Animal

This evening I was told by my Mom that our family cat of almost 22 years had to be put to sleep today. It was definitely hard to hear, but I had been preparing myself for the news since his health was deteriorating over the past year. He had definitely not been in the suffering category until recently. When I visited them a couple of weeks ago he was still doing all right, but he was starting to have nasal problems, which is not good for a cat because they can not breath out of their mouths like dogs or other animals (from what the vet had told my Mom when she took him in for a check up a week ago). It is strange to think of how animals become a part of the family as much as they do, but it will be strange to not have him around, as I still remember getting him when I was around five years old. It is good to know that he had a long, and I think a good life with us.
On a different note, I had a little bit of nostalgia this weekend while I was going through some CD's in my closet and found some albums that I forgot I had bought. I found some live concert discs of Pearl Jam from a show that they did in New York. I was always a fairly big fan of the album Ten, but I never really followed them too much after that. Listening to their live discs, I actually really liked a lot of the live versions of some of their songs. I've never seen them live, but it was a lot of fun to rock out to them again, since I haven't actually really listened to a whole album of Pearl Jam's since High School.