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Goodbye Kuroneko. It's Been a Privilege. [1]

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Date: 2025-06-12

My Kuroneko is gone. My friend for the last 18 plus years has finally left this world to chase birds in a hypothetical afterlife. It wasn’t sudden, I’ve known this day was coming for quite a while now. She was mostly blind and suffering greatly with the calcified mass we found in her intestine three years ago. It got to the point at which no amount of medication, probiotics or water could push her own waste past the blockage and it really hurt her, causing her to scream surprisingly loudly for a five pound cat.

She was born on April 13, 2007 and came to me in the first part of June that same year. She was a tiny cat with a huge personality. She used to sit on my old CRT monitor while I hammered out political opinions and manifestos, allowing her tail to drape in front of the monitor. It was a game we played when we were both younger and haler. We’ve had health scares, we got evicted from our home of 16 years because I tried to sue my landlord for illegally towing my car and we also had so many good times. The “don’t touch me game”, the afternoon zoomies and her randomly jumping up on my shoulder to visit for a while.

Neko in both my and her favorite spot

She would get me up at 6:00am sharp, (even this morning!) and would sit on the foot of my bed every night at 9:00pm waiting for me to crawl in beside her. I would have moved heaven and Earth for my cat but in the end nothing I could do could fix her. She was mostly blind but was adapting to it pretty well but then the calcification reared it's bony mass. It got to where she couldn’t pass any waste and had a really bad time today. I had to come to the conclusion that I was causing her to suffer greatly for my own benefit so I made the appointment.

The weather in San Antonio is unusually rainy today so it seems like even the sky is in mourning. I know that I’m not alone in this experience, hell this isn’t even my first rodeo. It’s what we agree to when we let the cute kitten or playful puppy into our lives. We all know that it’s coming but we open our hearts and let them occupy a spot close to the center and we don’t worry about what is inevitably coming in the future. Right now there ‘s such an enormous void where she used to be yet somehow my heart keeps hammering away. I’ll survive. Once again, I’ll let this friend go as I have so many others but right now I can’t imagine how.

Give your animal friends your love and remember, we are so privileged when they allow us to share their lives. I’ll miss the claw marks on my shoulders when you latched on to stabilize yourself. I’ll miss the loud purring right next to my head that meant that you were where you wanted to be. I’ll even miss the early morning wake up calls and just being with you close by. Goodbye, my best friend. Wait for me at Lakeview.

Update

Thanks everyone. I’m just still broken right now so I’m not much of a conversationist but I’m reading all of the comments. ❤️

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