Seventeen years ago, Jack followed me up onto my porch and let me know that he lived there now. He has been with us ever since and was a quiet and good natured cat.
Last night he quietly and peacefully slipped into another plane of existence.
The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything.
Posts: 53444 | Location: Texas | Registered: February 10, 2004
Aw Sorry to see this. Jack sounds like he was a neat cat. My condolences on losing your buddy.
I am glad to see he slipped away quietly and peacefully. In our experience they're not often so lucky.
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher
TBH, my condolences. My wife and i have a 15 year-old Shepard who’s likely enjoying her last summer. We’ll cry more than a bit when Tara leaves us and joins her brother, Wolfie.
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Even though we know it is enviable, when the day comes it's heart breaking.
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
-D.H. Lawrence
Posts: 11524 | Location: Fort Worth, Texas | Registered: February 07, 2007
Dang it, jhe. So sorry to hear about Jack. I know you gave him love and a wonderful home for all those years. If you're anything like me with my current two and the two I had before them, you spoiled the crap outta him. My condolences. RIP, Jack.
"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24
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