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I got cheetah in 2005, just a few months before my 5th birthday. In 2020, I had to say goodbye to my best friend on August 12th. She kept me going through tough times, and oftentimes was my only friend. It’s been a year since she had to be put to sleep, and I still miss her terribly.
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Fixed year. 2005, not 2006.
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So, uh... this kinda blew up. Feels weird, but I’m happy my little diva is getting all the attention she could dream of. I dunno if I’ll be able to reply to all the comments, but know I’m reading each one! Thank you all for the kind words, it’s made this day much more bearable for me. Here are some more pictures of Cheetah, to celebrate her healthier and happier days <3
i've had my girl since i was 8. i'm 28 now. i am so scared to lose her :-( she's my best friend, my baby, my everything. i kinda know how you're feeling because i keep trying to prepare myself for it, it's just so awful. she looked like such a sweet baby ❤️ i'm so sorry you lost her.
I’ll admit after my girl was diagnosed with kidney disease at 18.5 years old, I started taking a lot more photos of her and the occasional video of her purring/ lightly snoring. I finally had to put her to sleep when she was 21 and am grateful I took all the extra photos/ videos. Enjoy everyday with her you can and give extra scritches and cuddles.
i had to put mine down last december, i still cry whenever my photo gallery decides to show one of thousands of pictures i have of her. Life just hasnt been the same. i hope yours keeps going strong for a few more years.
she is doing so well despite her age ❤️ my vet says she looks 10, not 20. but she def looks 20 haha. she's got a heated cat bed, treats whenever she wants, snuggles all might long, morning rubs. have some scares here and there and struggling to tame her arthritis, but otherwise going strong. i just know it won't last forever. i keep telling her we can talk about her dying on her 25th birthday hahaha. (which is what i told her years about her 20th. had to move the goal post)
edit: also, so sorry for your loss as well. i take so many seemingly pointless pictures and videos. sometimes i can't even bring myself to delete the terribly dark, blurry ones lol.
i had her mother! my dad will not spay/neuter his animals, and i was a child soooo yeah. her mom had two litters and she was from the second one. gave her away and the lady brought her back so we decided it was meant to be! seems to be the case! my other girl is her neice and is going on 16, so i think good genetics as well.
That’s amazing! I’ve only seen a cat make it to 13 of my own. We got unlucky a lot and lots had health complications. I finally found a kitten about 3 years ago and was absolutely bed ridden. Had all the worst. Ear mites, Respiratory and eye infection. Vet figured he would die from how sick he was. Now, he’s this massive cat and healthy as an ox! And not even fat massive. Just like huge. But well done finding a bloodline of cats who live so long!
i'm so sorry about your bad luck! we have been having them with other cats (my dad's) but thankfully not mine. really just both my girls had to have surgery due to pyometra (infected uterus/reproductive organs) but other than that, totally good. although i did have a kidney/urinary scare with my 20yo a few months ago. turns out she's anemic but doesn't require anything for it. i am the kind of owner to take them in if i have a bad feeling. i will gladly spend $500 for peace of mind.
i wish you luck with your hearty boy! i also have one, such a natural chonker but has the teeniest meow. so instead he snorts when he talks. i love him so much
Thank you and yes! He’s a big boy, but has this tiny cute meow. The best! And that’s some good gut feeling there! I just keep an eye on him all the time to make sure no sickness comes back, but so far no issues once being cured :)
My puppy is starting to slow down and her age is starting to show. She’s been apart of my life since I was 9 and I don’t know how I could live without her.
I totally understand. My cat is 22. We got him when I was like 1 and a half. I don’t remember life without him. He’s been having some issues recently and I think about it every day.
My cat Sam is almost 18. I’ve had him since I was pregnant with my oldest son and I know he has many more days behind him then he does in front of him and I’m not ready. He is my best kitty I love him to pieces. I don’t think we can prepare ourselves for what we know is coming I think we just spend as much time as we can loving them and being with them and just soaking in all their old kitty sweetness 💗
I lost my over 20 year old girl. My only advice is to please be there with her as much as possible, when the end comes. Hopefully it doesn’t have to be that kind of end, but if it does, please be with her. I wasn’t with mine at the very end. I had sent her to live with my parents, and I was only a 5 hour flight away, but I didn’t take it. I can’t even express my regret and how much I failed her. There’s so much I would do over if I had the chance. She stopped eating at the end…what if I had been there? I would give her all the treats even when she refused to eat her other food. I would take all the time to hand feed her when she only would eat her food out of my hand and not her bowl. I would give her all the ham she wanted. All the things I didn’t appreciate or understand until it was too late. I lost her in 2013, and I still think about her all the time.
