{"id":41233,"date":"2008-06-25T00:43:09","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T05:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=41233"},"modified":"2015-06-04T00:43:37","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T05:43:37","slug":"new-kitty-needs-to-be-put-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/new-kitty-needs-to-be-put-down\/","title":{"rendered":"New Kitty needs to be put down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I need to take\u00a0New Kitty to be put down.\u00a0 I can tell he is a very old kitty and he requires a lot of attention.\u00a0 When I am just sitting, he wants to sit all over me and when I am sleeping he is walking on me and getting his face right in my face.\u00a0 Then he does the patty paw thing and slobbers. He eats ok, he knows to go out by himself and to come back in, the cats are tolerating him, he sleeps most of the time on the chair in the living room.\u00a0 He sneezes which makes me think he may have a respiratory bug that I don&#8217;t want anyone else to catch.\u00a0 Mostly though he is a many-times-daily-reminder of Danny Gaude, a longtime friend I&#8217;ve known since I was a kid, who passed May 19th.\u00a0 He was the closest thing to a brother I had until my own brother reappeared suddenly after 37 years in 2003.\u00a0 I feel the loss acutely and the cat is a reminder.\u00a0 I have asked several friends if they would like him, but each wants a younger cat to grow up with, and I don&#8217;t blame them.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I am conflicted and my heart is heavy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/new-kitty-needs-to-be-put-down\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=New Kitty needs to be put down&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/new-kitty-needs-to-be-put-down\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/new-kitty-needs-to-be-put-down\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/new-kitty-needs-to-be-put-down\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=New%20Kitty%20needs%20to%20be%20put%20down&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/new-kitty-needs-to-be-put-down\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I need to take\u00a0New Kitty to be put down.\u00a0 I can tell he is a very old kitty and he requires a lot of attention.\u00a0 When I am just sitting, he wants to sit all over me and when I am sleeping he is walking on me and getting his face right in my face.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41234,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41233\/revisions\/41234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}