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Bubbler (just a loop)

By laguna on September 29, 2024 11:51 pm

In my avatar you can see a photo of my beloved cat, Copo de Nieve ("Snowball", in spanish). He's probably 16 (we don't know for sure, since we pick him up from the street when he was an adult, so we guess he was between one and two years old back then).

He's been very sick lately, suffering from severe thyroid and kidney failure. He stopped eating altogether two weeks ago. We've been giving him food with syringes, along with medication, but he has lost a lot of weight. He was a fluffy 7.5 kilogram cat; now he's barely 3.6.

He's severely anemic. Quite apathic, just want to be by himself and rejects all kinds of food or liquid, except water.

I guess you all understand what all that means. It's hard to let him go, but we don't want him to fade out until he collapses out of weakness. We've force-feed him small amounts of liquid food but he's visibly distressed and anyways it's not enough nutrients for him, not by chance.

So this week I just made this loop. Wanted to automate some things in Reaper but I had an issue with the playback, then gave up. Please excuse me if I don't give a fuck about my audio drivers, or song structure.

I love my cat. He's "the king of the house"... I don't want him to suffer, yet it's not easy to put him to sleep, like his life was just something I could cancel whenever I want.

It's not the only struggle my family has been lately, though I don't feel like I want to talk about it. I just wanted to make some soothing harmonies, for Copo.

El Rey de la Casa.

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My heart is broken for you and your beautiful boy....it's gutting to watch them suffer. My big orange boy went through the same thing in 2012 - I still think about him almost every day.

They will always be with us heart Peace to you and your King.

Paisleyfrog wrote:

My heart is broken for you and your beautiful boy....it's gutting to watch them suffer. My big orange boy went through the same thing in 2012 - I still think about him almost every day.

They will always be with us heart Peace to you and your King.

We put him down just a few minutes ago. He simply wasn't himself anymore, wondering absent, trembling.

Your kind words are much appreciated, very much, indeed.

Peace to you, Paisleyfrog smile

laguna wrote:
Paisleyfrog wrote:

My heart is broken for you and your beautiful boy....it's gutting to watch them suffer. My big orange boy went through the same thing in 2012 - I still think about him almost every day.

They will always be with us heart Peace to you and your King.

We put him down just a few minutes ago. He simply wasn't himself anymore, wondering absent, trembling.

Your kind words are much appreciated, very much, indeed.

Peace to you, Paisleyfrog smile

Oh, I’m so sorry. Heart is broken again.

Letting him go is the hardest thing in the world, but it’s also the most loving. You gave him a good life, and you were there for him at the end when he needed you most.

heart heart heart

Paisleyfrog wrote:

Letting him go is the hardest thing in the world, but it’s also the most loving. You gave him a good life, and you were there for him at the end when he needed you most.

heart heart heart

Thanks a lot, really. I'm glad I could be with him all these years. He will be remembered forever

I'm very sorry for your loss, laguna. The soothing loop you uploaded has a mourning undertone, it's a fitting farewell.

my sincere condolences, laguna.
rest well, Copo de Nieve  heart

rplktr wrote:

I'm very sorry for your loss, laguna. The soothing loop you uploaded has a mourning undertone, it's a fitting farewell.

Thanks a lot, rplktr. It's deeply appreciated.

I was going for a more evolving sound with sweeping filters and the like and then I had some problems with Reaper and... just didn't feel like messing around with the computer in that moment. Maybe I'd give it more polish sometime.

He will be missed, for sure

jwh wrote:

my sincere condolences, laguna.
rest well, Copo de Nieve  heart

Thanks a lot for your kind words and nice wishes, jwh smile

He's on the other side of the rainbow now, chasing butterflies like he liked.

So sorry to hear about this sad news, very difficult to lose a part of your family.  I wish you and your family all the best, all these years on weeklybeats I don’t know what you look like, but I always have the avatar of your beloved friend in mind. 

Jason Nijjer wrote:

So sorry to hear about this sad news, very difficult to lose a part of your family.  I wish you and your family all the best, all these years on weeklybeats I don’t know what you look like, but I always have the avatar of your beloved friend in mind.

Thanks a lot, my friend. It's deeply appreciated. Sometimes our pets are closer to us that certain blood relatives which could be the same as strangers.

Remembering something funny, Orange Drink commented a while ago after watching me for the first time that he literally thought of me as a white cat playing music in the studio, so I'm honored smile

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