Hi everyone,
Nowadays so many of us have beloved pets who share our homes and our lives. Unfortunately, very few of them are likely to outlive us and inevitably a time may come when we have to consider helping our little friends on their final journey. Just a few days before Christmas my sister had to make the decision to have one of their cats put to sleep; fortunately he was able to die at home just a couple of hours before the appointment, without the stress of the final car journey that he hated.
When this decision to take a cherished animal to the vets for them to be put to sleep has to be made it is fraught with emotion, and that mostly negative. Is it the right time? Is it selfish to keep them longer? Will it hurt them? It hurts us! The two occasions we have had to follow that road were before I had discovered EFT, and left emotional ripples that I have since successfully tapped on.
So why this item today? Going through my Google Reader page I came across the latest offering from EFTFree.net - "Elaine's Gift". This article by Christine Blanchet details the EFT experience with surrogate tapping she had with a friend's cat called Elaine, who was approaching her final hours. It shows how the use of EFT can help animals and their human companions, even when one of those humans is quite sceptical.
During the twenty odd years of our marriage we have had six cats; Tiggs and Tash, the two sisters we got as kittens about a year or so after the wedding; our present senior cat, Pyewacket; Solstice, a stray we adopted; and the mother and daughter partnership of Selene and Hecate. We had to have Tash put to sleep when she was 12 years old - she had an aortic thrombo-embolism which knocked her off her feet at 4.15pm one Sunday afternoon; by 5.00 pm we were at the vets; by 6.00 pm we were burying her in the garden (the crocuses and snowdrops planted there look beautiful just now). It was all very sudden and there was no way we could continue to see her in such pain.
A couple of months later we had the kitten Pyewacket to keep Tiggs company, and about 18 months after that Solstice wandered into our lives. No-one knew where he came from, or who he belonged to so we took him in, had him neutered, microchipped and vaccinated. He got his name from the fact that we felt we couldn't turn him out on a bitterly cold Winter Solstice night. He was the sweetest, daftest creature, and ate like there was no tomorrow - which alas for him turned out to be the case.
The vet did tell us he had a large heart murmur but he seemed fine. I did note that he was fond of nibbling the yarrow plant in the garden, but thought nothing of it at that time. When we went on holiday we decided he'd be best in the cattery, in case he wandered off again. We left him there on the Monday morning, but when we came to collect him on the following Saturday, they had to tell us that sadly he had died sometime during that first day with them. When they went to feed him, he was curled up peacefully, but gone.
It's likely that his heart had given out on him. They had kept him for us and when we buried him in his favourite spot in the garden, near the yarrow plant, it occurred to me that he may in fact have been self medicating, as we herbalists use Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) in remedies for heart and circulatory disorders. Coincidentally enough, just a few weeks later we heard of a cat, diagnosed with heart failure, who hated taking his tablets, but would spend a few minutes each day in our informant's garden, chewing on the foxglove leaves. Digitalis purpurea is of course the plant that contains the cardiac glycosides from which the heart drug Digoxin is synthesized.
At the age of 15 Tiggs showed signs of being unwell; going off her food was most unusual. A trip to the vets revealed the fact that she had a tumour in her kidney. They gave her some injections that they said might help a little and told us to see how she got on. Within a few days it was evident that Tiggs was failing; she didn't seem in pain but was slow and uncomfortable, and had gone off her food again. This time, there was opportunity to think about the decision - but in the end, there could be only one thing to do, and so we had to make that journey to the vets and see that she was helped on her final journey, and sooner, rather than later.
Six months later we added Selene and Hecate to the family, much to Pyewacket's utter disgust. If we had just had the kitten, he would probably have been fine, as he gets on quite well with her. But to this day, six years later, he still doesn't really have much time for Selene Mama Cat. I really should try a little surrogate tapping on his behalf ...
As readers may know, we've had health issues with Selene (here and here) and back in September we seriously thought we would have another final visit to the vets on the cards. Fortunately, all appears to be well, but as all three cats presently residing in this household are getting older, the time may come again when we have to make that decision, unless they die peacefully in their sleep, like Solstice.
Both of us hope that the furry lord and ladies of this house will be around with us yet for many a long year, but if we have to make that final decision for any of them there will be a lot of EFT tapping going on, for both them, and for us, to make the process as smooth and as hurt-free as possible. It is good to know that there is a process that can help at this painful time.
Bright Blessings,
Karen
Please feel free to contact me if you have any queries or requests.
To start learning about EFT you can download my "Balance Your Life With EFT" free manual, and I would also strongly recommend you get Gary Craig's here. You can obtain Gary's comprehensive training DVD sets here.
Please Note: Anything on the EFT side of this blog is provided as a public courtesy to help expand the use of EFT in the world. While Gary Craig and EFT encourage such efforts, they cannot evaluate or endorse the multitudes of them that exist. Thus any EFT content of this blog represents the unique ideas and usage of EFT by me, as its author, but not necessarily those of Gary Craig or EFT.
