Leave a treat for Toonces *Big eyed Angel* Nicknames: Mr. T, Mr. Quimby, Not so Dainty Boy Kitty, T, Big Un, Toonches, The Tooncinator, Tooncie, Toonc, Snookums (and he hates them all) Kitty Complexion:
Activeness
sleepy
very active
Intelligence
silly
genius
Curiosity
not curious
very curious
Friendliness
timid
affectionate
Vocal
not vocal
very vocal
Sun Sign:
Quick Bio:
-pound cat
Birthday: April 26th 1994 Coloration: Gray Tabby Likes: Driving the car! Temptation Treats! Being Fed. Eating. 23 hour naps, getting in a box or bag, Dancing with the Stars (he's watching in picture, loves to be brushed! Pet-Peeves: His sister Ashley, being held, kissed, or picked up, Daddy rubbing his tummy, water less than 30 seconds old Favorite Toy: Are you crazy? Toys are for ninnys. He's SO above that. He occasionally will play with a string if you run it past him a hundred times and beg... Favorite Nap Spot: Wherever he falls, the daybed, parent's bed. Anywhere in the house is a prime sleeping spot for T Favorite Food: Purina, Fancy Feast, Party Mix and TEMPTATION TREATS, they are like kitty drugs!! He loves them so, we fear Betty Ford is in his future... Skills: He is a professional beggar. He talks and answers you when you talk to him, and makes a great pillow. And like Toonces the driving cat, he can drive, just not very well..... Dwells:
indoors Arrival Story: He was rescued from the Augusta, GA pound when he was on death row--literally--going to be put down the next day. He was a gift to his mom. He subsequently moved in and life became about Toonces. He lives for the day he can steal the car and drive and leave us because we are so inferior to the noble Toonces. When my ex-husband and I divorced, my only stipulation was that I got custody of the lovable Toonces, named of course for Toonces the Driving Cat on SNL. And I got him! Life would not be the same without the lovable, good natured Toonc. And he knows it. Bio: Toonces has had kidney failure three times and keeps on kicking. He is the sweetest cat ever, a big old ham and a great napper. He has the biggest green eyes I've ever seen on a cat, and thinks all of us are pretty stupid. He tolerates his sister, Ashley, but secretly plans her demise when we are away. :) Toonces simply feels he is a little bit above everyone else. He allows us to pet and scratch him and he'll give you a hand nuzzle, but forget about kisses and hugs. He's far too macho and it's so much like "the other cats". It's Toonces' world, we just live here. When I remarried, my husband became Toonces' best pal. Toonces' motto is "love all, trust none", probably because of all the vet trips he had to make....if you pick him up, he suspects an ulterior motive...
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CATSTER HONORS
Toonces was cat of the week in a great group, "I'm not orange but I am proud" January, 2008.
Toonces was pet of the week in another great group "Dogs and Cats Shores" September, 2007.
Toonces was group logo picture in ANOTHER great group "Hey, you look like me" October, 2007.
Toonces was cat of the week in STILL another fine group "Chatty Cats" in 2007. Lately, Toonces was voted Fancy Cat Club's COTW 7-12-09.
Toonces' video "The Tooncinator" was a Catster featured video!
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Toonces" vet tells us that his old body is simply breaking down, and that he won't even draw blood. In just examining Toonces, the vet said he could feel the clicks and the hips and spine just deteriorating. Three weeks ago he was examined and was doing very well. Our vet feels he either had degeneration that just finally ramped up or he could have bone cancer that has metastasized. Either way, we can manage pain with meds but not for very long. This is just giving us time to love him and to say a hard, wrenching goodbye to our big old baby. He weighed 12 pounds and was down 2 from three weeks ago. It is hard to even fathom a life without Toonces.
