SleepyPanda
Always sleepy, not actually a panda.
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My family owned two cats, brothers: Monty (black) and Louie (ginger tabby). We got them when my brother and I still lived at home, so they were always 'our' cats as well as Mum and Dad's. There were stranger happenings surrounding both their deaths.
Monty:
Monty got very ill when he was ten years old. The Vet advised it was feline lukemia, gave him some medication to make him a bit more comfortable, but it was obvious he didn't have much time left. He was too weak to really move much; he certainly wasn't going upstairs.
The night before he was due to go back to the Vets', we were all prepared for having him put to sleep. I was still at home at this time, and I went into the kitchen to make a pot of tea. Mum and Dad were in the living room, with Monty asleep on Dad's knee. I heard someone going upstairs, and didn't think anything of it until I went back into the living room, and both Mum and Dad were still there. Dad said "I thought you'd just gone upstairs", to which I replied "I thought YOU'D gone upstairs". Mum said she hadn't heard anything, and Dad said "Well Monty certainly did, because he followed whoever it was". We checked upstairs, nobody there. Checked the front and back doors, still locked. Monty slept on my bed that night, which I'd been missing, so that was really lovely. He was put to sleep the next day, but that last night was somehow comforting.
And I'd forgotten about this, but Mum recently reminded me that the next morning, she opened the back door and all the estates' cats were gathered in the back garden. She likes to think they came to pay their respects!
Louie:
When Mum went to get 'the boys' as kittens, she only intended to get the black one as she loves black cats. However, when she went over to the pile of kittens that were all snuggled up asleep together on a chair, Louie wriggled his way out of the pile, climbed up to her, put his front legs around her neck and pressed his cheek against hers. Well, she couldn't resist that!
Mum and Dad had Louie put to sleep quite recently. He was 18 and a half, so a ripe old age. His back legs stopped working, and the Vet said his heart had stopped pumping blood to them.
Mum didn't want to watch, so she went out into the waiting room. While she was sitting there, a man with a border collie dog came in. It went up to her, put its front legs around her neck and pressed its cheek against hers. Its owner pulled it away, saying "I'm sorry, I don't know why he did that, he's never done it before."
Monty:
Monty got very ill when he was ten years old. The Vet advised it was feline lukemia, gave him some medication to make him a bit more comfortable, but it was obvious he didn't have much time left. He was too weak to really move much; he certainly wasn't going upstairs.
The night before he was due to go back to the Vets', we were all prepared for having him put to sleep. I was still at home at this time, and I went into the kitchen to make a pot of tea. Mum and Dad were in the living room, with Monty asleep on Dad's knee. I heard someone going upstairs, and didn't think anything of it until I went back into the living room, and both Mum and Dad were still there. Dad said "I thought you'd just gone upstairs", to which I replied "I thought YOU'D gone upstairs". Mum said she hadn't heard anything, and Dad said "Well Monty certainly did, because he followed whoever it was". We checked upstairs, nobody there. Checked the front and back doors, still locked. Monty slept on my bed that night, which I'd been missing, so that was really lovely. He was put to sleep the next day, but that last night was somehow comforting.
And I'd forgotten about this, but Mum recently reminded me that the next morning, she opened the back door and all the estates' cats were gathered in the back garden. She likes to think they came to pay their respects!
Louie:
When Mum went to get 'the boys' as kittens, she only intended to get the black one as she loves black cats. However, when she went over to the pile of kittens that were all snuggled up asleep together on a chair, Louie wriggled his way out of the pile, climbed up to her, put his front legs around her neck and pressed his cheek against hers. Well, she couldn't resist that!
Mum and Dad had Louie put to sleep quite recently. He was 18 and a half, so a ripe old age. His back legs stopped working, and the Vet said his heart had stopped pumping blood to them.
Mum didn't want to watch, so she went out into the waiting room. While she was sitting there, a man with a border collie dog came in. It went up to her, put its front legs around her neck and pressed its cheek against hers. Its owner pulled it away, saying "I'm sorry, I don't know why he did that, he's never done it before."
