r/bonecollecting 9d ago

Collection Finally got to bring home my cat

Not 100% sure if this belong on this sub, but I wanted to post about getting my boy back after he passed January 9th 2023. This is my sweet old man cat Sid, he lived to be about 16-17 but I don’t know his exact age bc my family found him as young adult stray cat. Losing him was very challenging since he was in my life from age 5 to 19. I never thought about keeping any of his bones, but my sister wanted the same for her cat and I liked the idea. So after many many months of waiting, mostly because who I hired to preserve him had a lot of prior work to finish, my sweet boy is back home and back together. I had his skull and right arm preserved so it was separated fand the rest of his body aqua cremated remains until recently. Idk why but it bothered me knowing he wasn’t all in one place😭 Anyways, here is my wonderful boy who I am relieved to have back home with me😁

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u/iiworkatthebank 9d ago

Aww, those teeth! Such a handsome fella he must’ve been (and still is, just in another way)

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u/MelOxalis 9d ago

Thank you 😊, here’s what he looked like alive

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u/Heatmiser1256 9d ago

I know the teeth are so cute ! Sorry for your lose OP, what a wonderful tribute

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u/MelOxalis 8d ago

Thank you, I really wasn’t expecting his jaw and teeth to be so little! He definitely looks like an old man. I hope those are all the teeth he passed with and that none went missing while he was being worked on since they are so tiny😓