Hi petloss community,
I want to share something that makes me smile often, and I hope it will make you smile too.
My soulcat passed away in 2023. She was a very particular cat, you would need to know how to approach her for any kind of physical contact (cuddling, carrying, petting, etc.) or you would get hisses and/or scratches. I don’t remember how it happened exactly, but some months before she passed away, I think I was picking her up to put in her carrier and she scratched my hand in the meantime. It wasn’t a deep scratch, just a regular surface scratch that I would get perhaps every week, but my body decided to leave a scar as this one healed. Now I have a vertical, light-colored line on my left hand/wrist. I would add a photo but we can’t in the sub, I guess.
Now she’s gone, but I will always have this tangible impact she had on me until I pass away too. It’s pretty sweet :) I sometimes tell and show this to people, but they don’t really get how important this is to me unless they too experienced a loss.
Feel free to share if there are such unexpected remnants your companion left you!
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I have three scars on my right forearm from when I tried to break up a fight between our two striped tabbies and our tortie. I really wasn’t thinking.
I also have (but it’s finally fading, all those years later) a long one on my calf from when my childhood cat leaned into me petting him and fell off the bed when I turned to walk away.
They’re all gone now, but I’ve been permanently marked. 😁
I also have one on my right forearm from a stray that I was trying to take to the vet because he was very gassy lol. I was yoinking him from the ground as another stray decided to tackle me by standing right behind me, the gassy guy scratched me because I was almost dropping him as I was trying not to fall 🤣
i have a few scars on my boob from her when i was giving her a bath because she got pee on her haha.. she used to do well in the bath.. until she got ahold of your shirt.. i also measured her height as she grew so on my wall i have lines with dates of her growing :)
Measuring height for animals never crossed my mind that's so cute!
yeah! i have her gradually growing by my window and then by my door i have her adult height, my dogs adult height, my other cats adult height and a few people i value most in my life. i likr it
I can relate. I’m so happy in a weird way that I have a few scars from my baby boy! I often stare at them when I feel down and it makes me smile thinking of the better times.
I still have a faded scar on my thigh from my childhood cat using me as a launching pad lol. Like you, I’m glad that I have the scar, and I’m thankful to have that tangible evidence of her existence.
My soulcat, who passed this year, was the biggest marshmallow and lover boy, so I don’t have anything like that from him. Instead I wear his nametag on a charm necklace as a way to keep him close to me.
Nametag as a charm is such a good idea :’)
Neither Callie nor Wanda scratched me much, if ever. Instead, I got memorial tattoos. Callie is recreated as a watercolor painting on my foot, where she would always rest her head, Wanda's pawprints and nose/whisker puffs/chin print are tattooed on my chest where she always rested when I held her.
I'm also thinking about getting a tattoo of her!
If it's your first tattoo, my advice is to find an artist whose style fits the look you want, be upfront about how much you're comfortable spending, and avoid the top of your foot cause it hurts like hell (if it's large or intricate).
If it's not your first tattoo, you already know what to do :)