023, 07:23 PM Jul 2023

Lily cat has passed.

Last edited Thu Jul 20, 2023, 02:09 PM - Edit history (1)

Lily cat passed over the rainbow bridge today at 445 pm. We knew today would be the day since the cancer had become expediently worse over the last week. This morning we made the appointment at her vet. She left us in mine and my daughter's arms.

I am so devastated right now but at least she is out of the pain that she suffered.

I will respond later to any replies. This evening will be for morning.


UPDATED.......

Thank you everyone for your kind words and understanding in this painful time. Bless all of you.





revmclaren

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Lily cat has passed. (Original Post) revmclaren Jul 2023 OP
I'm so sorry, revmclaren. Sending hugs. Rest in peace Lily. skylucy Jul 2023 #1
Holding you and family in my heart... so hard to lose that loving furry presence... n/t TygrBright Jul 2023 #2
My deepest condolences. It is so hard to make the decision to sinkingfeeling Jul 2023 #3
My condolences. 2naSalit Jul 2023 #4
I am sending you and your daughter hugs because there just aren't words to comfort you. MLAA Jul 2023 #5
Even when you know.. Permanut Jul 2023 #6
🕯 blm Jul 2023 #7
I'm so sorry, revmclaren. brer cat Jul 2023 #8
So sorry for your loss montanacowboy Jul 2023 #9
so very sorry Skittles Jul 2023 #10
My deepest condolences to you. RIP sweet Lily.💔 virgdem Jul 2023 #11
Oh so sorry to read this. She will be with you forever, though, japple Jul 2023 #12
I'm so sorry for the loss of Lily Cat. onecaliberal Jul 2023 #13
I am quite sorry to hear this. GreenWave Jul 2023 #14
We can't stop an inevitable death. We can only try to give a good life to our little ones during Karadeniz Jul 2023 #15
''' AllaN01Bear Jul 2023 #16
Lady Bast, please take Your little Lily gently home in Your loving arms, and send peace niyad Jul 2023 #17
I am so so sorry irisblue Jul 2023 #18
Oh, I'm So Very Sorry DarthDem Jul 2023 #19
Deepest sympathy orangecrush Jul 2023 #20
Aw. I am truly sorry and grateful too that she is no longer in pain. LoisB Jul 2023 #21
Sincere condolences, rev majdrfrtim Jul 2023 #22
Sorry for your loss., AltairIV Jul 2023 #23
What a blessing that you were with her as she breathed her last. She was not alone and thatcrowwoman Jul 2023 #24
Here again, this is one of many occurrences that we can all share. calimary Jul 2023 #25
we had to put a cat to sleep also. Afterward, I would feel him every morning, laying along my leg. demigoddess Jul 2023 #26
I'm so sorry. mountain grammy Jul 2023 #27
When faced with this hardest of decisions, in our family... 3catwoman3 Jul 2023 #28
So sorry for your loss, revmclaren pazzyanne Jul 2023 #29
so very sorry kanda Jul 2023 #30
Hugs Duncanpup Jul 2023 #31
I'm so sorry for the loss of Lily. area51 Jul 2023 #32
I am so very sorry...all living things will go but love is forever. Jack-o-Lantern Jul 2023 #33
How beautiful of a poem. Maraya1969 Jul 2023 #36
I feel you. cilla4progress Jul 2023 #34
Oh dear your dear little Lily. I am so sorry. Maraya1969 Jul 2023 #35
So sorry to hear this. It is good she won't suffer another moment, at least. So sorry. Judi Lynn Jul 2023 #37
I am so sorry for this great loss; peacebuzzard Jul 2023 #38
My condolences about your devestating loss, revmclaren. Niagara Jul 2023 #39

sinkingfeeling

(52,993 posts)
3. My deepest condolences. It is so hard to make the decision to
Wed Jul 19, 2023, 07:27 PM
Jul 2023

release our furry loves from their pain. Hugs to you.

MLAA

(18,599 posts)
5. I am sending you and your daughter hugs because there just aren't words to comfort you.
Wed Jul 19, 2023, 07:35 PM
Jul 2023

✨🌟⭐️💫Lily Cat💫⭐️🌟✨

Permanut

(6,636 posts)
6. Even when you know..
Wed Jul 19, 2023, 07:39 PM
Jul 2023

It is still so hard to lose these little guys.

You gave her a good life, and if you spoiled her rotten, that makes you officially a good guy.

brer cat

(26,260 posts)
8. I'm so sorry, revmclaren.
Wed Jul 19, 2023, 07:43 PM
Jul 2023

It is hard to let our furbabies go even when we know it is best for them. I hope you and your family will be blessed with peace.

montanacowboy

(6,302 posts)
9. So sorry for your loss
Wed Jul 19, 2023, 07:45 PM
Jul 2023

she is in a better place now and you will see her again. Peace to you and your family.

Skittles

(159,327 posts)
10. so very sorry
Wed Jul 19, 2023, 07:49 PM
Jul 2023

Grieve not
nor speak of me with tears
but laugh and talk of me
as if I were beside you
I loved you so
’twas Heaven here with you

- Isla Paschal Richardson

japple

(10,321 posts)
12. Oh so sorry to read this. She will be with you forever, though,
Wed Jul 19, 2023, 07:49 PM
Jul 2023

just on the other side. She is free from pain and sickness. You gave her a good life and she is grateful to you for helping to release her from her earthly body.

