CyBorg

Whenever the topic of ANY gun control is mentioned, right-wingers on Yahoo! seem only capable of slinging insults. You're a "communist," "Nazi," etc. if you do not agree with them.

I am not saying that those on the left don't insult. They do and it is just as wrong.

But how does calling someone who just disagrees with you "libtard," "libturd," "teabagger," "Rethuglican," "Demonrat," etc...add to a substantive debate?

We recently lost our kitty after 14 wonderful years. It was heartbreaking.

However, we just adopted a new kitten, an adorable little shelter kitty four months old.

We have had her for three days...and we are probably being too overprotective but she has not been left alone in the house at all since we got her.

How best to leave her on her own for just a few hours? We're already thinking of putting her in our bedroom (she likes our bed) with her dish, litter box and a few toys, and keeping all interesting-to-kitten-but-kitten-doesn't-need-to-get-into-them out of reach (electric leads, etc.).

I know we're probably being too overprotective...but we just got our baby after losing another...

My wife and I got our cat right after we were married - Labour Day 1999. Now she is dying of an enlarged heart. We have given a DNR instruction to the vet because she is breathing so terribly hard. The vet says she would be miserable if not responding to medication. She hasn't died yet but if she doesn't respond to meds in the next 48 hours she will.

Of course it's hurting my dear wife, but it's killing me. I am a disabled veteran (depression, PTSD) and the kitty has been my only company during the day. She's more than a pet, she's our little girl (we don't have kids).

I know death is part of life and, at 47 years old, I've seen my share of it. I have very few living relatives, and I am on medication/in counselling (my counsellor knows about the kitty dying). My counsellor has said our kitty has been very therapeutic for me.

I know she's going to go eventually but it's still going to be like a kick in the guts when she does.

I will not know how to live...nor am I sure that I will care one way or another. I cannot say this to my dear wife because it would break her heart even worse that it already is over our kitty.

I am now in the process of berating myself over the times when I've been short with the kitty...I love her to pieces but there are times when I've snapped at her. Now I wish I could fix that all again even though I know I can't!

Please don't say "why are you so worked up over a cat." I don't need that, so if that's what you're saying, keep it.