I feel what you’re going through 100000%. I had my boy Simba for 19 great years. From when I was 4 till 23. It’s been 6 years and I still miss him. It was so hard to say goodbye, but I’m glad I was able to be with him when he passed. Time heals all wounds OP.
It doesn’t. It never does. Even the missing is only as far away as the thought of them; of your eye moving over their picture. I still miss cats I lost over 30 years ago.
For me, it took a good 2 - 3 years between most (sometimes more) and after that I've been okay. But if I see too many pictures or think too much about them, I definitely get hit with some sadness. However, usually I don't cry anymore. Hopefully this helps you. You might need to put away some photos to help your healing process. Sometimes therapy helps too..
I like to say that that the absolutely last thing our furry friends and family EVER, ever, ever want is for us to be sad, and they definitely wouldn't want us to cry without them being able to be their to cuddle up with us and make us feel better. And any animal would want you to fill the hole in your heart with love for a rescue boy or girl who desperately needs it. Any animal lover has a heart overflowing with empathy and compassion, and our animals don't want it to go to waste.
I remember when I turned 18, my parents decided to move out of the house I grew up in and into a condo. The condo wasn't pet friendly and my parents decided to give up our 3 cats that I grew up with to a farm for other surrendered animals.
It's been nearly 10 years and I wonder every day what happened to those animals that I loved. Cujo, Daisy, and Molly. I loved them all so much. Part of me deep inside is hoping they are okay and are living a good life. Another part of me knows that it's been long enough that they can't be alive any more. I'll never know though and the lack of closure pains me so much to this day.
Losing the animal you grew up with and loved dearly is so fucking hard.
If they went to a farm with other surrendered animals, chances are, they lived long and happy lives with the rest of the other animals! Sorry you had to go through that.
Watched an episode of Hoarders where a woman had her kids and pets taken away. When they took the kids she was upset. But when they took her pets she became hysterical. The social workers asked why she was being so emotional about pets but not the kids. Her answer killed me "I know where my kids are going and that theyll be back. If they take my pets Ill never see them again. I wont know what became of them or if they well or if theyre fed."
Oh, that’s horrible... I’m so sorry you had to go through that. If it helps, I’ve visited farms with surrendered animals... they’re all loved dearly, and had fun exploring the fields. I’m sure your furbabies had the same life, even if they missed you.
Do you remember the name of the farm? Or where it was? I’d be happy to try and find something on the 3 kitties, to maybe bring some closure. I can’t even imagine how that must’ve felt...
Says something about your parents also. You don't abandon animals because YOU made a decision to move somewhere where they can't go. They didn't value those cats.
People like that shouldn't be in the care of anything living.
My parents had 2 cats and I had 2, and a dog, all around the same age. My aunt also had 3 German Shepherds, same age.
It's incredible how biology dictates when it's your time to go. One day they're fine, the next you start seeing rapid changes in behavior.
It was like a depressing domino effect, one cat passed away, then a few months later so did the other one, then my dog before his 13th birthday, and my aunt's Shepherds too.
I am left with two adorable cats, one of them is named Hope who I adopted when she couldn't live with her previous owner. She loves to talk and receive pets, she even likes to lift your hand with her nose to let you know not to stop. She also says Hello in her meow voice when you say hello.
Unfortunately, she may have lymphoma. She has lost a lot of weight, and we are deciding when in the next couple of weeks is the appropriate time for her to go, before she starts suffering....
Tibby will be the last surviving pet against time that I raised since I was a young man. But I guarantee they each are about to receive an immeasurable amount of hugs and head scratches when I get home.
Oh... saying goodbye to so many so fast sounds horrific. I’m sorry for your losses. It sounds like they all had a super loving family, and I’m sure they enjoyed their time with you!
I hope that Hope is doing okay, all things considered... but she’ll tell you when it’s time for her to go. Give her some head pats from me, will you? She sounds like a special lady. And may Tibby live a long, healthy life just like those before him/her <3
Yeah, I had mine when I was 8, and lost her when I was 27. So she had a long life, but I’m 41 now and I still miss her sometimes. You’d think it would just sort of slip away eventually, and it does a bit, but every now and then I have a dream where she’s back, or I hear a noise in the house and for half a second I think it’s her about to enter the room before I remember.
