Postings by RADDY (my heart's darling)

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RADDY (my- heart's- darling) I am still my- Meouwmy's- Beloved....     Purred: Tue May 7, '13 3:09am PST  Dear Cinders' Meouwmy.....Hi...it is Janet here....I thought when you started writing this thread that it would come to this for Cinders....but, and I do know, you've got to try as much as you can to see if you can make it better (that seems to be the FIRST thing you have to do).....the SECOND thing you have to do is to start a process of acceptance in yourself (and it does come)....the THIRD thing is to BE WITH YOUR ANIMAL-FRIEND when the vet helps them to go to Rainbow Bridge....with my cats that I have seen over the Bridge, I cuddle them, put my nose to their nose and sing to them....have to tell you that in my experience they go easily....also, I think, if you can be left to cuddle and stroke when they are gone...I think it would help...when Conrad went over the Bridge, the vet took him away from me too quickly afterwards...the FOURTH thing is to do what seems good to you for their (and your) rite of passage (THE RITE OF PASSAGE IS VERY IMPORTANT AND CAN BE HEALING)....I can give you some good hints and tiny bits of (possible) wisdom from my own experience, if you would like? Let me know, if you wish, and I can paw mail you.....the FIFTH thing to do, I have found...and this is only my experience...write...write...about Cinders...from Cinders...do her a diary page or a blog...about her or from her or answering in her name to questions and answers.....The Ancient Egyptians (who...ehhhhh - by the way -...also 'worshipped cats') believed that if your name was seen and was spoken, you would live on.....so continue to speak her name? So much love to you and to Cinders....so much love.... Jan, Tambolina and Joseph Conrad my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become friends [notify]

RADDY (my- heart's- darling) I am still my- Meouwmy's- Beloved....     Purred: Mon Apr 1, '13 4:41am PST  I have just written a very long, heartfelt post about this subject...It took me ages...and now they tell me, 'coyly', that there are some words? a word? that is not acceptable....but, bugger me, I don't know what it was....!! 'psychological'? 'spiritual'? I have not sworn...believe me I have not..!! It cannot have been that.... Though I want to swear PRODIGIOUSLY NOW..!! Hope this gets through.... my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become friends [notify]

Other Meows & Purrs > COOLEST NAMES

RADDY (my- heart's- darling) I am still my- Meouwmy's- Beloved....     Purred: Sat Mar 2, '13 3:24am PST  Dear Ones....Halloooooo...!! Well, it is me here...!! Grandad Joseph Conrad...and no, I am not here to tell you why that is my name (although 'thereby hangs an interesting tail'.....) No, I am here to tell you (part of) the strange story of that Mighty Warrior 'Cuchulain Cavmere'.....so grab a mousepie....and gather round...... Once upon a time (some 11 years ago) my Meouwmy and the male human went all the way to Solihull to look at some British Blue Pedigree Shorthair kitlings....and they were beautiful and they were clean and their Mum and them (just two kitlings) were in a sunny, lovely room...and they were playing...and the Meouwmy said: 'I want THAT one....!! Gosh, he is a big bugger...!!' And it was the Mighty Cuchulain Cavmere....!! The Meouwmy called him 'Cuchulain' (a mythical Irish Warrior/Hero) because she was DESPERATE that he should grow up big and strong...(this relates to the other part of the story which was dark and frightening and really horrible and sad)..... Anyway, they went back to Solihull when 'Cuchulain' was three months old and they took him home with them....and he was SO CROSS....gawd, he was cross...!! Moaning and swearing and muttering and giving them evil looks.....!! But he got used to them and to his life in his forever home.....and he was, and is still, a very happy fellow..... Now....this is the funny bit...the Meouwmy and the male human had spent the two months since they first saw him, talking about him, and how wonderful he would be and how big and strong....he was their 'Mighty Hero, Cuchulain'.....the Meouwmy remembers many Friday evenings...sitting in the car outside the Fish-and-Chip Shop, waiting for their fish supper to be ready....and talking about the Wonderful Cuchulain Cavmere who was coming to share their life with them....and the Meouwmy ached in her heart for him....They got him...!! And he was WONDERFUL....but the sadness in the Meouwmy for what had gone before spoiled his kitlinghood....but he was SO loved, in spite of it..... well...enough faffing around...!! Sorry...!! But the Meouwmy LOVES this story and it makes her happy to tell it..... He was CUCHULAIN.....!! A WARRIOR/HERO...!! A little while after they got him they found out that 'Cuchulain' was pronounced (in Irish) 'Coo-hulan'....so 'Coo-hulan' he became....!! And then 'Coolan' and then.....yes.....'Colin'.....!! He is now 'Colin'.....but in his heart...in his heart....he is.......? my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become friends [notify]

