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a cat s life a cat s life ullrick 2005 2006 he was a lot more than just a cat sunday october 01 2006 not just a cat my childhood memories of sunday school have become a blur of choruses of jesus loves me not the whitney houston rendition and memorizing the lord s prayer for prizes of candy bars and prayer cards one particular lesson however still sticks with me the topic was heaven we were not at an age where we had serious theological debates but were nonetheless old enough to have some notion of death and the afterlife at least as much as anyone understands such things some precocious child it wasn t me asked if our pets would go to heaven when they died and i remember distinctly what our sunday school teacher said as she tried to answer the question only people go to heaven she said the bible says that animals will return to dust she quickly changed the topic content that we wouldn t question the authority of statements that begin with the bible says i suspect she wasn t expecting that question and she was even less prepared for the discussion that should accompany it the concept of soul the notion of the human soul is problematic enough but what about those of our four legged friends i remember that at the time i couldn t imagine my cat suddenly turning to dust and i also doubted that there could be a heaven that didn t have puppies and kittens i still have the same basic reaction as my eight year old self i don t want to go to any place especially for eternity where my pets wouldn t also be welcome these days i m not religious enough to dwell much on thoughts about eternity but concepts like love and loss birth and death have been at the forefront of my mind this past week since ullrick left me on wednesday i ve been asking myself if i made the most of the short time that i had with him there could have been more walks in the park and more snuggles in the bed but i can t go back and change that now it doesn t help me and it won t bring him back to dwell on such thoughts but it can remind me that i have another cat who needs all of the love i can give her right now and i need all the love that she can give me i ve experienced a whole gambit of emotions sorrow disbelief denial anger shock at times maybe there have even been hints of reconciliation and acceptance but i don t think i m there yet it mostly doesn t seem real monday night he was curled up in his puddy basket with his not so little sister tuesday was an excruciating day at the vet s and wednesday he was gone now it s sunday night and i m still struggling to come to terms with it all i ve spent a large chunk of the last few days curled up in bed with vessa and looking at pictures of ullrick i ve been very lucky this week in that i m surrounded by animal lovers both in real life and online i ve been very touched by the outpouring of thoughts and well wishes i ve received in my inbox mamma mu a swedish friend i met through my personal blog was staying with me this week and was a lifesaver in that she went to the vet s to pick up the empty carrier and pay the bill for me i m not sure i could have handled it myself i ve been thinking a lot about the prevalence of pet bloggers and humans tendency to anthropomorphize their animals it s nothing new the ancient egyptians even deified their felines in the form of the cat goddess bast jokes about lack of opposable thumbs aside there is a human behind every cat and i think it s our way of giving them a voice it s also a way to express our love for them because it taps into a community of animal lovers who care for their pets as much as we do although i miss him dearly i don t regret a single second of the last nine months i spent with ullrick he was still a baby when he came to live with me and i watched him grow into a handsome cat i saw his immediate affection for his little sister when we brought her home and those big green alien eyes always seemed to see right into my soul as if he could read my mind i m glad i could tell when there was something wrong in his little body and despite the sorrow i know that the final decision was the right one i would have figured out how to pay for it if there was a treatment that would have given him a fighting chance but i have to trust that the veterinarian would have given me those options had such existed i know that sometimes people who have never loved or been loved by an animal might have a hard time understanding how you can be so shaken up over the death of a pet it s just a cat they might say but ullrick wasn t just a cat you see he was my cat and i was his person he didn t belong to me we belonged to each other i m counting on the fact that if there is a heaven the souls that belong to each other will be together posted by curiosa sunday october 01 2006 36 comments wednesday september 27 2006 goodbye this morning i said goodbye to ullrick at the vet s office with the knowledge that he might not be coming home i had a feeling that would be the last time that i would see him and a phone call around 4 pm confirmed that feeling he had a lump in his lymph node that was inoperable and untreatable rather than bring him home just so i could spend a few more days with him i made the decision to let him cross the rainbow bridge while he was already asleep to make any other decision would have been unfair to him and i had already said my goodbyes it happened so fast i m still in shock but i know that this was the right decision for him but knowing i made the right decision somehow doesn t make this any easier it s just such a shame that he was such a young and