It just sort of gets ingrained in childhood in a way it doesn’t when you’re an adult.
I've went through that twice (one died alot earlier than the other, but both were present from birth and the same age. Both died of old age, but the one who survived longer lived abnormally long for a cat, into his hundred tens in cat years). Luckily my sense of empathy barely exists, but I can imagine how much it would've hurt if I had one that's as strong as most people.
Don't worry though, they were very well loved. The one who lived longer even used to sleep on my bed in the sunshine when I went to school every day, always on the same blanket, which I still own, and which he was on when we took him to be put down instead of slowly painfully dying of organ failure. I love that blanket, because its special now. I remember in the night, he would check on each family members rooms and if he slept over where your head was, that means he had a deep connection with you. He only ever did that with my mom, and one time with me. I don't remember what he looked like, and it has only been a few years. Granted when the first one died I forgot what she looked like, other than being mostly gray, and the one with more weight.
I have two new cats now, and have for a few years. They'll likely be more easy to remember the appearances of, and I think that since I can still remember them as kittens (I have few memories of when I was a toddler so I don't remember the first twos younger years), I'll have more empathy towards them. Plus they're indoor cats and are more social and active.
Sorry for the rant. I have ADHD and I kinda got lost in thought. Point is that if I could feel sorry for OPs and any others in this threads loss, I would. I can however sincerely wish those people a pleasant future, since that requires no emotional stimuli on my end. In other words, in order to make all of you feel better, I support you. I have no real reason to do this, so while the lack of emotion could be seen as making this worthless, note I could've easily not done this, and instead took my time to do so for no reason that I can determine. I wish y'all well.
My sincerest condolences on your loss. My heartfelt congratulations on having such a lovely relationship for all of her life. I may be crazy but I don’t believe they really leave us completely. I lost my 16 year old in January 2021.
Ok I’m with you here. Lost one of my cats last year and I swear I occasionally catch a flash of him out of the corner of my eye.
This is so funny to read this right now because the other cat was meowing a little while ago and I heard a second meow…which sounded like his voice. Trippy!
My husband and I lost our first “baby” in 2018, a month before I was to give birth to our 2nd child. Shaggz (named after shaggy 2 dope-husband was a juggalo lol) was my husband’s best friend that he had from 16-32. I came around when Shaggz was 2, so he was a mere tot. He was just as much mine as he was his. Our first son grew up with him. We had hoped our 2nd child would have the honor of meeting him too, but at 16 years old, he developed a very painful tumor that progressed quickly & we had to say our goodbyes. My 2 sons now have 2 kitten s who just celebrated their first birthday with us, that we adopted at 8 weeks old..also brothers :) we hope our kids will love these guys until they too cross the rainbow bridge.
My cat died three months ago. It's like it got easier and then it got hard again.
Last night I dreamt about him. Within the dream, I even realized it was a dream because I knew he was dead, so when he got out of the house, I didn't worry about it. Then I woke up crying.
I'm so sorry that you lost your sweet fur baby but I am thankful that you two had so many happy years together. You obviously loved her so much. Thanks for taking great care of her.
I know what you mean when you say that sometimes she was your only friend. I'm an extreme introvert and my family and cats are pretty much my only friends but I'm totally okay with that.
Wow. I got my first kitten (Mickey) at 5 and he lived to be about 15 as well. He had to be put to sleep due to his deteriorating condition with kidney disease. I stayed with him. I miss him all the time. I’m sure she knew how much love you had for her!
Shit. This just hit me in the feels. You know, as little humans growing up, we probably don't appreciate our little animal friends like we should. This picture just reminded me of my dog, we were best mates. I took him all over growing up. Weekends, we would walk for miles. Just chilling. One day, he got out, which he never did, even if the gate was open. I never saw him again. He was an old dude by that point. Looking back, I think he knew his time was up and he wanted to hit the road one last time and maybe ( I hope, pick up a pooch!) Remember the good times. Cherish every memory, they are yours forever.
I'm so sorry. Even if it wasn't just "recently", it still hurts a lot to lose a friend like that. We had to make that decision for one of ours in 2020, and I also marked the date this year. We miss her regardless, but especially on the anniversary. We never get enough time with them, but at least we can cherish their memories and pictures.
