My Raider is gone

**fly07sti** · 08-22-2021, 06:15 PM

Sorry for your loss Monica.

**DetailKitty** · 08-22-2021, 06:22 PM

Thx again everyone.
We all seem to be a community that has plenty of fur kids… I knew you’d all understand.

**PaulMys** · 08-22-2021, 06:42 PM

Originally Posted by DetailKitty

Thx again everyone.
We all seem to be a community that has plenty of fur kids… I knew you’d all understand.

Absolutely.

One day in the future, when you feel up for it, I think we'd all love to hear the story of Raider's life.

**DetailKitty** · 08-22-2021, 06:54 PM

A quick story…

I remember the day I met him.
A coworker had told me about a kitten he had that was, “becoming aggressive to the other cats in the house” and that he may have to re-home him.
At the time I was thinking of getting a cat so I told him I’d take him. He told me to come by and take a look.

When I came to his house he told me he had just given the kitty catnip so he was pretty “wired”.
Wired was an understatement. My coworker led me to the basement where he was and opened the door…
This little kitty was basically bouncing off the walls. He was crazy!

I just turned to my coworker and told him I’d take him home.
At the time his name was Shadow. For me that just didn’t work. What was a good name for a little crazy black cat?
And then I thought of the Oakland Raiders… just made sense

**VISITOR** · 08-22-2021, 08:18 PM

monica, i'm sorry to hear about your loss. he definitely lived a long life and you gave him the best any pet could ever ask for. keep that in your memories as i'm sure he did as well.

**Meghan** · 08-23-2021, 08:55 AM

That is the worse feeling ever, very sorry for your loss.

**2black1s** · 08-23-2021, 11:02 AM

Originally Posted by DetailKitty

A quick story…

I remember the day I met him.
A coworker had told me about a kitten he had that was, “becoming aggressive to the other cats in the house” and that he may have to re-home him.
At the time I was thinking of getting a cat so I told him I’d take him. He told me to come by and take a look.

When I came to his house he told me he had just given the kitty catnip so he was pretty “wired”.
Wired was an understatement. My coworker led me to the basement where he was and opened the door…
This little kitty was basically bouncing off the walls. He was crazy!

I just turned to my coworker and told him I’d take him home.
At the time his name was Shadow. For me that just didn’t work. What was a good name for a little crazy black cat?
And then I thought of the Oakland Raiders… just made sense

I hope you don't mind me sharing a great pet name story too... One of my two current dogs is named Pete.

The day my daughter and I got him from a shelter we were driving home. My daughter was driving and the puppy was in my lap. On the ride home we were discussing names and settled on Pete. My daughter's name is Hanna. You may be asking, what does "Hanna's" name have to do with this? Read on.

Once home, I was looking at all of the paperwork. To my surprise, the name of the attending vet that examined the puppy and signed-off on the documentation was "Peter Hannah".

How coincidental is that?

My daughter "Hanna" and I had settled on the name "Pete" for the puppy and we later found out the attending vet's name was "Peter Hannah".

**Hammer77** · 08-23-2021, 11:17 AM

Sorry to read this sad news, condolences DK!

**Jim w** · 08-23-2021, 03:46 PM

Monica sorry for your loss sad news.

**Eldorado2k** · 08-23-2021, 05:39 PM

I’m sorry for your loss.

I feel for you:3
At least you know you did a heck of a job making him last that 20yr. milestone which is known amongst us cat people as that rare air where only the best taken care of cats get to make it to. You gave that cat a damn good life!!!

Gave love, and got love in return. That’s the most each could ask for and you both deserved it.

Not all kitties have it so good.