Ok so I admit that what I'm about to say is totally not feminist or independent at all but sometimes I would really like a man in my life. Today's reason... it would be nice to have a male to dispose of dead pets. I hadn't seen Tess since some time on Saturday. This has happened before, but I got a bit worried. My biggest fear with regards to Tess was to find her dead in the closet... You know where this is going right? While cleaning my room tonight I figured I had to go looking for her. Sigh. I found her. She was all folded up in an old blanket. I'm taking her to the vet's tomorrow to let them dispose of her body. I'm sad but not as sad as I was when Minka and Baxter died. I think I'd be more sad if I hadn't already been anticipating this for several months now. The biggest sign she was probably dead... there hadn't been poop in my bed since Friday night.
Also it is completely unenvironmental and uncharitable of me, but I threw the blanket she died in in the trash. The blanket was already pretty foul. It had been my sister's and I don't know the last time it had been washed. It sat in the back of my closet for the past 6 years.
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Sorry about Tess.
sorry, i have that fear too, but a cat is a little easier to find. and while i have a man (well, "man" is a technical term) he doesn't even clean the litter box, so i am not sure how handy they are at things less...disposable.
at the very least, i am glad she went warm and snuggly in a blanket.
Oh Joanne, I'm so sorry to hear about Tess. I know where you are coming from as I was actually relieved to have been out of town when Ami the hamster died in September. My husband (as Ren noted above, "man" is a technicality. And we know each other's "men" and can say this with certainty). He kept him in the fridge until I got home so I could bury him. I'm sort of sad that I looked at him because that's my last image.
Take good care. ***Hugs to you.***
Awwww, sorry to hear about Tess.
So sorry to hear about Tess. :(
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