I found these helpful afterwards, I hope maybe they can bring you some comfort too. Rest easy, cute little Cheetah.
Sobbing like a baby, but in a good way. Those poems were quite lovely, and help to put things in perspective for me... definitely going to save them for days like today.
I’m sorry you also lost your furry friend, and I hope you’re doing okay... it sounds like they were loved and treasured <3
Thank you. Merry was so gentle and sweet, even if very timid, and umm, not the cleverest :) Thankfully we still have her sister Pippin, who now gets extra love and cuddles. And who is also an awesome kitty.
I hope you can get another furry friend to love, if you decide that's what you want to do.
I just think of the pain and suffering they were going through of old age and it makes me feel better. I understand how you feel though had my cat with me since I was born straight to 21 years of age. He was literally a brother to me but it's been a long while now. I know he's in a better place.
Funny, I also thought of my cat as a sibling... it’s kind of strange how humans bond with animals, but I’m not going to complain. As for the focusing on the pain and suffering... yeah. I have to remind myself that she would’ve had a way worse time if I didn’t make the call to put her to rest...
I’m sorry you lost your brother after 21 long and love-filled years... he was lucky to have a kind family like you <3
I lost my childhood dog of 11 years when she was 16 2 weeks ago. It's really hard, but you will get through this. We're here for you! May Cheetah rest in peace.
I recently lost my two kitties in a breakup and I had no say in it and I am absolutely devastated over it. Not only would it feel like replacing them if I got a pair myself, but I'm not allowed to in my current place nor am I ready to,
even though I'm horribly lonely. I'm going to volunteer I think if I can outside of work just to help out some kitties.
They're really special creatures. People say that they don't have personality like dogs do and they couldnt' be more wrong. I'm sorry for your loss.
Oh... I’m so sorry your kitties were taken from you like that, that’s not right at all :(
And if you get to a place where you can own cats... consider giving it another go. No two cats are the same, and I’m sure your two kitties wouldn’t want you to be lonely. I felt like I was ‘replacing’ Cheetah when I adopted Solar back in 2018, but that feeling quickly left once I realized that he was a different individual, and that I was giving a rescued cat a new lease on life.
Regardless of how the future goes... I hope you feel better soon. I’m so sorry they got taken away... sending you hugs and support <3
Just treasure her while you can. Life is short, and so precious... she sounds like an absolute darling, and I’m glad she found a loving home <3
But please, listen to her. She’ll let you know when it’s time. Don’t try and extend her stay, as much as you might want to. My parents made that mistake for our old dog, and they regret it so very much.
My childhood cat, Kizz, was lost when I turned 24. I adopted her when I was 10 (she was 1 years old). I was a very awkward, nerdy child. That cat was my very best friend, always knew how to manage my moods.
I'm sorry that you lost your friend. I know how hard that hits. Know that she loved you, and that you made her life better. ❤
My kitty is 18 and I’m likely gonna have to put him down sometime within the coming week. Vet says there’s nothing more that can be done. It’s so hard to do. I know it has to be but it’s gonna suck.
You can do this. It’s going to suck, but please be there for your buddy if possible. There will come a day when you can remember all the fun you had with him, all the love you shared, all the trust he put in you. There will come a day when looking at his photos won’t make you cry.
Grieve as you need to, and just hang in there. The pain will fade a bit with time, allowing you to enjoy all the good times you shared with him!
If you want to chat about it, feel free to message me... you have at least one person ready to listen to you <3
You are a good human being! Looking at those pictures I can tell you raised her with so much love and care! I’m gonna go to the pet store Friday and get my cat a bunch of toys when I get paid this week. I have a 3 year old and I just hope he makes it to at least 15-17 years old! Your cat was beautiful! Rip to a queen!
Thanks I have been on this thread since 7 pm! I have cried at least 3 times. My cat ironically has been on the couch all this time and been really playful. I think he saw me crying and realized something was wrong and decided to give me company. He’s 3 and I got him a month ago. My first cat in 20 years. I’m 27 and I can’t seem to get off this thread nor stop myself from crying.
I played with him for three hrs and combed him and gave him a lot of pets. He’s sleeping on his favorite chair. Tomorrow my parents are gonna come see him for the first time and I know he’s gonna be scared but it’s important for them to meet him. I’m gonna give hime some wet good before I got to bed. I hope your cat solar is giving you lots love and cuddles! Cheers cat friend!
