Greetings Fabulous Felines and Hoomans of Hivelandia and surrounding communities!

Welcome to the Caturday update for this Memorial Day weekend. I hope your holiday weekend is treating you well!

Shadow and Daisy

It is a very sad day around our place as the Hoomans ended up taking our dog Daisy to the vet one final time.

Daisy may have been a dog but she was a friend to cats as well, but she was getting very old and could not walk well anymore and have become incontinent after suffering a mild stroke, a few weeks ago.

Photo by @cosmictriage

We said a tearful goodbye because her quality of life had declined to the point that we could see nothing but confusion, pain and sadness in her eyes.

We give our furry friends the gift of love when we adopt them into our household, but at the end of the equation we end up having to give them a different gift of love... that of not letting them suffer needlessly at the end of life.

Shadow as a tiny kitten with Daisy, a few days after he arrived here

Daisy was there to greet me and serve as "surrogate mom" for me as a tiny kitten when I first arrived from the animal shelter. She was patient and gentle with me, even when I would be an unruly young cat.

We would quite often take naps together, and I particularly appreciated her during the winter months when she was nice and warm to sleep next to!

Kitten meets dog!

The house feels a little emptier without Daisy here, even though it seemed like she was "barely here" for the past 2-3 weeks.

The Hoomans have decided that there will be no more dog here, only cats from this point forward. And with Daisy now gone, it seems likely that the plans for a new kitten (or maybe two) in the house will be carried out sooner rather than later.

Napping with Daisy in the Mom-Hooman's office

And that's where we're going to leave it for this week. We'd like to think that Daisy is in a better place now, able to run free again and playing with her dog friends who have gone before her!

Fare well, Daisy! You will be missed!

Thanks for visiting our blog, and have a wonderful remainder of your weekend!

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These are some of the more active Cat Communities — why not join them ALL? Many of the allow you to share your cat posts, even if you started at a different community!

HiveCats by @curatorcat is a central "gathering place" for cat content on Hive; promoting the use of the #hivecats tag for feline content!

Cat Snaps by @manorvillemike is a place to post pictures of your cats when you don't have a whole lot to say beyond just sharing your cute photos!

Caturday by @saboin is a community where we get to celebrate posts relating to Saturday — aka "Caturday" — our own special day!

Cat Photos by @andrarchy is a "mixed use" cat content community; posts can be just photos or longer, as long as the subject is CATS!

Cats by @captainklaus (and Sissi!) is another "general" cat content community.

There are a number of other feline communities listed on Hive, but I am not sharing them for now as they have not had any activity (by their Admins OR users) since the Steem/Hive fork. Updates as they become available!

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