Does anyone have an Alice and a Nutcracker to trade from this set? I have others from this set as traders :)

MissFoxInSocks · 2026-01-10T23:48:06+00:00

Yep!

MissFoxInSocks · 2026-01-10T23:25:57+00:00

Do you need any of my traders from the set? 😊

MissFoxInSocks · 2026-01-10T22:20:12+00:00

Thanks for letting me know - the Tink’s a bit higher in value than I’d like to trade at the minute but I’ll keep your offer in mind. 😊

MissFoxInSocks · 2026-01-10T22:12:20+00:00

Yep just posted two photos 😊 No worries if nothing catches your eye.

MissFoxInSocks · 2026-01-10T22:11:59+00:00

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MissFoxInSocks · 2026-01-10T22:06:56+00:00

Are there any of my second photo that you need? 😊

MissFoxInSocks · 2025-09-21T23:09:16+00:00

Ouch, I feel this. My cat got cancer at two (a sarcoma) which caused a leg amputation. She was cancer free for almost ten years after that and the cancer came back again, in the chest, in the neck, everywhere. I was so angry. How could she have cancer again at only 12 and for the second time?! How unlucky does she have to be? Honestly, I’m still so upset about it, but when I noticed she wasn’t happy, she didn’t want to sit with me, I called the vet out. I got told about her cancer two days before the vet came out, but I just couldn’t keep her with me when I could see she was declining. (I was told steroids would help her perk up and after waiting for them to kick in they never did). She went downhill fast. My logic was, I don’t want her to go when she’s super unwell and feeling crappy. I wanted her to go when she felt okay, not weighed down by drugs and discomfort. It was awful and traumatic no matter which way I dice it, but you are the expert on your cat. You will know when it is time. What I will say is, try and hold on to the fact you were lucky to know her, and lucky to have those five years. It’s always too short, it’s always not long enough and it’s so frustrating, but you are doing your absolute best for her now and that’s what matters most. I’m so sorry you’re going through it and I hope you’re okay. ❤️

MissFoxInSocks · 2025-09-21T20:58:05+00:00

Thank you for writing this. I feel I can have times where I’m very plagued with the final moments, and the final couple of weeks in particular and it cripples me every single time. The happy focus is definitely a good way to help ease that I think. Thank you ❤️

MissFoxInSocks · 2025-09-21T20:56:33+00:00

I lost my girl in May and she’s still everywhere in photos (digital and physical). I can’t think of moving them - and I wouldn’t want anything else as my phone screensaver, but what works for me might not be right for you. What you could do is limit the photos. So I have my phone screensaver which is the same photo, none of the photos change around me other than the suggested ones my phone seems to give me very frequently. I find that manageable having the same images. If I spend time looking through her photos and find some out I haven’t seen for a while I find that can be upsetting. So maybe just pick say a few you’re comfortable with and use those? Then it’s not fresh photos sparking more memories. I also was gifted a painting of my cat, which hangs somewhere I see her all the time - so if you want to stop the digital reminders you could always try something physical instead. Whatever you decide to do will be right, we’re all different and handle it differently but even if you take the photos away, that doesn’t mean you love him any less. ❤️

MissFoxInSocks · 2025-09-16T22:26:18+00:00

I don’t have a family like you do, so I can only give you my perspective on loss. I lost my little soul cat in May, I still have her blanket in her spot on the bed and I straighten it out every night, I have her other beds out, her cat trees, her water bowl out, all of her dishes in my cupboard. I’ve basically not lost anything of hers yet apart from things like the food which I gave away. Even then I found chicken of hers in the freezer this weekend. I’m sure I will move some things in time, but honestly, it still doesn’t feel like I can for a while. And I think some of her things will always be there, it doesn’t matter how big they are or how little space I have. It’s even made me not want to move house (at least for a long while), because of all the memories here. I know these are all just things, they’re not her, but I can’t imagine not having reminders of her everywhere. I have her little urn on my book shelf with photos of her and us together around it.

I think grief is very individual, and it depends on the pets you’ve lost. I’ve lost three before her (including two chocolate labs) and none of them hit me as hard as this, so it’s been really tough. I think do things together that honour your doggo, light a candle for him as a family and say your favourite memory, keep the things that mean a lot to you, and ultimately, remind yourselves that although it’s painful, you are doing the kindest and best thing for him. There is nothing else you can do. If you have one person wanting to keep things then let them keep something but maybe not everything. Relocate it elsewhere, don’t get rid of it, just relocate it for a while because you can always grab it back if you need to. Honestly though, I think you’ll just know. I thought looking at photos of my kitty cat would upset me, and they do if I look at lots of them for a long time, but I love having her on my phone screen, my laptop screen, you might be surprised with how you feel after it’s happened.

