Public Address | Cafe | Cracker: No Kitty Blues https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Kiwiiano https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=69058#post69058 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=69058#post69058 My moggy had to make the last trip to the vet a couple of weeks ago. It was a tough call, but when you accept that ball of fluff into your house and heart, you also have to promise that some day you will make that really difficult decision.
My…

]]> Thu, 11 Sept 2008 17:10:44 +1200 JA https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=66343#post66343 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=66343#post66343 Poor Tonka. Nice to know he went out being held by someone who loved him though.

My very old and slightly senile cat headed out to lie on the grass in sleet and rain to die- only to be retrieved by my mother who took her back inside and held…

]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:08:01 +1200 Anna I https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=66022#post66022 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=66022#post66022 I'm a bit late on the whole posting thing, but this post just made me get a lump in my throat.

We had to find a home for my beautiful naughty tortie when we left NZ 18months ago. Her new mum is wonderful and amazing and a real cat person,…

]]> Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:07:16 +1200 Danielle https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64409#post64409 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64409#post64409

On a lighter note – Danielle, I just wanted to compliment you on your cats' names. Laverne and Shirley? Classic.

Shameel! Shamozzle!

(We had a theme: we named all our animals after 70s TV characters. The two dogs are named after Vinnie Barbarino from Welcome Kotter and Miss Ellie from…

]]> Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:35:36 +1200 Megan Wegan https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64402#post64402 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64402#post64402 My cat Harry died 5 years ago last month. He was only a baby (about 2) and I still miss him. He's buried under a rose in my parents' garden, and whenever I am home I visit.

Poor Tonka, and poor Damian.

]]> Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:07:20 +1200 Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64309#post64309 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64309#post64309 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 19:36:52 +1200 Susan Snowdon https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64308#post64308 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64308#post64308 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 19:04:57 +1200 Kerry Weston https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64281#post64281 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64281#post64281 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:03:35 +1200 Kerry Weston https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64280#post64280 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64280#post64280

Jeeves, deeply disturbed

Hmmm, I've heard of toys of cats, but this is not on, Jeeves!

]]> Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:03:08 +1200 Jen Ferguson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64238#post64238 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64238#post64238 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:00:20 +1200 Stephen Judd https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64231#post64231 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64231#post64231 Any fans of Kate Beaton here? ]]> Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:32:12 +1200 kater https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64229#post64229 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64229#post64229 Oh dear, that blog made me rather teary. Reminds me of when I lost my first and bestest cat, Roxy – got her when I was five and she was with me right through my childhood until I finished school.

This probably makes me sound like a weird cat looney…

]]> Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:22:43 +1200 Hadyn Green https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64222#post64222 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64222#post64222 are good owners. ]]> Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:02:28 +1200 Hadyn Green https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64221#post64221 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64221#post64221 Here are my pics of Amy's cat Hermes. Hermes is currently missing, we know he's somewhere in Houghton Bay (Wellington). If you live out that way, please keep an eye out.

And here is Jedi. Jedi just came back from the vet (like 10mins ago) where he was told he was overweight…

]]> Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:01:21 +1200 Emma Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64215#post64215 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64215#post64215

Nice dot-matrix action! That cat *had* been around a while...

Fifteen years. He was an expert at jumping on sleeping people's face and falling in the toilet.

More cat photos please.

Our current house-tsars:

Wooster, slightly confused

Jeeves, deeply disturbed

]]> Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:53:56 +1200 3410 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64212#post64212 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64212#post64212 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:41:43 +1200 Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64186#post64186 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64186#post64186 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:07:03 +1200 Damian Christie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64185#post64185 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64185#post64185

I am sure Tonka is at the Cat Pearly Gates meowing to be let in, or inside the Cat Pearly Gates meowing to be let out.

Heh, I don't know how long it took me to work that one out – "oh you want to be let out (at 5am)?…

]]> Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:06:08 +1200 Robyn Gallagher https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64178#post64178 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64178#post64178

how many cats can say they've been on telly?

Not many, but there'd be quite a few who've been on top of a telly – high and warm!

In fact, I hear that kittehs have been strongly lobbying against flat-screen TVs due to the reduced space on top for them…

]]> Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:48:18 +1200 Richard Irvine https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64172#post64172 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64172#post64172

Ptolemy

Nice dot-matrix action! That cat *had* been around a while...

]]> Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:35:11 +1200 Suze Vermeer https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64161#post64161 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64161#post64161 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:11:55 +1200 Emma Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64159#post64159 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64159#post64159 Alright, that was weird, an m jumped out of the middle of my url.

Ptolemy

]]> Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:06:53 +1200 Emma Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64158#post64158 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64158#post64158 this guy about three years ago, and I still miss him. He'd been with me through uni and babies, been my companion longer than my partner. It was weeks before I stopped seeing him round the house out of the corner of my eye. ]]> Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:05:29 +1200 Eric Olthwaite https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64154#post64154 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64154#post64154 That's terrible Damien. As a Ragdoll owner I know just how endearing those big fluffy white monsters can be.

