Yeah, I don't encourage the "on the keyboard" thing. But, she sometimes insists on waiking across it She goes crazy when I'm printing something from my printer--sticking her paws in it, etc. . I'll send more funny pics later. Got to go to sleep!

She's such a pretty kitty. Sounds like a sweetie, too.

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Thanks, Maltese Mama. She IS a sweetie. But, she has long soft fur which sometimes means--- hairballs.

*Youngest girl, maybe 3 years old, knew the cats are "inside" cats and not to be let outside. But all of a sudden, it seemed like one in particular was darting outside at the slightest opening of a door. He was just that quick about it. So, one day we're on the patio and we watched in bemused shock as our little princess holds open the sliding glass door while the miscreant cat sauntered across the room, to the open door and went out. Without missing a beat, she turned to us and said in her most innocent little voice, "He so fast!"

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She is a pretty cat, ShellBeach, and seems so many cats love to sit on keyboards.

I lost my dear dear Lucy Beagle. She ate trash that my husband left around, after I begged him to put it out!!
Was cleaning the refrigerator, and other heavy duty cleaning. She was 15 or 16 but still had life in her. Quiet, lovely days eating (as Beagles often do) and naps in the sun on her floor bed. Couldn't jump up onto her chair anymore - arthritis. I found out from the Xrays and Ultrasounds she had other problems I didn't know about.

My Holistic Vet who worked SO hard with her and made her seem 8 years younger, cried along with me. She died at the Emergency Hospital. Was there 4 days. I can't talk about this...

BUT .. My Vet gave me a great book to help. I wanted to share the name with you ... since some day we may all need it - again. "Goodbye, Friend" Healing Wisdom for Anyone Who Has Ever Lost a Pet by Gary Kowalski author of The Souls of Animals.

BTW Lilly never really interacted with Lucy but she is grieving, big time. I had NO IDEA she LOVED HER. STARES at her beds, and didn't hardly eat, for a couple weeks. She is eating now. I am now too.

I am so sorry you lost your Lucy. I had a hard time when I lost my big boy, Shadow, too. The one thing I always keep in mind that these were dogs that were loved and passed on happy. Now there are no more aches and pains for them and we are left with wonderful memories of love and affection.

Yes, thanks for that Deb. I know she had more life in her, but my husband let her get into
heavy duty cleaning trash/food. My poor baby. Fought for 4 days in the Emergency Hospital.

Can't write more now...

Thanks Deb...

R.I.P. dear Shadow. Please look up Lucy, very pretty older Beagle and show, her the ropes?

I am so sorry Deb. I LOST my "shadow" too. Always followed me, everywhere, even though I tried to keep it simple and explain (using the SAME words all the time), where I was going, kitchen, powder room, etc. Is that why you called him Shadow? I heard they can learn about 30 words?

I find I have to be STRONG ENOUGH to even read the book the Holistic Vet gave me, "Goodbye, Friend".

He was already named Shadow by the next door neighbors to my Auntie. He was chained up in their yard (unfenced) and went without food or water half the time and when he escaped the chain he came to Aunties house. That happened a lot since he soon figured out what side of the toast was buttered!

My aunt gave them $40 for him. He went to the vet and there was a whole laundry list of things wrong with him. Heartworms, mange, intestinal issues... My aunt built him a small fenced yard to play in and he got healthier by the week. The 50lb weakling blossomed into an 88lb wonder dog.

The house was on stilts since it was right on Galveston Bay. After The Lulu (aunt) enclosed the bottom, I moved in with her. I was having a very hard time after rehab and I swear than he loved me into caring again.

His name fit him because every where I was, there he was. I worked odd hours and never got off at the same time but The Lulu told me if he got restless during the night, she knew I would be there within 10 minutes. Didn't matter 2am, 4am, 5am...he always knew.

I have his ashes and collar on the FP mantle. It took me a couple of years to get CricketFrmHell and I love her to death, the little oddball that destroys everything she can get her teeth around!

If you have a picture of Lucy The Beloved Beagle, I would love to see it. Beagle puppies are THE BOMB! Nuzzle-able!

