My cat was put to sleep just under a week ago so why...............................................

[Sparkler1]

I have never posted in this topic before but am curious.
My beautiful little cat had to be put to sleep last Friday. It all happened very suddenly.
I keep thinking I'm going mad - I keep hearing meaowing in the house and there is no way another cat will have got in.
When I mentioned it to DH he told me that he hurd a thump on the floor a couple of days ago. She used to jump off the bed or the windowsill onto the bedroom floor and would make a thumping noise as she did this.
Are we going mad? Is it just habit? Or is there something more to this than we think?
I'd be really interested to hear what people think.

Habit? You are so used to hearing these noises that you now hear them anyway.

When dh worked away in France, I often thought I could feel in him bed or I thought I could hear him get up for work in the mornings. Of course I couldn't because he wasn't there, but I was so used to these things that my brain made me feel and hear them anyway.

Sorry about your cat though.

It's strange isn't it?

I "see" cats when I an away from home - y'know - out of the corner of my eye - in hotels and other people's houses. We have two and they are 10 - so I am just SO used to them being around I think.

So maybe it is habit and expectation - I don't know really - don't know much about the afterlife of cats - but not beyond realms of possibility that your cat is still with you !!!

Have you read "Goodbye Mog" - Mog hangs around for a while to make sure the family is OK without her - and then when they get a kitten she helps teach it how to behave - then she goes when the kitten has settled in.

Condolences anyway - I dread losing my two even though they are naughty PITAs !

Haven't read that book - will try and hunt it down next trip to library.

Oh do - but it will make you cry I promise !

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Sorry to hear about your cat sparkler[hugs]

Sorry to hear about your car sparkler, but I have a similar story. We had our 2 cats adopted when we left England, and I still hear them,over a year alter. Or if I hear a noise in a different room I automatically think it's one of them. The difference is that now I don't get upset, in fact it's nice to think of them now and again

I recently had to put my dog to sleep. A friend told me of her experiences of hearing her deceased dog and smelling her presence in the room.
Sorry about your cat.

I have just ordered that Mog book for my kids. They haven't lost a pet sincethe rabbit had to be put to sleep last Sept but it's still a lovely book. We have a collection of Special Books that they know they have to be Extra Careful with

Sorry to hear about your cat. When dh was a teenager he had 2 mice in a cage in his bedroom. Shortly after they died he claims he used to be woken up in the night by the sound of their exercise wheel squeaking. Personally I think he was dreaming, but he swears he heard them.

I lost my cat a year ago, he had cancer, i nursed him through it, as we could not operate. I kept a close eye on him as i did not want him to suffer, It took me three attemps to go to the vet to put him to sleep over two weeks, (i was at this point 8mnths Pregnant) the first time i cried all morning and my cat TJ just sat in my arms, i ended up calling the vet an cancelling, as i did a few days later (2nd time) then the third time, when i got up in the morning TJ came to me in the morning, gave me my morning cuddle, then went and sat at the door beside his carrier, I knew then he was ready he had had enough and was really unwell, still in tears we took him to the vets, I had said all along i would just hand him over, but something came over me that morning and i sat with him in my arms his head resting on my shoulder and then they gave him the injection. He went to sleep peacefully, it was a heart wrenching time but holding him made it better somehow. I think they all though i was going to go into labour, with being so upset. I still hear him around the house and at night i still think he is there cuddling into me in the bed, my son loves Cats he always looks at TJ picture and goes pusspuss...He is always around us....Our Guardian Cat Angel....

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Oh Kitty - such a lovely story but so sad.

No, you're not mad. After one of my cats died years back I swear I could feel it curled up on the bed near my feet at night.

kitty that is lovely

sparkler there is evidence to support the fact that it isn't just people who come back to visit from the afterlife and for those who demand it i haven't got it - all i can offer is what i've experienced since i was 7 and saw my grandad who had passed 2 years previously. i frequently see animals and feel cats round my ankles and it's a lovely feeling. dd is also sensitive liek me and will often say "nanny!"

My precious cat who died when I was a teenager often visited me after he died. I would feel him jump onto the bed and then do that funny padding around to get comfy thing before he settled right next to my head on my pillow. Years later I saw a medium and she described my cat to me then, he had come to visit again. I believe!

i had lovely dreams about my beloved dog when he was put to sleep at the age of 14 [i was 15]
Very positive, healing dreams. I still dream about him occasionally. I think it is just the mind's way of`coping with bereavement, but whatever the experiences are it doesn't detract from their value.