Cancer. We've been talking about it for a few months, I've been making ghost jokes about it...
But when talking my daughter's cat to the vet, it wasn't what I was expecting to hear...
Let me explain...
We moved to our current house in 1998, with a dog and a cat that we'd had. Our next door neighbor warned us of something that was partial to cats, and we started keeping Zippy, who had adopted us in Gorham, inside at night...
But that didn't stop Zippy from trying to cross the road when we let him out in the morning. A driver on his or her way to work ran him down...and we gave a friend's two kittens a place to live until they met the same fate. (Or at least we assume they did. Precious went out and never came back, so I assume that's what happened.)
Toby, the spaniel-type dog, who had odd fits of rage over small things, seemed to relax a bit when we adopted a collie/husky who was an "oops baby". (His mother wasn't supposed to have puppies because of an accident when she was young and his dad was a late neuter. Oops! Babies!) Bear was a little shy around humans, but he had the dog vs dog thing down pat. That is, until Toby went nuts on a neighbors kid and attacked him. We held him for ten days, as the law says we must, and then put him to sleep.
So, we had Bear and, briefly, the kittens...
And then we just had Bear...
When our daughter was about to turn ten, we decided to try one more cat - an inside one. We got a Maine Coon, hoping he would prove to be like Avatar, who lasted through 17 years...
But it wasn't to be so. Bear developed a tumor on his side. It was some sort of cancer they had never seen before. Tiger developed lymphoma. They passed within two months of each other, the cat in May and the dog in July. Bear was twelve and looked like Lassie. Tiger was nine and was the typical Maine Coon.
My daughter, in the meantime, adopted a dog in New York, a Shih Tzu/Pomeranean "oops baby" (he lives here.) One of the boyfriends adopted Meeko, who's lived here off and on....
And this time, it's me and Meeko, only five years old, who have cancers....
Why do I hear the theme song for "The Twilight Zone"?
But when talking my daughter's cat to the vet, it wasn't what I was expecting to hear...
Let me explain...
We moved to our current house in 1998, with a dog and a cat that we'd had. Our next door neighbor warned us of something that was partial to cats, and we started keeping Zippy, who had adopted us in Gorham, inside at night...
But that didn't stop Zippy from trying to cross the road when we let him out in the morning. A driver on his or her way to work ran him down...and we gave a friend's two kittens a place to live until they met the same fate. (Or at least we assume they did. Precious went out and never came back, so I assume that's what happened.)
Toby, the spaniel-type dog, who had odd fits of rage over small things, seemed to relax a bit when we adopted a collie/husky who was an "oops baby". (His mother wasn't supposed to have puppies because of an accident when she was young and his dad was a late neuter. Oops! Babies!) Bear was a little shy around humans, but he had the dog vs dog thing down pat. That is, until Toby went nuts on a neighbors kid and attacked him. We held him for ten days, as the law says we must, and then put him to sleep.
So, we had Bear and, briefly, the kittens...
And then we just had Bear...
When our daughter was about to turn ten, we decided to try one more cat - an inside one. We got a Maine Coon, hoping he would prove to be like Avatar, who lasted through 17 years...
But it wasn't to be so. Bear developed a tumor on his side. It was some sort of cancer they had never seen before. Tiger developed lymphoma. They passed within two months of each other, the cat in May and the dog in July. Bear was twelve and looked like Lassie. Tiger was nine and was the typical Maine Coon.
My daughter, in the meantime, adopted a dog in New York, a Shih Tzu/Pomeranean "oops baby" (he lives here.) One of the boyfriends adopted Meeko, who's lived here off and on....
And this time, it's me and Meeko, only five years old, who have cancers....
Why do I hear the theme song for "The Twilight Zone"?
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