It's these unique memories that become extra sad once your pet passes. This probably won't happen with another cat, so you will forever remember this as one of the defining things they did forever.

[–] DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 25 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

My old cat Benji was the sweetest boy. We had him for his nine last years before he died at almost 17.

One of the things he'd do was sit on my chest, purring like a lunatic at bedtime. I'd read my book while he got as close to my face as he could, damn near drooling he was so happy. We called that Belly Time, and it was a genuine high point of my day.

We've had our current cats for two years, and neither of them have any interest in doing that. It's been four years since we lost Benji, but I still miss it almost every night.

[–] christian@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 hours ago

I had a cat who liked to be cradled like a baby and I want that back so much. I would do it some with the boy we got after, but I kind of knew that was more for me and he was just tolerating it.

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