Other Meows & Purrs > Facebook Pages

RADDY (my- heart's- darling) I am still my- Meouwmy's- Beloved....     Purred: Tue Feb 19, '13 2:48am PST  Dear Tia.....Hallooooooo...!! A Facebook page...!! Of course I have a Facebook page....all of my own...AND I allow my Meouwmy to use it too...!! I write under the soubriquet of 'Grandad Conrad'.....come and have a look? There are some others as well, that I know of...there is one for 'Pookie', I believe, and one for 'Little Meouw'.... Do you have one? I shall go and have a look.... Best wishes and kitty kisses from Raddy (aka 'You horrible old Bugger'; aka Joseph Conrad; aka Grandad Conrad) my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become friends [notify]

Senior Cats > how can people just throw a cat away b/c they are old

RADDY (my- heart's- darling) I am still my- Meouwmy's- Beloved....     Purred: Sun Feb 17, '13 4:20am PST  Dear Noel and Noel's Meouwmy....please come to my Facebook page? 'Grandad Conrad'? Come talk to us....please....I (the Great and Trying-To-Keep-On-Though-It-Is-Very-Hard Grandad) DO have a few laughs...and, perhaps, you could come and laugh with us? Maybe.... Grandad Conrad and Jan xxxx my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become friends [notify]

RADDY (my- heart's- darling) I am still my- Meouwmy's- Beloved....     Purred: Wed Jan 16, '13 6:26am PST  Hi...it is Jan here.....I was very interested in your posts about hearing (or seeing) your loved kitties who have passed over the Bridge.....I have lived with cats and been their Meouwmy for almost 40 years and I think I MIGHT have sometimes heard one or another of those who have gone...but perhaps it was just the wind in the trees.....don't know.... HOWEVER...I DO have a quite interesting story to tell, in this regard.....so grab a mousepie and gather round..... Firstly, must tell you that this is a story about the Amazing Grandad Conrad...(look him up on his page: Grandad Conrad c/o Facebook, England.....) ANYWAY, many years ago, when the Grandad Conrad was only a little babbie-cat and was called 'Conrad' or 'Raddy', and was nowhere near the potential that he later reached as the 'Magnificent and Revolting' Grandad, he lived here in our house with me (the Meouwmy); a male human; and an assortment of other kitties.....one of which was the 'Miss Lucy'.... He loved the Miss Lucy....he loved her from the moment he first saw her, when he was brought home to us all as a tiny 2-month old babbie......and the Miss Lucy loved him...(although he was always revolting - right from the start).....and she looked after him and tried to show him the correct way to go....and she would play with him...especially in the circular flower bed in the middle of the front garden...in and out of the budlia bushes, round and round and under the stone trough in the centre and 'hah...caught you...you didn't know I was there did you...?!!'..... The Miss Lucy died in 2002, while the Grandad was still young-ish....not sure how old...but, whatever, they still played in the central circular flower bed until the Miss Lucy could do it no more..... I (Jan) hope you are enjoying this little story....I am certainly enjoying writing it....for it takes me back to good times with the Miss Lucy and the Revolting Joseph Conrad....... Anyway....the punchline of the story (and what relates to the Forum Title: 'Ghost of your Kitty?') is that, when the Miss Lucy had gone over Rainbow Bridge, the Grandad... still then the young 'Joseph Conrad - Raddy'....knew she was gone....and he was very sad....and I took him to the vets and said 'he is not eating' and the Vet said: 'he has to grieve'.....and one time he sat on the stone table in the back garden and he HISSED at a plane going across the sky..... And he would go out to the central flower bed in the front garden...he would walk there.....and then he would jump about and play and be totally silly and look under the stone trough.....and prat around..... Did he find the 'ghost' of the Miss Lucy there ready to play with him? Or did he go there in the HOPE that he would find her ghost there and if he pratted about enough she would come and play with him? Don't know.... Jan my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become friends [notify]

Saying Goodbye: Memorials & Support > its been 7 years and its still hard to deal