I am sure Tonka is at the Cat Pearly Gates meowing to be let in, or inside the Cat Pearly Gates meowing to be let out.

]]> Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:58:32 +1200 rightochaps https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64151#post64151 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64151#post64151 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:48:42 +1200 Kim Wilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64134#post64134 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64134#post64134 So sorry to hear/read about Tonka. Your post made my eyes leak.

I highly recommend leaving the vac'ing; I had to make The Decision regarding holidaying flatmates' cat several weeks ago after he took a turn for the worse one night. I've only just sucked up his hair from the…

]]> Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:11:38 +1200 Richard Irvine https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64106#post64106 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64106#post64106 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:11:48 +1200 Damian Christie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64104#post64104 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64104#post64104 :) Yeah bring on the kitty photos – let's have a feline love-in.

And yes, Tonka never seemed more affectionate than when I was sitting on the couch with my Powerbook out. Nothing said "come jump on my lap" more than a laptop...

]]> Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:02:25 +1200 Hadyn Green https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64103#post64103 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64103#post64103 Jedi. ]]> Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:58:17 +1200 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64102#post64102 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64102#post64102 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:54:20 +1200 Richard Irvine https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64101#post64101 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64101#post64101 Thanks – here's one more. He hates that Mac and the attention it sucks that could be lavished on him. He's called Biscotti, and he's getting on a wee bit now, he's about 12.

You should definitely leave the vacuuming for a wee while yet.

]]> Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:54:02 +1200 jon johansson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64098#post64098 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64098#post64098 Hey bro, very sorry to hear. Tonka would sure have loved all the kai you used to bring home when you were down on the Bay.

Must have fancied you, too, coz Tonka's blackmail potential would have been quite the temptation me thinks.

Take care man

]]> Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:43:03 +1200 Michael Stevens https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64096#post64096 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64096#post64096 So sorry that you are going through this Damian. Our pets give us so much trust and love and ask for so little back.

it is always a huge blow. I hope you are doing ok.

]]> Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:27:56 +1200 Damian Christie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64088#post64088 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64088#post64088 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:43:03 +1200 Richard Irvine https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64085#post64085 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64085#post64085 Birman too, he's fantastic and I can't imagine not having him around. I hear what you're saying 'bout white fluff! You'll be still be finding bits for years. ]]> Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:38:49 +1200 Danielle https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64084#post64084 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64084#post64084 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:38:48 +1200 Rogan Polkinghorne https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64081#post64081 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64081#post64081 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:25:30 +1200 Damian Christie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64080#post64080 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64080#post64080

All I want to do right now is go home and cuddle my cat.

And make sure you do, Sir. I know a bunch of my friends' kitties have been feeling the love of their owners since Tonka got sick.

Simon, I wasn't sure if you'd seen him when he…

]]> Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:07:08 +1200 Hadyn Green https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64075#post64075 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64075#post64075 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:17:45 +1200 Simon Grigg https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64068#post64068 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64068#post64068 I have great memories of that ball of fluff that used to spread itself across the sofa around at Ring Terrace. Tonka was not a cat you could avoid noticing. And you said he got larger in recent years!

RIP Tonka

]]> Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:33:41 +1200 Deborah https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64065#post64065 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64065#post64065 Oh, Damian. I'm so sorry for you. I have mourned for cats like that too (NB the mourning is similar, not the cats, because clearly there could be only one Tonka).

We have a nice-enough cat now. She's actually my daughter's cat, and she made the trip across the Tasman…

]]> Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:09:55 +1200 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64063#post64063 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64063#post64063 Having and taking care and loving pets is the outreach of our kind of animal – but not exclusively (check out Koko.) And that almost inevitably leads to grieving for the shorter-lived kin – nice cat Damian.
Sorry he's dead-

]]> Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:02:16 +1200 Morgan Nichol https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64062#post64062 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64062#post64062 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:52:39 +1200 Michael Savidge https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64059#post64059 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64059#post64059 Hell Damian...you've just broken my heart a little bit more. What a beautiful cat he was....

I don't know what more to say.

]]> Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:35:47 +1200 Sue https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64058#post64058 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64058#post64058 oh mate

loosing your kitteh is something i wouldn't wish on anyone
:/

couldn't imagine life without my cat

]]> Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:33:07 +1200 Robyn Gallagher https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64055#post64055 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64055#post64055 What a beautiful, lovely kitty. And when I see how fluffy he was, it makes me want to snoogle his belly. Yes.

It sounds like Tonka had a really good life, and I'm glad you got to say goodbye to him.

Thanks for sharing the story, and especially for the…

]]> Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:57:45 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64054#post64054 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-no-kitty-blues/?p=64054#post64054 Discussion from blog post.

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