beautiful cat with a full life ahead of him he was my first cat that i had as an adult and he will always hold a special place in my heart vessa and i are hanging in there but time is the only thing that will lessen the pain right now it s a visceral emptiness and i keep thinking about his big green alien eyes we will miss you posted by curiosa wednesday september 27 2006 66 comments tuesday september 26 2006 calling all paws we havn t updated in awhile because things have been crazy with work and life in a foreign country but i now have bad news and i d ask you all to keep us in your thoughts the next few days in the last two weeks ullrick has rapidly lost weight and has been pretty listless but he was still eating and drinking so i waited a few days to see if he would improve over the weekend it became clear to me that something was very wrong today we spent six hours at the vet doing various blood tests ultrasounds and x rays it seems that ullrick has some sort of lump in his intestines and the results of the blood tests were not good tomorrow morning they are doing exploratory surgery to see if they can figure out the cause of his illness hopefully it s benign and can be removed immediately and i don t really want to think about the other possibilities right now until we have a definite prognosis the vet gave me some non conclusive information this afternoon and i missed half of it since it was in swedish and my thoughts were elsewhere there is a possibility it is feline leukemia which means that vessa will have to be tested for it as well even though she is a healthy happy and very friendly 10 month old ullrick is just a year he s too young to be going through this ullrick is laying right here next to me on the bed and is one very unhappy kitten the day at the vet was hard on both of us but especially him please keep your fingers and paws crossed in the next 24 hours and we ll let you know when we have more information curiosa posted by curiosa tuesday september 26 2006 25 comments sunday july 30 2006 birthday boy posted by curiosa sunday july 30 2006 22 comments friday july 28 2006 we make shit so your cat doesn t have to the scenario a very happy cat dances in the sand of a very clean litter box a very relieved owner is very happy that the very irksome task is almost complete the only thing left to be done is a trip out to the hall to drop a very shit filled black plastic garbage bag down the trash chute two milliseconds later a very confused cat poops in sand which is no longer in either the litter box or the black plastic garbage bag a very unhappy owner releases a string of very explicit expletives that neither you nor your children would want to hear sand is everywhere it s like a beach except shittier and stinkier if there had been a fan blowing the shit would have literally hit it trust me you d rather skip this part and so would we the next day a non plussed feline probably having forgotten about the incident from the previous evening sleeps very blissfully a very seething owner explores whether or not there is a legal precedent to sue a garbage bag manufacturer for emotional damage resulting from a faulty product which was neither glad nor hefty the cat is clearly not the only one making shit we make shit tm brand garbage bags get the prize for the shittiest shit bags ever posted by curiosa friday july 28 2006 4 comments thursday july 13 2006 please feed me posted by curiosa thursday july 13 2006 8 comments sunday july 02 2006 spic and span doesn t a fresh clean litter box just make you want to poop already i just can t stand the sight of that untouched sand muuuust dig posted by curiosa sunday july 02 2006 7 comments about me name curiosa location stockholm sweden kommissarie f curiosa is a female detective in her mid twenties delving into the baffling yet somehow tantalizing mystery of the swedish male in sweden s chilly capital city she s a modern day mata hari infiltrating the grisly underworld of dating in a foreign country during the course of her investigation curiosa discovered that blogs about dating are an excellent way to get dates of course none of her dates were actually with the strong silent nordic type her romantic attention was soon captivated to a fellow expat blogger who took the interesting and unconventional approach of writing odes to ullrick turns out the way to a girl s heart is through her cat this resulted in a suspension of curiosa s investigation of the strong silent nordic type but not to fear her new relationship provides plenty of blog fodder much to the dismay of her significant other view my complete profile links kitten wars stuff on my cat cats in sinks my cat hates you cute overload psychokitty kitten break ramblin cat clean your screen talking cats letterman s top ten reasons your kitty is a genius my hideout writing cats and writers cats the psychokitty speaks out diary of a mad housecat by max thompson by max thompson pre publication copy cleveland amory s compleat cat by cleveland amory the cat who dropped a bombshell by lilian jackson braun everything i know about life i learned from my cat by lesley ann ivory norwegian forest cat links proudly show that you are owned by a norwegian forest cat the norwegian forest cats sitering this site owned by ullrick sitering by bravenet com previous posts not just a cat goodbye calling all paws birthday boy we make shit so your cat doesn t have to please feed me spic and span i just couldn t help myself the real catwalk the furry fury archives december 2005 january 2006 february 2006 march 2006 april 2006 may 2006 june 2006 july 2006 september 2006 october 2006