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Wife's 16 year old cat died while I was at work last week. Son wanted him creamated and wife said that was fine with her. But she did not want a dead cat in the house until I found someone to creamate him so she took him to the vets office for storage until we found a place to process him. They keep him on ice for three days for a nominal fee.

Next day I found a place the would cremate him for a reasonable cost. I wenr to pick up our dead cat, the Vet gave me the wrong dead cat in a sealed "casket box", cardboard which cost $25.00. I dropped it and the cat off to have it cremated . Wife and son wanted ashes to spread out over the spot he loved in the yard. If it makes her happy what the H....

Next day Vet's office called with the news they gave me the wrong cat. Called the crematory and they had started the "burning" 10 minutes ago. So other cat gets burned, its owner is distraught because they wanted to bury the dead cat and our dead cat is still at the Vets office. Only a dead cat could be this much fun.

Vet takes our dead cat over to have it cremated and I guess pick up the ashes of Fluffy, the other cat. Now Fluffy's owner wants to sue the world for her loss and emotional harm. It took half an hour on the phone to get her calmed down. The next day she called back and was laughing at the whole thing. We do get very attached to our dogs and cats and seem to forget that they are not people. They just act better than most people. Who else can have this much fun with a dead cat?

D O eleven. D O ele-e-e-e-even!!

And I was beginning to think I was overtly focused on shotguns and didn't have a life?? This is an eye opener for me!!
Jim

I thought I had heard it all...

Think of what the repercussions would have been a people hospital & funeral home. Anyway, Fluffy & her pal have GONE TO GLORY. I think that there was a chapter in Tom Sawyer about a dead cat or was it Huck Finn?

Good Story.....George

KY could have traded the cat for some free Chinesse dinners.

Where do you guys FIND dead cats? All mine, all my life, just disappear when it comes their time to die. I see them flat on the road sometimes, but that is different, and I've never seen one of MINE on the road. Mine just go off somewhere when the time comes and we never see them again...Geo

Yeh, cats used to be able to mouse, sleep, fight and die on their own dime. Now they'll be getting scans, carrying tiny fanny packs full of pill bottles, and signing up for Mediare D. I have an 18 yr old cat and I respect him for using all nine but three squares and symptomatic relief is about all I'm gonna spring for in his dotage. And he won't be on my mantle when he's gone.

jack

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Before city sewer, water, streets, curbs and all that rot found me here, I had a stray that earned his keep by holding down the mouse population. When he became a regular in the house (winter is tough on a cat, and someone had spent money to declaw and neuter him) I decided to see he got a rabies shot when needed. The vet was somewhat insistant that he get "all his medicine", inspite of my informing her the only disease I was worried about on her list was rabies, for, I thought, obvious reason. "But he NEEDS all his medicines!" I replied "The only medicine over and above a rabies shot he will ever get says 12 gauge on the bottom of it".
He moused around here for almost two decades after that incident, and when his time came (he went from 28 lbs to about 6) his "medicine" said 22 long rifle on it, actually. I "buried" him in a paper grocery store bag in the green can that goes by the curb on Sunday night.
He earned his keep.
Best,
Ted