Sorry Red. So brutal, but it sounds like Mose had a helluva good ride and you know it’s time

Been thinking about you today, RED.
Even that little bit's tough.

My current three legged 8 year old cat , Skippy. Indoor outdoor cat. Has his claws. Loves bisque. Loves to visit me while I’m shitting

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As have I.




RED, I've had to schedule it once. The phone call to schedule it was worse for me than the procedure, which likely is not the same for everyone and it surprised me.


Knowing it's time may not make it easier, but knowing that it was the right decision did help me a bit.


It looked like Mose had a good life. I'm sorry.

tldr: so much to you all

until at least April....but we take him out to weigh him every two weeks...have to make sure they're ok....they're not completely asleep all of the time....it's like being half awake/half asleep, but they have to do it for some reason lol

Tommy was born in 2012 in The Bronx. He was the size of a quarter when the woman who bought him at a Dollar Store brought him home along with his sister. Her daughter was a little rough with him so she gave him to her best friend who I recently married. We took him to Canada in 2018 and a year or so later I picked up a wife for him from a Turtle rescue center just outside Toronto. They are both Yellow Bellied Sliders. In 2021 we moved them both to Florida and they are very happy living in their tub in the screened in porch getting weather they were meant to live in. Tina (Tommy's wife) has laid eggs a few times but nothing ever hatched. I think Tommy lived alone too long and I have never seen him actually mount her.

He has gotten a lot bigger in the last few years. In 2018 he fit in the palm of my hand. Now he easily covers my whole hand (and I'm pretty sure my hands are bigger than Trump's!)

I had a YouTube channel for awhile with over 2,000 subs but stopped updating a few years back. This was all during the pandemic so if you find it (I just looked back at some videos for the first time in a long long time and can't believe I was doing such stupid voices) keep in mind I was living alone (wife is American and got to move before me) in Northern Ontario and Canada had some of the stupidest and most restrictive rules in the world at the time. No longer active but you can still find [at]TommyMcTurtleson on YouTube. Check out "The McTurtlesons Cover The Turtles for @Nicole Foti" or "Tommy & Tina's Wedding" to see how far gone I went.

Watching brother's dog while they're away:

Wow!

My wife brought two red eared sliders home from work from somebody who had several he was trying to find homes for. One died a few months later the day we were leaving on vacation. We buried him just before pulling out of the driveway. Our son cried almost non-stop for the first two days of vacation. At our first meal stop, he declared it "the worst day ever" and didn't take a bite of his burger--a first and probably last.

Re: their growing. We read somewhere that they grow to the size of their aquarium (or whatever). May be an old wives' tale, but we kept getting bigger and bigger aquariums until we said "this is it!" Thankfully he hasn't grown noticeably bigger since.

I'm going to make a point to check out YT for you guys when I get a chance!

He looks right at home. Who is watching who?

A little bit of both, Tom.

i completely understand if you want to fast forward and hold no ill will if you do

looks like an incredible amount of energy pent up and waiting to burst
and i would welcome all of it into my heart at the current moment

RED... post whatever you want.

This.

Your posts never fail to be worthwhile reading.

thank you Randall, this wrecked me in an almost perfect way

and now i'm done and dusted

RED,

I'm here for you broseph.

At least one of us in the house is happy about the cold weather!

But good god almighty at all those stockings. I've never seen that many on one fireplace. Are you and grandma hosting that many people for Christmas?

Haha, no, but she did make all of those with her very own hands.

Awesome! An old school grandmother. The best kind!

Merry Christmas to you guys!

Is that a very small fireplace, or a very large cat?

Looks like a fat cat

You think that one's fat, you should see the other one!

I don't think it's a small fireplace. Use the bricks to scale the cat, they're normal sized bricks, lol.