Deb, I did the same with Lucy's ashes, and collar too. I found a primitive, like folk painting of an Angle, with her eyes closed, holding a Beagle with her eyes closed too. Bought 2, one for my room and one for my desk. Got it on Amazon.com

Poor baby Shadow. The suffering some of these babies go thru. I can't believe it! My Lucy had her own chair with hassock (she was kind of long and the chair wasn't "deep"), and another one on the floor since her Arthritis. Two more in my bedroom. Shhh one was in the closet. 3 blankets folded on the ground, closet always left open. She was my "closet baby". Sometimes I think she just liked to be nearer to me. She had Holistic food and snacks, heart support Vits. and 1 a day fish oil. Ate salmon and eggs, too twice a week.

I am not big on pictures at all. Don't even know how to take picture with my phone. Lucy was one of those very pretty Beagles, and black eye liner all around her eyes. She was almost bred to death by her previous owners, then dumped in the SPCA. They probably continued on with one of her babies. Money ... I am older... I WISH I had one. I might. Have to look thru my old pictures from back in PA. Do you have any of Shadow? What a misnomer they named him. CHAINING him in the back yard. Shadow. Swell... poor baby. He obviously wanted to bond and be close to his Alpha figure.
Pearls - - at the feet of swine!! Bet he wouldn't have done THAT to them!
I miss my friend ...

You won't have a time when you look at the urn and not miss little Lucy. I still miss Shadow and he died 5 years ago. But at the same time I look at his urn and remember all the good times, not the day he died.

I'm trying - hard. Thanks for everything Deb. I have a friend in Canada, went thru a divorce, etc.
He said he loved "Beans" his cat SO much that his death DEVASTATED him. He will not get another pet
so he won't have to go thru THAT again.
I told him he could "save a life"... get a middle aged cat ... he won't.

Oh, Joni, so sorry about your loss but if it helps at all she hurts no more.

Thanks Packy. Yes that helps. All previous pets left me from nature - God, illnesses. NONE from any negligence
from a "husband". That hurts the most - totally unnecessary!! The Vets said, if she were younger, she could have survived this. Being a Caregiver - and of one with MENTAL problems also, surely affects the Caregiver and their thinking and choices. I have friends in the same situation and see it in them - myself.

I have been keeping "Schtum!"... but have for several weeks been worried about LBC (Little Black Cat)

She has a small lump on the side of her stomach... she is a bit "feral"... wont sit on people's laps or allow herself to be picked up...so I have not been able to inspect it properly... though she is smoochie for what SHE likes.... often here lying in front of keyboard... so I can feel it while stroking her. She seemed to be in perfect health, though she did not like me trying to touch this lump. Not easy to take her to the vet (wife has car at work) and the cat HATES being caged ... with a passion... so been putting it off... but today, my wife is home and so took cat to vet.... and the diagnosis is... sebaceous cyst... HARMLESS (mostly).

My vet ( used same one for 30+ years)... does dispense proper medicines... but is also an advocate for "Homeopathic" cures. I have joshed with him about it for 30 years... I refer to it as "Homeopathetic Medicine"...

However, I have tried his stuff (as well as proper antibiotics etc) on the cats. Seems to me he ALWAYS prescribes tiny silica tablets (which you crush and add to food)... and that is what he says will help this cyst? I'll give it a go..... though over 30 years we have built up a large stockpile of these little tabs... possibly "cornered the market". I believe, if it does anything, it helps dry things up... so prescribed after wounds or surgery. It was also prescribed when we had a cat with broken tail bone... and now it's prescribed to help dry up this cyst... MARVELLOUS stuff... if it works


So..... LBC is Ok to quote the Vet... her health is "Superb"

Have given vet a small sack of money for his evaluation and diagnosis and all is ok now

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LBC - After the Vet... planning her revenge!

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SO GLAD LBC will be ok.

I think we should feed them the BEST food we can find. I know it halted Lucy's lump. Before, on the other side, it was cancer.
When I found another one, hurried to a new Holistic Vet.
Just like with us, healthy food will help us!! It doesn't cost that much more...
Lilly gets Honest Kitchen dehydrated veg. food, and gets some good canned meat or fish, and some fish oil and a one a day supplemental tablet. She is wonderfully healthy and very alert/bright!!
When I first started Lucy (who was 15 or so) on this new diet... for the first time, she lowered her front as if to say to me ...
'HEY - WANNA PLAY?' She had never done that before, ever. I got her when 3. Was bred and bred and bred and bred then dumped into the SPCA where she found "me".