For those asking for more pics of Thorne I uploaded a slideshow on Youtube
Requiem for Thorne
The pictures of him coated in white are when he got into the powdered sugar and rolled around in it. He could be very silly at times.
What a lovely memorial to him. Lots of those pics had me smiling. The one with him covered in powdered sugar and the other kitty cleaning him was priceless.
Yeah, the other cat is my wife's cat, Solaris, a semi psychotic, sweet to her only mix breed Ann rescued. She loved Thorne.
Very nice Chris. Looks like you've got quite a collection of pictures! Looks like Solaris really loved Thorne too. Really sweet picture of Solaris Cleaning Thorne.
Loved the slideshow of Thorne...what a wonderful tribute.
My wife and I got a reply from KassleDolls in Rhode Island about a litter that has a seal point male. We will be driving up tomorrow to look at them and see if one fits. They will not be ready until mid December, and I should be ready by then myself. It's getting easier to deal with the loss, I'm not crying all the time now, and a lot of that has to do with the looking for another kitten and talking with you guys.
The drive will be about 4 hours, but I am looking foward to it in a bittersweet way.
Hi chris
just looking at the youtube video the part with him covered in sugar looks like he is going back to his raggie roots..
I am sorry to hear about you loss i send my sympathy to you R.I.P Thorne xxx
(11-18-2008 03:29 PM)clyburn Wrote: [ -> ]I was there when Thorne was born 12 years ago, instead of going to his mother for milk, he came to me and pressed his tiny thorn like claws into my leg looking for milk and earning his name.
Thorne was half Ragdoll, and his presonality matches Ragdoll descriptions to a t.
I have had a few pets over the years, but Thorne was different, I had a bond with him that I have never felt with any other, human or pet and I fear I will never feel that bond again. THorne was there for me through all of my hardships and triumphs, he was there when I met my wife, and there when we were married.
He followed me arround like a shadow, always slept in the crook of my hip at night, and never wanted to leave my lap. He loved belly rubs and rbeing cradled in my arms like a baby, but hated to be kissed on the head.
He always patted my arm to get my attention and looked at me with such love in his eyes, that it always overwhelmed me. He hated to be away from me and if I had to leave for a few days, he would stop eating.
He was my best friend, my shadow, my heart and my warmth.
Yesterday morning I woke up, and he had no strength and was barely breathing. We rushed him to the emergency clinic and the news was not good, they wanted to keep him and run some tests. I kept getting worse and worse news throughout the day as test results came in. In the end his condition was so bad, that they were afraid the shock of the cold ness of an ultrasound would kill him and they could do no more tests without a blood transfusion. Even then they thought that procedure would kill him. He was severely anemic & they thought he had developed some cancer of the blood.
I made the decision with my wife that we needed to let him go. Everyone was pretty sure he wouldn't survive the night, and I didn't want him to pass alone and without me there, he hated being away from me.
I will always miss him, and I feel so alone right now, and have no idea what to do with myself. I have never felt this much sorrow and pain, even when I lost both my grandparents this year.
I don't know why I'm writing this, no one here knows me, but it just feels like the right thing to do.
I miss my baby so much and can't stop crying. How does someone get past this?
I know exactly how you are feeling. I lost my love this past July. They become so much a part of your lives. I'm crying right along with you. You will be in my prayers.
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