{"id":27269,"date":"2011-03-31T02:42:01","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T06:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/27269\/barry-kittens-funeral\/"},"modified":"2011-03-31T02:42:01","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T06:42:01","slug":"barry-kittens-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/27269\/barry-kittens-funeral\/","title":{"rendered":"Barry Kitten’s Funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"

I knew I had to do this.\u00a0 Over this last week, I haven\u2019t really wanted to do it, but I thought it was going to come.\u00a0 When you\u2019re experiencing grief, there\u2019s this balancing act between not wanting to be reminded of your loss because it is too painful and finding that closure through ceremony and remembrance.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

That is why we have funerals.\u00a0 This is Barry Kitten\u2019s funeral.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Over this last week, I have not needed any reminders of Barry.\u00a0 In these first few days after his passing, every far away high pitched sound became him meowing.\u00a0 I heard him calling out.\u00a0 When I laid in bed, I physically felt his presence there with me.\u00a0 That first day, watching TV, blanket draped over me, wherein 100% of the times before, Barry would be on my lap, I felt a presence on my legs.\u00a0 Ghost kitteh?\u00a0 A spiritual echo of the kitteh on my psyche?\u00a0 I think my other cat, Bliss, felt it too.\u00a0 She has never been the kind of cat who would come lay on my lap.\u00a0 I got Barry as a kitten just a month or so after Bliss entered my life; she\u2019s about a year older.\u00a0 I got one lap.\u00a0 Barry was the lap kitty.\u00a0 That first day, 6 days ago, as I was struggling with my grief, crying, feeling this absence\/presence on my lap, Bliss came from her regular spot next to me on the bed and lay on my lap.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Animals who may not otherwise be overtly affectionate have an amazing ability to pick up on human pain and respond accordingly.\u00a0 To think that some say animals don\u2019t have emotions or empathy.\u00a0 Bliss knew exactly what I needed at that moment and responded accordingly.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

You cannot watch the video below and think that Bliss hasn\u2019t lost too.\u00a0 She may not be able to comprehend exactly what has happened, but she knows she is on her own now.\u00a0 She has lost her protector.\u00a0 In my second-to-last Barry video, I showed him squaring off against an aggressive male cat from across the street.\u00a0 Since Barry\u2019s gone, Bliss has had no feline companion to protect her from that bad tom cat from across the way.\u00a0 She\u2019s certainly gotten louder though.\u00a0 Yesterday, she got into it with that brown and whote tabby so loudly that 4 households worth of humans came streaming out of their homes to see what was the matter.\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 Bliss can be a loud bitch when she needs to be.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I find it hard for me to break my habit of focusing on the present enough to give a eulogy for Barry.\u00a0 God knows, he deserves a proper one.\u00a0 Playful. Inquisitive.\u00a0 Smart (what other cat do you know that not only could open a window, but figured out how to get around the security measures I installed to thwart him?), loving, protective, loyal, cute, loving\u2026 yeah.. There really isn\u2019t any positive cat characteristic possible that Barry didn\u2019t have.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Two or three people have already talked to me about maybe getting another cat.\u00a0 If Barry has anything negative that could be said about him, it is that he has ruined me for other cats.\u00a0 No other cat could possibly stand up to the precedent Barry has set.\u00a0 No other cat could ever be as good as Barry.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Barry was kitty heroin.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I will have other cats in my life, but he set a standard that will be impossible match.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I knew I had to do this. Over this last week, I haven\u2019t really wanted to do it, but I thought it was going to come. When you\u2019re experiencing grief, there\u2019s this balancing act between not wanting to be reminded of your loss because it is too painful and finding that closure through ceremony and remembrance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,837],"tags":[541,2566,81,69,32,2848],"class_list":["post-27269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-nature-2","tag-animals","tag-barry","tag-joko","tag-life-2","tag-love","tag-tribute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}