RADDY (my- heart's- darling) I am still my- Meouwmy's- Beloved....     Purred: Sat Jan 5, '13 4:50am PST  Dear Meouwmy to Mr Flufflers.....Hallo.... Lots of stuff I can tell you, to, perhaps, help to make you feel a little better?....don't know....But I will have a go..... a) Many years ago I had a beautiful, intelligent, loving little black cat called Arnold...he went out every day and I worried...of course I did.....but one day, instead of getting him in at his usual time (6.00pm), I wanted to see something on the television, so I left him out for longer.....he got run over and died....was it my fault for not getting him in earlier? yes/no/maybe.....perhaps you feel a bit like this about Mr Flufflers and your calling him in? I don't know....if you do feel guilt, as I did....then have to say to you that for me, the guilt has never totally passed, nor the frustration that he was a very young cat with a very bright future (he was SO intelligent) that was cut off short....!! here...gone!! and that was it...!! But the days pass, the months pass, the years pass....and the pain and guilt subside, but never go away (I still have his bath toy that we used to play with together when I had a bath...it is a turtle that you wind up and put in the water and he used to bat it around the bath) b) The cat that I CANNOT LET GO OF....I cannot....(like you cannot let go of Mr Flufflers) was Joseph Conrad....he was the kitty-love of my life.....he was such a pain and a trial, (Jeez...he was 'orrible...!!) and I had to work so HARD to make his life bearable for him...he would pee everywhere; he would fight anything that moved (big dogs, small cats, people...most of my friends and relations were TERRIFIED OF HIM...he would lurk in dark places and then grab their ankles...!!)....he was SO AFRAID of everything all the time BUT SO BRAVE.....I ADORED him....we would lie on the bed together and look into each other's eyes and we were at peace...together....for a little while.....(I, also, have always been afraid of everything...but I do not pee everywhere....!!) Dear Mr Fluffler's Meouwmy....two things here that might help you...don't know..... 1) I have not (as I said) been able to give Joseph Conrad up (he has been gone three years now)....just can't do it yet....SO I wrote a little book BY HIM....and I started a page by him on Facebook...'Grandad Conrad'.....have a look, perhaps....and he and I write....and, yes, in my head and in my heart he is still here...and we do have a laugh sometimes......perhaps, if you wish, Mr Fluffler could join in? (believe me, it does help).... 2) I (the Meouwmy of the Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Joseph Conrad and so many other loved kitties) am now 65 years old.....and I have had SO MANY loved-kitties with me over the years.....and sometimes, now, I forget which one is which....and they all merge into a beautiful, black (mainly black, or black and white) Kitty....(when I, the Meouwmy was young,or younger, the Auntie who brought me up used to get me and my cousins mixed up and call us by each other's names or by the same name)..... Dear Mr Fluffler's Meouwmy.....eventually, after you have had many more beautiful kittypeople you will accept the death of Mr Fluffler....because you will have to.... Have a look at 'Grandad Conrad...you are very welcome there...and, you never know, it might help..... All best wishes Jan (the Meouwmy) and Grandad Conrad my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become friends [notify]

Cat Health > Cat health ?

RADDY (my- heart's- darling) I am still my- Meouwmy's- Beloved....     Purred: Thu Nov 8, '12 3:13am PST  Please just take your ancient and venerable cat to see a good vet....she is so old for a cat....perhaps they will be able to sort her out for a while....or perhaps it is nearly her time.....who knows? But a good vet will know.... I am so happy for you that you have kept her for so long....My so dearly-loved cat, Joseph Conrad, only made it to nearly 18 and I thought that was good....!! Please take her to a good vet (a GOOD one, mind) and let us know what they say? All best wishes Jan (and Grandad Conrad) xxx my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become friends [notify]

Cat Health > Disabled Kitten

RADDY (my- heart's- darling) I am still my- Meouwmy's- Beloved....     Purred: Fri Nov 2, '12 4:04am PST  Dear Kitty Meow's Meouwmy...I have tried to find Kitty Meow's page on facebook....I have tried 'back stunts, front stunts etc...etc' but can't find it.....!! I will try again....but, perhaps you and the little kitty would like to come and visit me on my page on facebook? 'Grandad Conrad' So many, many good thoughts to you both... Grandad Conrad (aka Raddy), Tambolina and Jan (the Meouwmy) xxx my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become friends [notify]

RADDY (my- heart's- darling) I am still my- Meouwmy's- Beloved....     Purred: Thu Nov 1, '12 4:54am PST  Dear Catster Cat....I had a little 'cat book' published last year about MEEEEEE...!!!....is there any way that 'The Diary of Grandad Conrad The Magnificent and Revolting' could elbow its way into the conference somewhere? The Meouwmy and I would be happy to sit right at the back......!! Have to say that Miss Janea knows me and can vouch for me......Halloooooo...!! Miss Janea.... Well, just a thought....I (the Great, Magnificent and Revolting Grandad) would be happy, anyway, to distribute a few mousepies to all concerned, to make the conference go with a 'zing'....(best mousepies in the known world).... ps. Don't worry, I do not expect anything....have to tell you that my book went down like the proverbial 'lead balloon'..(no publicity)..but I was not downhearted....What? Me? The Great Grandad? Downhearted? Nah, it was alright...we made a 'few bob' for the Cats' Protection Society and, to be honest, what more can one hope for? But, sometimes, in the deep of the night, my Meouwmy dreams of the 'spin-offs' that we could have had made, if my book had taken off...like...oh, I don't know....a little black-cat Grandad toy that you fill with water and then you press its nose and its tail shoots up and it pees everywhere....!!!! Now THAT would be wonderful....you have to admit that that would be wonderful....!! Well, whatever....hope you all have a really good conference and enjoy yourselves hugely....!! pps. I am now going off to 'chase leaf skeletons in Autumn gardens and ghost mice in ruined barns'....I'll think of you all at the conference when I catch the REALLY big buggers....!! All best thoughts to you... Grandad Conrad (aka Raddy) my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become friends [notify]

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