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Toonces died peacefully in his Meowmie's arms on 5-9-11 at 3:40 pm. I don't know how we will make it each day without the adorable, smart, and talented Toonces. Our only comfort is he is at the Bridge, free of pain and chasing butterflies. And eating lots of Party Mix. :) Toonces, you touched us all and your pawprints are forever on our hearts, our big old baby boy. Godspeed. Forums Motto: Humans, they are SO inferior... The Groups I'm In: *HAPPY KITTIES*, 10 YEARS OR OVER??? DOGS or CATS, ♥ Chatty Cats ♥ , ♥All Fur Fun♥, **Tabbies With 'Tudes** , *Super Strollers*, College Football Fans, Hey! You Look Like Me!, I'm Not Orange; But I Am Proud, The 3 Amigos, Welcome Waggin' for Dogsters and Catsters, Beautiful cat eyes, Brusselball, De House of Isaac, Fearless Feline Flyers', Febreze® Pet Odor Eliminator™, Olde Furts, Samoa's Detective Agency, Silly Sab Stories, Spreading the love of POTP, Super Skilled Kitties, Sweet Face, The Lost Island Of Atlantis Couples Paradise ~Featuring Singles Catnip Valley!, The NFL Fan Club, UGA DAWG LOVERS - GEORGIA BULLDOGS, Voki Madness!, Welcome to Kitthaven Estates
My Caster family has been a true blessing to my family and to me this last week. The acts of love and kindness have been a warm blanket around our hearts. When I left for the bridge on May 9, our journey into another phase of our lives began. My family is struggling with not having me around (and I can see why. I was the glue, everyone knew that!). Ashley still cries and cries, looking for me. I was my meowmie’s baby for 17 years and the toll has been quite hard on her. I was my daddy’s BFF (Best Feline Friend!) and he loved me so much, he has really been hurting. Poor Ashley, she is devastated. Meowmie gives her lots of snacks and tries to comfort her, but she is so sad. She still finds the energy to smack Snooki the dog, though. I don't think she's ever going to accept her, because Ashley is such a diva. But, I do miss her so much.
The one thing that has helped is the outpouring of love from my Catster family. Though we haven’t been so active in the last months (posting anyway--we read as much and as often as we could), it was good to know we weren’t forgotten. The rosettes, emails, and cards we received have blessed my family more than you will ever know. I don't know that we can thank each one personally, but know that we know and love and appreciate every single sweet gesture. I miss my family, but I am free to be with all my friends at the bridge and of course, my lovely Miss Mittens, the love of my life. The days are carefree and the cuisine is delightful. And of course, cuisine is important to me. :) I hope I can put some weight back on so I am still the little bucket of love I was before this took a toll.
God has blessed me in my life, and my family blessed each other so much. That includes my Catster family. God bless you all, and thank you from the bottom of my heart. Please continue to purr and pray for my loving and grieving family.
I am basking in the sun at Rainbow Bridge! I see all my Catster pals welcoming me! Wow, the sun is shining so brightly and there are unlimited Party Mix Treats all over the place! And my girl Miss Mittens was the first one there to greet me. The Olde Furts are well represented up here for sure; they all came out to greet me, as did many more of my Catster pals who paved the way for me! Arnold P and I are talking about Augusta this morning over some cat snacks and some great food.
I want to tell you about my experience so other pawrents like mine can know and can have this as useful information should the time come for them. Mine had to learn really fast as I got sick quickly, so I hope this is helpful for anyone who might need it.
My meowmie found a v-e-t who was quite nice who was semi-retired and had a kitty practice for 20 years! She came highly recommended and she told meowmie she would come to our house. I understand through other Catster pals many vets will do this for you at your home so you don’t have to transport which we all know is traumatic. The vet, Kathy, was very nice and sweet and loving. She told meowmie I could have anything I wanted to eat, which was just to distract me from the little shot I know, but I was down with that. The shot made me sleepy feeling, but it didn’t hurt at all, she was so gentle. I ate lots of party mix while meowmie held me and my aunt stroked my head. Daddy’s eyes were leaking really badly so he had to go outside. The shot made me tired and I wanted to look at meowmie with my head up high, but in a minute or so I just let my head relax and my body relaxed, but I could still see meowmie’s face just fine. Meowmie said she didn’t realize my body was so tense until it started to relax. I was hurting but I didn’t want her to know how much, so when the medicine started to take effect, I could relax! I wasn’t in any pain anymore! Wow, that was good stuff! Then the nice lady put a little IV in my arm and I purred at meowmie some more with my big loud purr, and I nuzzled meowmie’s hand a lot. Meowmie was trying not to let her eyes leak but kept talking to me about how sweet I was which frankly, I can never hear too often. She sang to me and kissed me a lot, but I didn’t mind because I felt so relaxed and warm in my blankie. Meowmie looked sad but kept trying to smile at me. I kept looking at her so she knew I loved her and I would miss her. I am pretty sure she figured that out from my signals. Gosh, we’ve been together a long time.