Aw, cheers! I hope tomorrow goes well with the visit. Give him some time, he’ll warm up to them no doubt.
And thank you, he is! He’s not nearly as cuddly as Cheetah was, but he sleeps in my bed and that’s close enough for me. He shows his love differently, but that’s absolutely fine <3
I’m sorry you recently faced the same thing... it gets easier, sure, but it never goes away. Better to have loved and lost, than never loved at all <3
I hope you feel better soon! It sounds like Daisy had a great life with you
You gave Cheetah such an amazingly wonderful life. In that last pic I can see just how happy and content she is with you there, even in her final hours. She knew she was loved and cared for. People like you keep a little hope still alive in this world.
Sadly, the price to pay for the blessing of growing up with a pet is the sadness of the day they leave this physical world... But I'm sure her spirit will always be by your side.
My grandma's cat was born I think on 2003 or 2004, I was little and can't quite remember and my grandmom passed on 2017 so I can't ask her the exact date of our cat's birthday. She's still with us and I dread the day she catches up with my grandmom, but I cherish every time that I can go visit her. She's the daughter of another cat my grandma had that loved us and was super affectionate towards us, so even before she was born, we loved her.
This made me tear up. I got my first cat at the age of 10 and lost her at the age of 31. She was my best friend in the whole world and had been with me through every major life event, every heartache, every joyful moment. Like you, sometimes she was my only friend. She lived with me at my first apartment in a new city, then moved back to my hometown with me into our first house. It felt like I lost so much more than a cat, because we spent so many life-forming years together. I feel your pain. It’s been 5 years now since I lost her and I still miss her everyday. At least we were lucky enough to have them in our lives for a short while.
I'm so sorry for the loss of your friend but relieved you were able to be with her in her final moments. No doubt you gave her the same comfort she gave you. I know it's not much but hugs from this random internet stranger
She knew only love her whole life. Our final duty to our buddies is to be with them at the end. It’s so hard, but she knew you loved her and didn’t want her to be in pain.
Had to put my 18.5-old buddy down three days before Christmas. I was heartbroken and so was our little girl. I told her that the best thing we can do is take the love we had for our boy and find another kitty that needed a loving home. We ended up with two. Lol. Wishing you happy memories and peaceful thoughts.
Funny how cats seem to multiply as the years go on, hah. I’m glad your family gave some cute kitties a new lease on life. My condolences for your buddy, though... wishing you and your family the best <3
I feel your lost. When I was a month old, my mom rescued a kitten, she was my sister for my childhood. When my parents fighted and left me in the dark, she was there, always there. In my Asian culture, there is a belief. That, cats and dogs are our families in our previous life. They come, stay along side when we go through the tough time. Then when our lofe is getting better, they don’t need to worry about us, then they leave for their next destination.
My partner says of pets, "We can't give them a long life. But we can give them a good one."
I'm so very sorry for your loss.
Sending you lots of love ❤
I am sorry for your loss. I just lost my childhood kitty a couple weeks ago. She lived at my parents house and I had not seen her in a couple months. I am heading home next week. She was 20, but I was really sad that she didn't make it for me to see her one last time.
I'll be getting her and my other childhood cat's pawprints tattooed on me this fall.
Omg we got our cat in 2006 and her name is cheetah too. This post hit a little different. My cat is definitely getting old and my family expects her to pass within a year. Know that there is a cheetah here that's still getting all the love and chin scratches
Awww, she's such a cutie! I know how hard it is to lose a pet. I remember every dog and cat I've had growing up, sometimes I have dreams where they just randomly come back home. I like to think of it as their spirits coming to check up on me 😺
I Hope this poem helps with the pain of losing a loved cat: I will lend to you for awhile a kitten, God said.
For you to love while he lives, and mourn when he's dead.
Maybe for twelve or fourteen years, or maybe two or three.
But will you, 'till I call him back, take care of him for me?
He'll bring his charms to gladden you and, should his stay be brief
You'll always have his memories as solace for your grief.
I cannot promise he will stay, since all from earth return.
But there are lessons taught below I want this kitten to learn.
I've looked the whole world over in search of teachers true.
And from the folk that crowds life's land I have chosen you.
Now will you give him all your love, nor think the labor vain?
Nor hate me when I come to take my kitten home again?
I fancied that I heard them say 'Dear Lord Thy Will Be Done'
For all the joys this kitten brings the risk of grief we'll run.
