OT: Sad day

[minipol]

I feel your loss Atrocities.
I also had something bad happening to me regarding pets.
A coworker's cat had produced offspring. Yeeha, kittens for me, i shouted
My girlfriend (now my wife) wanted cats too so we went over to his house to pick 2 kittens.
After a year, i suddenly could breath. This happened at 4 am and i was scared like hell. I got a puffer (don't know if this is the correct word, it's such an inhaling thingie) for my lungs and it was a bit better but not much. They tested my blood and i suddenly was allergic to cats. My whole life I had cats and now i can't even touch them or bingo. I like all pets but cats have such funny personalities.
Nobody we knew and trusted wanted to take our 2 cats so we had to do them to an animal shelter.
That hurts like hell especially since the people over there don't believe you since a lot of people lie to them and say they are allergic.

To this day my wife and i wonder how they are. Luckily after 2 weeks they where both adopted.

[Slynky]

Yeah, Minipol, same thing happened to me.

32 years old after practically a whole life with cats, I started having asthma attacks. Doctors finally discovered it was cats, dogs, and a few other things.

For 4 years, I took shots to "get used" to them. Cat scratches still turn red as heck and itch like crazy. And sometimes I forget after petting ours and rub my eyes (that's bad), but they don't affect my breathing any more and I got to keep them.

The Siamese ("Rat") cat I had for so long traveled with me in the army as I moved around. He racked up 25,000 miles in the air. What a trooper!

[Mikeyman]

After a year, i suddenly could breath.

Could breathe? Since when haven't you been breathing, minipol?

[minipol]

Originally posted by mikeyman:

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After a year, i suddenly could breath.

Could breathe? Since when haven't you been breathing, minipol?

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Aaarrggh. zpelink again. hehe, i obviously meant: "i suddenly could breath better"

[minipol]

Originally posted by Slynky:
Cat scratches still turn red as heck and itch like crazy. And sometimes I forget after petting ours and rub my eyes (that's bad), but they don't affect my breathing any more and I got to keep them.

Yeah, when my cats scratched me, the scratches were turning red also and indeed it itches enourmously. I heard that you could take shots to get used to them. I would like that also but 4 years of shots? wow, you are the champ slynky!

[Taera]

let me tell you something about cats, their tailons all have some poison under them - so EVERY scratch will hurt.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Taera, really? or are you joking?

[dbt1949]

[Slynky]

Originally posted by dbt1949:

[Taera]

no narf, im not joking. ive read about it in some book about cats.
EDIT: its not a deadly poison or anysuch, it just irritates the scratch more

[ August 17, 2003, 08:41: Message edited by: Taera ]