GreenWave

(9,167 posts)
14. I am quite sorry to hear this.
Wed Jul 19, 2023, 07:52 PM
Jul 2023

When my cat passed at age 7 it was a shock. The only time he meowed was when he was in pain the last 24 hours. Since he weighed 25 pounds (healthy not obese) it had quite a beautiful haunting boom. I still miss him and how he always tapped my shoulder before he jumped into my lap.

Karadeniz

(23,417 posts)
15. We can't stop an inevitable death. We can only try to give a good life to our little ones during
Wed Jul 19, 2023, 07:54 PM
Jul 2023

their time with us. I'm sure Lily wouldn't trade a second of her time with you for another ten years.

niyad

(119,909 posts)
17. Lady Bast, please take Your little Lily gently home in Your loving arms, and send peace
Wed Jul 19, 2023, 07:55 PM
Jul 2023

and comfort to her grieving loved ones..

I am so very sorry for the loss of your precious Lily girl. Know that she is in the Summerland, free of pain, loving all of you. I have sent my babies to greet her.

Do not be surprised if you see/hear/feel her as she watches over her belovrd family.

Please be kind and gentle with yourselves in this sad and difficult time.

DarthDem

(5,363 posts)
19. Oh, I'm So Very Sorry
Wed Jul 19, 2023, 07:58 PM
Jul 2023

She was obviously enormously loved. My heart goes out to you for your loss. for Lily.

majdrfrtim

(340 posts)
22. Sincere condolences, rev
Wed Jul 19, 2023, 08:34 PM
Jul 2023

Since every new grief has the potential to reawaken any (or even, every) old grief, please be gentle with yourself.

Un abrazo muy fuerte, as many of my friends say.

AltairIV

(660 posts)
23. Sorry for your loss.,
Wed Jul 19, 2023, 08:43 PM
Jul 2023

So terribly sorry for you loss. It was good of you to be there for her at the end, the love she felt from you both will have made her passing more comfortable. You all are in my thoughts.

thatcrowwoman

(1,230 posts)
24. What a blessing that you were with her as she breathed her last. She was not alone and
Wed Jul 19, 2023, 08:44 PM
Jul 2023

she knows how much you love her. 💞💫🕯️
Sending love and light to you and your daughter, and sweet Shalom, peace be with you.
🕊thatcrowwoman

calimary

(84,319 posts)
25. Here again, this is one of many occurrences that we can all share.
Wed Jul 19, 2023, 08:48 PM
Jul 2023

Empathy is a good thing, because many of us have walked this path and genuinely, and very personally, know exactly how you feel.

So let that wrap around you. It's real and very present. There's been a distressing number of posts, recently, about the loss of a much-loved pet. So there's a LOT of empathy out there to share. Unfortunately, you're the one immediately dealing with it right now. But please don't forget: you don't mourn alone. You don't EVER mourn alone.

demigoddess

(6,675 posts)
26. we had to put a cat to sleep also. Afterward, I would feel him every morning, laying along my leg.
Wed Jul 19, 2023, 08:57 PM
Jul 2023

Just like he did in life. I could feel the weight, warmth, and the purring. Then one morning all of a sudden, he sat up, and then ran across the bed where I felt his brother cat at the door. They went off to heaven together and I know that is how they wanted it to be. I am not fooling, lying or exaggerating. Please believe me.

3catwoman3

(25,440 posts)
28. When faced with this hardest of decisions, in our family...
Wed Jul 19, 2023, 09:07 PM
Jul 2023

…we have chosen to call it liberating the spirit.

May Lily’s spirit run free.

pazzyanne

(6,601 posts)
29. So sorry for your loss, revmclaren
Wed Jul 19, 2023, 09:20 PM
Jul 2023

We only have them for a little while, but they leave paw prints on our hearts. Take care!

Jack-o-Lantern

(1,010 posts)
33. I am so very sorry...all living things will go but love is forever.
Wed Jul 19, 2023, 10:17 PM
Jul 2023

Death is nothing at all
I have only slipped away into the next room
I am I and you are you
Whatever we were to each other
That we are still
Call me by my old familiar name
Speak to me in the easy way you always used
Put no difference into your tone
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow
Laugh as we always laughed
At the little jokes we always enjoyed together
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me
Let my name be ever the household word that it always was
Let it be spoken without effort
Without the ghost of a shadow in it
Life means all that it ever meant
It is the same as it ever was
There is absolute unbroken continuity
What is death but a negligible accident?
Why should I be out of mind
Because I am out of sight?
I am waiting for you for an interval
Somewhere very near
Just around the corner.
All is well.
Nothing is past; nothing is lost
One brief moment and all will be as it was before
How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!
- Henry Scott

Maraya1969

(22,997 posts)
35. Oh dear your dear little Lily. I am so sorry.
Thu Jul 20, 2023, 04:50 PM
Jul 2023


Know that people care. And if you will indulge me one of my spiritual beliefs, "Relationships never die, they just change form.

peacebuzzard

(5,266 posts)
38. I am so sorry for this great loss;
Fri Jul 21, 2023, 08:28 PM
Jul 2023

little Lily cat had a sweet life I am so sorry for the tragic moments endured.
so sorry. so sad ...❤️ lovely life she had with you; Thank you for letting us know.

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