We'll shelter him with tenderness, we'll love him while we may.
And for the happiness we've known, forever grateful stay.
But should you call him back much sooner than we planned,
We'll brave the bitter grief that comes, and try to understand.
If, by our love we've managed your wishes to achieve,
Then in memory of him whom we loved, please help us while we grieve.
When our cherished kitten departs this world of strife,
Please send yet another needing soul for us to love all his life.
I said goodbye to my Midnight on 8/17/2018. I adopted her in 2002. I still visit her resting spot, and mention her to Fuzzle....my current kitty. She taught HIM the ropes; haha.
I just had to do this with my cat, got her in 2006, had to take her on Saturday.
Once the sedative was working she was slow blinking at me as she went to sleep 🥲 this was after she tried to crawl back to her basket to come home with me.
It sucks so much.
Glad you had somebody with you. I couldn't string a sentence together so I couldn't ask anyone to take me.
It's just different cultures. I find it cruel to let an animal suffer end of life. But I find it equally cruel to make humans do the same. Suffering to me is not living. But, that's my background and my culture. I'm not religious by any means either. It's okay that OP did what they did because that's what they felt was best for their cat. And if you chose to do differently, that's okay too.
There is a massive difference between letting an animal live comfortably into old age, and putting down a suffering pet. Leg/walking and skin and continence issues are absolutely not things you'd put an animal down for. Those are things western pet owners help their pets through too. You're not special for doing that- everyone I've ever known has cared for their elderly pets to the end like that.
The difference is that after a certain point, some literally don't have a quality of life that is worth living. Animals can't understand why they're in horrible pain 24/7, they just suffer and hurt. If there's nothing that can be done medically to help or save them, euthanasia is so much more kind than letting your pet wither away to nothing in constant pain.
Pets have no concept of mortality or lifespan. A few extra weeks of them suffering in pain doesn't add quality to their life. I struggle to think of something more cruel than willfully, knowingly, and purposefully letting your innocent confused pet suffer, just for your own selfish desires.
Also, I'm pretty sure you're just dead wrong about this not happening in ""Asian countries""(as if that isn't insanely vague...). I can find plenty of people from Korea talking about getting their pets euthanized on forums and such. Maybe it's not as common or widespread, but saving your family member from unneeded suffering is a universal desire.
PS, extra huge Fuck You for choosing to bring this up in response to a grieving owner. Go on /r/unpopularopinion or something if you want to spout this ignorant shit, don't make grieving owners feel horrible just because you don't understand shit.
Exactly. My last cat went through $30k of tests, meds, and hospital stays. She went from 5kg to 2.5kg. She was wasting away. The only reason I would have kept her alive was for me, and I am not that selfish. Putting her down was the kind thing to do for her to stop being in constant pain (and constantly starving, since her body wasn't able to to pull the nutrition from her food).
I feel so bad for your dog. My parents tried to keep their elderly dog alive, and regretted it so fucking much. Seeing the poor guy dying, his insides being eaten alive by cancer despite my parents trying to get him treatment... he died en route to the vet’s office, alone in the back of the car, in pain struggling to even breath.
My parents regret it so fucking much. It was awful to watch him deteriorate to the point of no return, needlessly suffering so the family could have two extra months with him.
I was with my cat, and she was suffering due to her cancer. I made the call to prevent her from dying in agony, falling apart at the seams, starving and struggling to breathe. I don’t regret it for a damn second, because I’ve seen what ‘not putting an animal to sleep’ fucking does.
I hope you never, ever own another pet in your life. You’d be fine keeping a dying animal alive just so you can have the ‘moral high ground’? Fuck you.
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u/serafina_flies Aug 12 '21 edited Aug 12 '21
Info: I got cheetah in 2005, just a few months before my 5th birthday. In 2020, I had to say goodbye to my best friend on August 12th. She kept me going through tough times, and oftentimes was my only friend. It’s been a year since she had to be put to sleep, and I still miss her terribly.
Edit: Fixed year. 2005, not 2006.
Edit 2: So, uh... this kinda blew up. Feels weird, but I’m happy my little diva is getting all the attention she could dream of. I dunno if I’ll be able to reply to all the comments, but know I’m reading each one! Thank you all for the kind words, it’s made this day much more bearable for me. Here are some more pictures of Cheetah, to celebrate her healthier and happier days <3