So, my hillbilly girlfriend's cat dies last night.

This is an awful story, so please treat it as such in the replies. Everything I will ever type here is completely true.

I am 49, 50 in December. As I type this the tabletop is wet from my arms. The top of my computer is wet from my wrist. I have been outside in Linwood, Michigan digging a grave in sand, it's not even clay, for a cat, and I am almost dying. I just took a break. My third. I am currently three inches below the top of the ground and I have filled up a huge tote with all of this sand and ground and I look and the tote is full and I look in the hole, grave, whatever, and it's like not even gone yet it seems. My face is wet. My arms are wet. I feel like I should just keep digging and collapse into the hole but that would be so much more work.

It's a cat. How do people do this type of stuff for a living? I don't get it.

I didn't really understand what you said but I think it was about getting emotional over losing your pet?

I am sorry to hear that but on the other hand you can fill this hole in your heart with another kitty that would need a loving home.
Get a foster mom.

fandandy said:

How do people do this type of stuff for a living? I don't get it.

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People are digging holes for a living. Somebody has to do that job too.

Also, cats come and go... I've had dozen of cats, but yeah, you get attached emotional to those that live more than a year.

what??? throw the cat in a garbage bag, hide it; wait for next pickup day, and put it in a neighbor's receptacle. Then lie your ass off.

mattvei said:

what??? throw the cat in a garbage bag, hide it; wait for next pickup day, and put it in a neighbor's receptacle. Then lie your ass off.

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with that attitude towards animals ide toss you in the bag and loose no sleep...

proxygo said:

with that attitude towards animals ide toss you in the bag and loose no sleep...

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lol the country i am in, would intentionally try to kill stray animals dogs and cats by running them over with car. For fun sake even though I agree education is important important and just in poor countries more thugs and goons arises and when people are fighting for there own food, animals become nothing. I would never do that though, i am real softie towards all feline forms, and i beileve every cat should have its owner to take care and there population should be controlled in some way.