Purrs In Our Hearts - Cat Forum UK
In Loving Memory Cats => Rainbow Bridge - In Loving Memory => Topic started by: moira on June 12, 2010, 00:17:42 AM
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It is with the heaviest of hearts that I am writing this. I had to let Truman go this evening. He was a bit off his food and distant yesterday. I hoped it was just a bit of a tummy upset – he had had a couple of those over the past few months but always came round like the trooper he was. It wasn’t to be this time, though. When I got back from work this evening, about 7, he was up and walking around so I thought he was going to be OK. I had bought him some special food as a treat – Iams wet for seniors – and he ate a little of it. I took him downstairs as it was quite warm and he hadn’t been outside this season yet. I sat on a garden chair with him on my lap and he cuddled in. I then took him back upstairs, put him on the bed and went downstairs to feed the others and have my own tea. When I went up to see him again an hour later and he was sprawled out across the bed – he never lay like that, always curled up or crouched, so I knew this was it. He was struggling to get up and crying. I called the vet straight away and she came out within half an hour. I stroked him and talked softly to him while he slipped away, lying on my bed where he has spent most of the past 15 months. The vet took him away, wrapped in his blanket. She asked if I wanted his ashes but I said no, that the best of him would be with me always. In 20 years I have had to let so many go to the Bridge but I thought with Truman it wouldn’t be so hard – he was living on borrowed time, after all. Not so. This is the hardest yet. Perhaps because he wasn’t expected to live very long at the beginning as time went by it seemed like he would live forever. He was old, blind, had a nasty ulcerated cyst on his neck and was scraggy with the muscle wastage to his hind quarters but he was the most beautiful cat I have ever had and he was greatly loved. The strangest thing, my son, Christopher, stayed with him while I went downstairs to let the vet in. He said to me later that Truman had looked up at him and, for a moment, looked like a young cat. I’d like to think that he is now at the Rainbow Bridge, young and whole again.
Play hard at the Bridge, little man.
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I am so terribly sorry - you gave him the most wonderful time with you and i am sure he is at the bridge a young man again and free from illness and pain .
RIP Trueman - you will be greatly missed by so many of your fans and admirers.
:hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: Moira
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I am so sorry to hear this, what a wonderful old boy Truman was. He defied those who condemned him so long ago and your TLC kept him happy until the end of his life :hug: :hug:
RIP Truman, play hard on the Bridge, you have left a paw print in so many hearts.
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Awww, Moira I'm so sorry. I remember you adopting him and what a lovely old boy he was :hug:
God Bless sweet Truman xxxx
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so sorry to hear this rip truman
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He was such a special man, Moira. I'm so sorry for your loss, and I think that belief he's young and healthy again is a good one to have. :care:
RIP Truman.
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I will never forget the way you stepped in and offered a loving home for Truman, Moira, and I am so glad you were rewarded by being able to care for him in every sense of the word, to the end of his days
he sure was one special little cat
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So sorry. :hug: As others have said, he was a special little man and you gave him a wonderful home to live out the rest of his days in.
Karen
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Thanks, all, for your good wishes.
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I am so sorry to read this Moira, with your wonderful love and care I always thought Truman was one of those cats who would just live forever. :Luv2: :Luv2:
Would it be alright to name Miaow Miaow's male kitten after your wonderful boy? as a tribute to a very special cat. :hug: :hug:
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Awww, I'm sorry hun :hug: :hug:
RIP darling Truman xxx
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Lesley it would be wonderful for Miaow Miaow's kitten to be called Truman Jnr. Thank you for thinking of it. Does that make me his Godmother :)
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So very sorry to hear this Moira, you gave him the greatest gift throughout his time with you and at the end too :hug:
He'll be safe and sound at the Bridge by now, just as you son saw him :hug:
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Lesley it would be wonderful for Miaow Miaow's kitten to be called Truman Jnr. Thank you for thinking of it. Does that make me his Godmother :)
Most definitely his fairy godmother :Luv2: :Luv2:
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Moira Trueman worked his way in to a lot of hearts on the forum and stole yours cause you were his Mum - you gave him more in the last year of his life than perhaps he had ever had and he stayed that bit longer on borrowed time so you would have some wonderful memories to treasure forever - thankyou for sharing your speical boy with us :hug: :hug:
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So sorry moira, he was a really special old man :( :hug: :hug:
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So very sorry Moira - it is thanks to your love and devotion that Truman had 15 wonderful months with you, he knew more love and TLC in those 15 months than he probably did his whole life before he found you. He was such a special brave boy xxx
RIP sweet Truman - have fun at the Bridge special boy xxx
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So very sorry Moira:
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He’s in a better place right now
Than he’s ever been before;
All pain is gone; he is now at rest;
Nothing troubles him anymore.
It’s we who feel the burden of
Our sadness and our grief;.
We have to cry, to mourn our loss,
Before we get relief.
We know we’ll reconnect with him
At the end of each life’s road;
We’ll see his cherished face again
When we release our earthly load.
:RIP: :candle: :RIP: :candle:
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Thanks again all, and for the lovely poem, Yvonne. Truman was, indeed, a Purrs cat and, for me, what Purrs is all about - giving the most needy , the 'least rehomable' a chance that they otherwise would be unlikely to get. Truman was the sterotypically 'least rehomable' cat you could imagine but he was, and remained until his final hour, a happy little ray of sunshine who enjoyed life and gave far more than he took.
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(http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj298/plasbach36/03032009032-1.jpg)
here's Truman just after he was found roaming the streets of Bristol, quite blind
but I think he has an alert air about him, as if he can hear you, Moira, coming to his rescue
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As I have only recently come back to Purrs I had only just recently read Truman's story and it touched my heart. I'm verry sorry to hear this sad news Moira but am just so happy that he was able to feel love for a littlw while before I had to go to the bridge. What your son said actually brought tears to my eyes :Luv:
RIP Truman xxxx
Hugs Moira xoxo
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Sorry Moira,
You can tell by how you wrote about him, how much he was loved - and he knew it. :care:
He sounds like he was a lovely old boy :)
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Oh Moira :( He got a second chance from you and Im sure he was greatfull for every minute of that :hug:
RIP Truman xxx
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Trigger, I remember the first time I saw that picture. I fell in love with him then and there was no way, if I could help it, he was going to die alone and unloved just because he was old. You're right, he was always very very alert and the day I picked him up he purred and cuddled into me and his whole demeanour said 'I'm so happy to see you. I've been waiting for you to take me home, lets go'.
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Oh Moira, I've only just read this - I'm so sorry to hear about Truman, he was a lovely boy :hug:
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Moira, I have just read this, I am so very sorry :hug: :hug:
RIP Truman, you were loved by many :hug:
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Moira, am so very sorry that you had to let Truman go. I thought he would go on forever :'( He was a wonderful, determined character and very lucky to have found you.