[quote=""fljustice""]Thanks, everyone. It's been over a week and things are settling. Our two remaining indoor cats have been particularly sweet and cuddly. Here's a pic of Momo, our youngest doing her meercat imitation.[/quote]
Awwwwww. Glad they're helping.
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The Worst Thing Today
At home with a good book and the cat...
...is the only place I want to be
...is the only place I want to be
[quote=""Madeleine""]I love the meer"cat", what a pose to strike. Does she often sit like that?[/quote]
Just enough to be cute when it happens--usually when she hears something and has to look over an obstacle. In this one, she was on the bed, heard something in the hall, and had to look over my knees (under the cover). I think this is the first time we've been able to catch her in a photo in that pose. Luckily, hubby was playing with his phone in bed and caught it.
Just enough to be cute when it happens--usually when she hears something and has to look over an obstacle. In this one, she was on the bed, heard something in the hall, and had to look over my knees (under the cover). I think this is the first time we've been able to catch her in a photo in that pose. Luckily, hubby was playing with his phone in bed and caught it.
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Re: The Worst Thing Today
This shouldn't be such a 'worst thing' -- as someone who has bred/trained/packed llamas since 1981, of course I've lost hundreds of working llamas to plain old age. But today I put down CPL! Joshua Tree, 'Josh', the last of our old commercial pack string. He had hardly any teeth left and couldn't chew his cud, so he was slowly starving to death despite his special ration.
I know it was past time--he was about 110 in llama years, and the other 4 pack-llamas of the 1995 cohort are long underground. And I believe without a doubt that God takes all his creatures back to himself and that Josh deserved his rest.
But sitting there with his sweet head in my lap, I just felt all the years of hiking down the trail with Josh at my shoulder (or his father, or his uncle), all the young packers he has mentored, all the Public-relations and speaking gigs he has done with me, and I just bawled my eyes out.
Even my vet was surprised.
I'm getting maudlin in my old age.
I know it was past time--he was about 110 in llama years, and the other 4 pack-llamas of the 1995 cohort are long underground. And I believe without a doubt that God takes all his creatures back to himself and that Josh deserved his rest.
But sitting there with his sweet head in my lap, I just felt all the years of hiking down the trail with Josh at my shoulder (or his father, or his uncle), all the young packers he has mentored, all the Public-relations and speaking gigs he has done with me, and I just bawled my eyes out.
Even my vet was surprised.
I'm getting maudlin in my old age.
Re: The Worst Thing Today
MLE (Emily Cotton) wrote:This shouldn't be such a 'worst thing' -- as someone who has bred/trained/packed llamas since 1981, of course I've lost hundreds of working llamas to plain old age. But today I put down CPL! Joshua Tree, 'Josh', the last of our old commercial pack string. He had hardly any teeth left and couldn't chew his cud, so he was slowly starving to death despite his special ration.
I know it was past time--he was about 110 in llama years, and the other 4 pack-llamas of the 1995 cohort are long underground. And I believe without a doubt that God takes all his creatures back to himself and that Josh deserved his rest.
But sitting there with his sweet head in my lap, I just felt all the years of hiking down the trail with Josh at my shoulder (or his father, or his uncle), all the young packers he has mentored, all the Public-relations and speaking gigs he has done with me, and I just bawled my eyes out.
Even my vet was surprised.
I'm getting maudlin in my old age.
*hugs*
You did the right thing. I know it's hard to make that decision.
At home with a good book and the cat...
...is the only place I want to be
...is the only place I want to be
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Re: The Worst Thing Today
Thanks, Misfit. I knew this was coming--in fact, when I put it off a month so he could once more be the magi 'camel' in the local church's nativity play, I actually felt guilty waiting, because he was (underneath all the wool) just a rack of bones.Misfit wrote: *hugs*
You did the right thing. I know it's hard to make that decision.
Josh and the pack llamas represented the whole middle section of my life. I still have a few, but they don't know and trust me like the ones I worked with so frequently. The packers of the 90s and 2000s were my friends; the ones my friend and I share now are merely acquaintances.
Oh dear, getting sniffly again.
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Re: The Worst Thing Today
So sorry to hear about your llama MLE, it sounds like he had a lovely long life with you, and was a real character.
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Re: The Worst Thing Today
Sorry about Josh, MLE. Our animals are like part of the family so can understand your distress. At least you know he had a loving home with you.
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