Nowadays so many of us have beloved pets who share our homes and our lives. Unfortunately, very few of them are likely to outlive us and inevitably a time may come when we have to consider helping our little friends on their final journey. Just a few days before Christmas my sister had to make the decision to have one of their cats put to sleep; fortunately he was able to die at home just a couple of hours before the appointment, without the stress of the final car journey that he hated.
When this decision to take a cherished animal to the vets for them to be put to sleep has to be made it is fraught with emotion, and that mostly negative. Is it the right time? Is it selfish to keep them longer? Will it hurt them? It hurts us! The two occasions we have had to follow that road were before I had discovered EFT, and left emotional ripples that I have since successfully tapped on.
So why this item today? Going through my Google Reader page I came across the latest offering from EFTFree.net - "Elaine's Gift". This article by Christine Blanchet details the EFT experience with surrogate tapping she had with a friend's cat called Elaine, who was approaching her final hours. It shows how the use of EFT can help animals and their human companions, even when one of those humans is quite sceptical.
During the twenty odd years of our marriage we have had six cats; Tiggs and Tash, the two sisters we got as kittens about a year or so after the wedding; our present senior cat, Pyewacket; Solstice, a stray we adopted; and the mother and daughter partnership of Selene and Hecate. We had to have Tash put to sleep when she was 12 years old - she had an aortic thrombo-embolism which knocked her off her feet at 4.15pm one Sunday afternoon; by 5.00 pm we were at the vets; by 6.00 pm we were burying her in the garden (the crocuses and snowdrops planted there look beautiful just now). It was all very sudden and there was no way we could continue to see her in such pain.
A couple of months later we had the kitten Pyewacket to keep Tiggs company, and about 18 months after that Solstice wandered into our lives. No-one knew where he came from, or who he belonged to so we took him in, had him neutered, microchipped and vaccinated. He got his name from the fact that we felt we couldn't turn him out on a bitterly cold Winter Solstice night. He was the sweetest, daftest creature, and ate like there was no tomorrow - which alas for him turned out to be the case.
The vet did tell us he had a large heart murmur but he seemed fine. I did note that he was fond of nibbling the yarrow plant in the garden, but thought nothing of it at that time. When we went on holiday we decided he'd be best in the cattery, in case he wandered off again. We left him there on the Monday morning, but when we came to collect him on the following Saturday, they had to tell us that sadly he had died sometime during that first day with them. When they went to feed him, he was curled up peacefully, but gone.
It's likely that his heart had given out on him. They had kept him for us and when we buried him in his favourite spot in the garden, near the yarrow plant, it occurred to me that he may in fact have been self medicating, as we herbalists use Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) in remedies for heart and circulatory disorders. Coincidentally enough, just a few weeks later we heard of a cat, diagnosed with heart failure, who hated taking his tablets, but would spend a few minutes each day in our informant's garden, chewing on the foxglove leaves. Digitalis purpurea is of course the plant that contains the cardiac glycosides from which the heart drug Digoxin is synthesized.
At the age of 15 Tiggs showed signs of being unwell; going off her food was most unusual. A trip to the vets revealed the fact that she had a tumour in her kidney. They gave her some injections that they said might help a little and told us to see how she got on. Within a few days it was evident that Tiggs was failing; she didn't seem in pain but was slow and uncomfortable, and had gone off her food again. This time, there was opportunity to think about the decision - but in the end, there could be only one thing to do, and so we had to make that journey to the vets and see that she was helped on her final journey, and sooner, rather than later.
Six months later we added Selene and Hecate to the family, much to Pyewacket's utter disgust. If we had just had the kitten, he would probably have been fine, as he gets on quite well with her. But to this day, six years later, he still doesn't really have much time for Selene Mama Cat. I really should try a little surrogate tapping on his behalf ...
As readers may know, we've had health issues with Selene (here and here) and back in September we seriously thought we would have another final visit to the vets on the cards. Fortunately, all appears to be well, but as all three cats presently residing in this household are getting older, the time may come again when we have to make that decision, unless they die peacefully in their sleep, like Solstice.
Both of us hope that the furry lord and ladies of this house will be around with us yet for many a long year, but if we have to make that final decision for any of them there will be a lot of EFT tapping going on, for both them, and for us, to make the process as smooth and as hurt-free as possible. It is good to know that there is a process that can help at this painful time.
Bright Blessings,
Karen
Please feel free to contact me if you have any queries or requests.
To start learning about EFT you can download my "Balance Your Life With EFT" free manual, and I would also strongly recommend you get Gary Craig's here. You can obtain Gary's comprehensive training DVD sets here.
Please Note: Anything on the EFT side of this blog is provided as a public courtesy to help expand the use of EFT in the world. While Gary Craig and EFT encourage such efforts, they cannot evaluate or endorse the multitudes of them that exist. Thus any EFT content of this blog represents the unique ideas and usage of EFT by me, as its author, but not necessarily those of Gary Craig or EFT.
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