Our animal friends

[Aerows]

I have a cat that I swear saved my life. I was depressed, but she livened up my life in ways that you cannot imagine. She jumped in my lap one day, and won my heart.

I love her so much because she was a method towards me loving myself again. It is amazing how our animal friends can heal us when we can't heal ourselves. I will always be blessed that I had a cat that did so.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Animals really are our best friends.

My cats are love wrapped in fur. Don't know what I'd do without them.

[Aerows]

4. Mine is love wrapped in fur

She's not the prettiest cat in the world, but she is for certain the dearest and the sweetest

[Aerows]

34. And is the fiercest huntress

I've ever seen. She caught 8 voles in one day. I just don't know what to do with the kitten when she isn't patrolling the garden. Eight of them. Displayed for my viewing so that they didn't eat the collards, cucumbers and tomatoes.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Yes, I think I am doing better since we got kittehs again. :^)

[darkangel218]

3. I feed 5 stray cats at work now

2 adult females and 3 baby kittens x I love animals so much, and cats in particular are amazing creatures! I don't own any due to the living situation, but I can't wait to get a bigger place, i will take all 5 of em. I would post a pic of them but I don't know how ( maybe someone can tell me how to )

[Aerows]

5. If you have a phone you can

or if you have a digital camera...I know that's a tall order on a budget, though. I love my cat.

[darkangel218]

6. I have the pics on my phone, i just dont know how to post them here

In the forum. I'm still new to DU

[Aerows]

7. plug your phone in

Then look for a folder called "DCIM". That's usually where photos are on standard phones

[darkangel218]

8. Im on my cell right now, how do i post it?

[darkangel218]

11. Okay i read the Help forum, i need to have the pics web published

I'm sorry I went off topic! X

[Aerows]

13. What kind of phone do you have?

Android or iPhone? That will determine where the photos are located. I'll be glad to help

[Aerows]

19. No problem

We are generally helpful around here

[Siwsan]

9. These are my 'rescue' buddies

The tuxedo is Sophie Stinky Toes and the Tortie is Boudicca

[Aerows]

14. both of mine are tabbies

One is long haired, the other is short haired. My short haired tabby does weird things like stick all of her feet in the water dish.

[blondie58]

10. cats are the best animalsii

And so smart. The ONLY animal that is self domesticated.

I am glad that you have that love in your life.

[elfin]

12. My Westie saved me from severe depressive grief

After my dear husband's death.

When he departed, thought I would not recover. Then another rescue Westie pup made me laugh again.

Still makes me get up and go and laugh at least once a day after 13 years.

Dread that terrible day of loss, but treasure each moment of a warm pup on my lap and a spirited companion. Means the world. So much so, I shape my daily life around being a good "parent."

[Aerows]

15. I was horribly depressed

And this tabby cat came along and brightened up my day. She's one of the best friends I've ever had

She was starving to death, too. I feel horrible that any animal can be as hungry as that poor soul could. She jumped in my lap, though, when I put out some food for her to eat, and she became my buddy.

[MuseRider]

16. She knew you needed her

and that she needed you. Funny how that happens. They are so smart and such good creatures. I bet she would say the same thing about you.

[Aerows]

21. You know, it's exactly like that

What is the best gift that you give a lonely soul? Another lonely soul. We kind of matched. She's fat now, after weighing next to nothing, and I'm a lot happier.

Funny how life works, isn't it?

[MuseRider]

22. Been there.

Nothing like unconditional love when you are unloved, lonely and hungry.

Every creature deserves to feel love, both to give it and to receive it.

[Aerows]

23. She was this ratty little tabby cat

That was so starved. I fell in love with her when she leaped into my lap when I had the kindness to feed her.

How can you not feed a creature that is so thin you can practically look through them? She acted like I was the best person on the planet because I fed her.

[MuseRider]

25. She was right. :-) n/t

[Siwsan]

18. Mine were rescued from the tiny house of a drug addicted hoarder

The house was filthy, piled to the ceiling with junk, and there was one, narrow, cluttered path running through the house. When Sophie (the first one rescued) first arrived, all she wanted to do was stretch, her full length, and PULL herself across the carpet from one end of the house to the other. She had never, in her young life (she was still a kitten) ever had room to stretch.

For the longest time, every time I fell asleep she would scream and JUMP on me. Very disconcerting. Thankfully, she's gotten over that one. I wonder if it had something to do with her previous owner passing out for extreme lengths of time. Maybe she was afraid I'd forget to feed her, too.

[flvegan]

17. Part of the reason why I don't eat them.

Any of them.

[Aerows]

31. I don't eat cats

But I still eat critters. I lived with a vegan, and tried it out. I lost so much weight I was a rail. Ironically, it was also in Florida LOL. The peanut butter "ribs" were the last straw.

[flvegan]

36. Embracing nutrition might help.

Irony aside.

[hifiguy]

20. I would not be typing this were it

not for my dear late Max. Several years ago the only reason I didn't lie down on the railroad tracks, so to speak, was I was so concerned about what would happen to him. I was having a horrible major depressive spisode, the worst of my life, but he was there always.

He would sit with me and purr and purr, trying to make me feel better, always staying close.

I have loved my cats more than any human being I have ever known. Critters are the best.

[Aerows]

29. I love Roma like that

She's just the best. Friendly, feisty and ferocious when I do something as simple as throw a ball in the yard for her. I can't help but smile when she catches it and returns it - which doesn't happen often. I cannot seem to teach her to fetch like other cats I've had LOL. I think she's playing me most of the time.

[applegrove]

24. I have a cat that saved my life three times in 2 years.

[Aerows]

27. Mine did

For certain. I was so depressed, I didn't think there was much worth living for until she came along. She is just a plain joy in my life. I throw a ball in the yard and she runs for it and it makes me smile like an idiot LOL. I didn't think something so simple as throwing a ball for a cat to catch could make me happy, but it does.

[Stinky The Clown]

26. The stories of our pets' unconditional love for us are legion.

The picture here, in another thread, just a few days ago, of the homeless man sleeping with his dog tells a small part of the story.

I only wish we, as a species, returned it.

[Aerows]

28. Without our animal friends

I think a good many of us would be lost. I loved my dog, now I love my cat. You just can't find anything more faithful than those that CHOOSE you.

[Care Acutely]

30. Oh God yes. I call one of my cats my therapy cat

for a reason.

Another one is called "Dr. Jack" because he is the first to hone in on a physical ailment too. I treasure my kitty companions.


I'm so glad your girl was there for you too.

[Aerows]

35. She has been

She's a great kitten.

[Fumesucker]

32. Yep, here are my animal friends..

They are both in my lap right now..

[Aerows]

33. Awww!

They are beautiful! Glad you have some furry friends in your life

[HeiressofBickworth]

37. One of our 4 cats is a climber

She is 2 years old, very assertive and inquisitive (until the doorbell rings). She even fetches toys to initiate play. However, she does have a bit of the killer in her. The first time she tried to kill us, she got behind the dryer and managed to flip the unused gas switch -- we heard the sound of escaping gas and got it stopped and duct-tapped down before the house blew up. The second time she tried to kill was when she was in the rafters in the garage over my desk area. She somehow managed to flip a huge snowboard down right behind me, narrowly averting a blow to the head. Otherwise, she is a lovely cat, right? Right?