Then, I saw the bridge and all my pals! Wow, it’s just like everyone said! I chased butterflies and then I wiggled on the ground. I ate grass and I played and played. Then Miss Mittens and I had to catch up and go see all our friends together. She was waiting for me just like she promised she would, pretty girl!
I watched my pawrents and I still am. They are so broken hearted and Ashley cries from room to room, looking for me. Doggie Snooki kept kissing my face and sat next to meowmie the whole time. She turned out to be a very nice girl and I think she will look after my pawrents for me now, since Ashley is pretty but highly unreliable. I really had a hand in Snooki coming there, because I knew my eyes were growing old and my time was coming, far before anyone else knew. I knew everyone needs someone, and they all need each other right now. I hope Ashley will not be so mean to Snooki because Ashley needs a friend right now.
A nice lady from a local perpetual care group came to get my shell and that shell (as I am no longer there, remember?) will be cremated today and placed in a beautiful pet columbarium with my picture and a bronze plaque about me. The lady asked for some snacks to take with her to put in my urn! How did she know I liked them so much, that was so cool! That resting place seems pretty fitting to me, as I was pretty regal in life so I should have a regal forever monument and those will be finished this summer so for now, I am safely kept at the perpetual care center. The lady was so sweet to my pawrents and she sat and stroked my old body as I looked down from above. How kind she was to them!
Meowmie never left me yesterday as I never left her my entire life. I was so glad when she married Daddy, because he was my bestest pal ever. I miss her and Daddy already, but I know we’ll be together again and I am enjoying all my Catster pals today. God bless all of them and thank you all for showing such love to me and to my pawrents, who are just having such a hard time coping with this. Seventeen years was just not enough time together. Seventy years would not have been enough. Without grief, we cannot know love, so I hope that their sad time passes soon. I miss them, too. Please purr and pray for them and most of all for poor Ashley who is really grieving her little heart out. I guess as aggravating as she was she really loved me most of all.
God bless you all!
Toonces (who’s going to take a little cat nap now under a tree!)
I have loved my time on Catster and all the friends I have made. I wanted to tell you what is going on with me.
Suddenly, things have gone quite wrong for me. On Friday, I wasn’t feeling well and by that afternoon, I could barely walk. Meowmie and Daddy took me to the v-e-t and that stethoscope was cold.
I saw tears in my vet’s eyes and he would not even draw blood because he told Meowmie it would hurt me too much. It seems my discs have just gone in my back and now caused my hips to just go as well, so I can barely walk. I am eating a lot though and purring when I am petted, but my pawrents bring the food to me and then I drag myself to hide. The vet gave me some pain medicine and I heard the vet say it would be a miracle if I came back from this.
I don’t ask for prayers for me because I’ve had a long and wonderful life, but my pawrents are devastated because I know they have to make “the decision” that they’ve never wanted to make. This has come on so quickly (I was just at the vet three weeks ago and was fine!) and they cry a lot. Ashley and Snooki are coming and lying down with me. That dog I wasn’t so happy to see has sure been sweet to me, and Ashley just looks very sad. As much as Ashley aggravates me, I really do love her and Snooki has become my nap partner. She’s pretty nice for a d-o-g.
I want to say though I haven’t posted a lot recently, I do read and I have made some wonderful friends on Catster and will cross-post this on several groups. I have been a fighter all my life and rallied back but my old bones are just giving out now and it’s just too hard to fight. I sure have enjoyed my friends on Catster through the years and it led me to meet my Mittens, who it seems I shall join soon. Seventeen years is a good life, I have sure enjoyed mine. I’ll update what’s going on, and I know miracles can happen because I got one years ago when my kidneys were failing and suddenly, I turned around. But, I am also realistic too. Meowmie and Daddy took me outside in the yard yesterday because the yard is fenced and I can’t run, so I laid in the sunshine and watched things going on. It was nice and Snooki came and sat with me too.
