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Heidi at the vet with Elwood on his final day.

How to Know When to Put Your Cat Down

November 1, 2024 by Heidi Bender

It’s been 11 days since we had Elwood euthanized. He had kidney disease. Since then, I’ve wondered if we waited too long to have him …

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Cat Elwood in the sun on the left. Three cats in the sun on the right.

Elwood, My Cat With Kidney Disease Died

November 1, 2024October 23, 2024 by Heidi Bender

When I wrote about the hardest part of having a cat five days ago, I didn’t know we would say goodbye to Elwood just three …

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Woman holding a skinny cat on her chest with another cat sleeping on the couch behind them.

The Hardest Part of Owning a Cat

November 8, 2024October 18, 2024 by Heidi Bender

I love cats and enjoy living with them. They are my favorite. And then the hard part comes. Their fur begins to not look so …

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Cat lady crying while holding a cat

Grieving the Loss of a Cat from the Heart of a Cat Lady

January 31, 2025January 11, 2023 by Heidi Bender

How you grieve the loss of your cat will not be the same for everyone. For the cats I lost, the way I felt when …

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Black Cat Close Up

The Cat Died: What Happened to Midnight

August 12, 2022May 13, 2022 by Heidi Bender

My cat, Midnight, died on May 2, 2022. I’ll share a bit of my life with Midnight over about four years before sharing about his …

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my cat that died

My Outdoor Cat Died: Charcoal’s story

May 13, 2022February 2, 2022 by Heidi Bender

My outdoor cat died at the end of January 2021. His name was Charcoal. While I called Charcoal my cat, he was a community cat …

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Calico cat sitting on a desk chair

Watching my old cat slowly decline until her eventual death

February 2, 2022January 15, 2021 by Heidi Bender

My cat Lina, age 17, died last week on January 7, 2021. The experience with Lina’s declining health was much different than when her littermate …

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The day my cat died: What happened?

February 2, 2022May 3, 2019 by Heidi Bender

I didn’t know that Monday morning (April 8, 2019) would be Kilala’s last morning. That morning upon waking, Kilala was in the basement on a …

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