RIP CJ
CJ died last year. She was not the world's best cat; she wasn't very affectionate, she refused to let you tickle her tummy or chin, she wouldn't sit on your lap. She was basically an eating, shitting refusenik. She went massively downhill last year and then we found her dead on the kitchen floor one morning. We put her in a cardboard box and the kids wrote a farewell message to her and the following evening it was my job to bury her.

We live in Suffolk and the soil here is about six to ten inches before you hit a near impregnable chalk layer. I was in no mood to break that layer, so ten inches was as good as it got. As the rest of the family were bawling their eyes out, I dug the hole. Cat in blanket, check. Farewell letters, check. As the first shovel of soil was heaped on to our dear departed moggie, the wife led the kids inside, to begin the long process of coming to terms with the departure of our beloved pet.

I could then hear the kids asking their mother if they could have some new cats, despite CJ's sister, BJ, still being alive. I muttered some sort of comment to my cat (I got them both from the animal shelter 12 years previously) and started to stamp the freshly dug earth down.

It was at this point that CJ proceeded to meow with every downwards stamp. I think she was dead. Pretty sure. Well, she's dead now.



(She was most definitely dead, but for that split second there I did wonder)
(mersault, Thu 31 Jan 2013, 23:18, 4 replies)

Ah
'Aujourd'hui, C.J. est mort. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas.'
(roysin, Thu 31 Jan 2013, 23:37, closed)

BJ?
Do you let the kids call her in at night?
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 31 Jan 2013, 23:49, closed)

haha
Nice one. This was the name she was given when I collected them from the animal shelter.
(mersault, Sun 3 Feb 2013, 20:12, closed)

I feel your sense of dread - having put a few animals in the ground now. But....
You are Stephen King. AICM$5P
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Fri 1 Feb 2013, 0:03, closed)