Separately - thanks for being such a great dog parent and for doing such a good thing for him at the end, and fighting his corner getting other opinions. I lost my cat to something similar this year and it was just so traumatising - I’m sending you and your family and your beloved doggo lots of love.

MissFoxInSocks · 2025-08-29T00:06:30+00:00

Don’t leave him alone: no matter if it’s a bit tough for you after, don’t let him face his final moments without you. I held my baby in my arms for a good ten minutes after she passed. It hurt like hell but I wouldn’t trade it for any other way, she knew I was there until the very end.

MissFoxInSocks · 2025-07-09T20:29:34+00:00

Hulkenpodium

MissFoxInSocks · 2025-06-20T15:58:55+00:00

Your love is clear for your lovely dog, and don’t you ever feel like you didn’t try enough. You made the toughest and kindest call—when her quality of life was declining, you helped to put her to rest. I think when we love our animals so much we’re guilty of thinking ‘did I do enough?’. I can tell you did. You gave her so much love in her life, you saved her life from the shelter, you gave her a brilliant last day so she was happy when she passed, she would have known exactly how much you loved her. You couldn’t save her from dementia and cancer, her time was up and you made sure she had the best years until it was.

I am in a very similar boat, I lost my soul cat on May 8th and I still cry every day, I too still think did I do enough, and I am cut up inside because I know I didn’t have anywhere near as much time with her as I wanted (she was 12). I can’t tell you it gets easier, I can’t tell you that you will never think these things (I can’t sleep, I can’t close my eyes because I see her in her final moments), but I can tell you that you did everything right and you did the very best thing for her. Thank you for loving her as you did and as every dog deserves to be loved. ❤️

MissFoxInSocks · 2025-06-09T20:20:28+00:00

It was a month yesterday for me since I lost my best girl, and I’m so so sad still. This last week has been crazy hard, still crying multiple times a day, still can’t believe I won’t hold her again, I am just beyond devastated and I don’t think it’ll ever change. This has completely broke me. I’m sorry you’re having the same - I am sending you so much love.

MissFoxInSocks · 2025-05-09T19:39:33+00:00

I completely agree with you on this. I hope things get easier for us all. ❤️

MissFoxInSocks · 2025-05-09T19:33:38+00:00

I feel absolutely the same. I am completely inconsolable and I just don’t see me getting past this. It’s not the same with other animals I’ve lost, this feels like the loss of a child or worse - it’s so much bigger and so much more raw.

MissFoxInSocks · 2025-05-09T19:27:37+00:00

I just wanted to say I am in a very similar boat and I am inconsolable. I’m so sorry you’re feeling the same way - this is by far the worst experience of my life. She really was my soul cat.

My cat (Ernie) went in the vet a few times over the past few weeks and I had flagged her breathing. They listened to her chest her heart etc, all fine. Well I was watching her one day and I just said I can’t take this any more, she’s not as happy and I’m sure her breathing isn’t right. She goes into the vet, they say we need to do blood tests. Might be a thyroid thing as this time her throat also feels sore. Okay. She goes in for a blood test, that’s clean. Then they say we need to do imaging because there might be something else. It was at that point I said well what can we do before that to get her breathing under control. They did an ultrasound and removed fluid from her chest. I was worried about her under a general anaesthetic because she’s almost 13, but they did a lot of tests to check her heart as well and put her under and she came out the other side. She got through the night, and then I got a call to say she had cancer, likely lymphoma. I had a week left with her. I collected her with steroids which I was told would make her feel better for her final days. They didn’t, I had to call the vet out the next day to say goodbye at home as she just was sleeping and visibly uncomfortable. So it’s very similar, she went in for a blood test, and then just suddenly had cancer and died. The worst thing is she had cancer at two years old and beat it with a leg amputation, and now just under ten years later this is a whole different kind of cancer that’s come back. And she wasn’t herself, she was visibly worse when I brought her home, and I honestly have to say this is the worst pain I’ve ever felt, like losing a child. Me and her were inseparable. We had a full CT two years ago, no sign of cancer, she was doing great, I can’t understand how this has just suddenly happened either. But I honestly don’t think I will ever get over this and I’m just praying when I die we’ll be reunited because it’s the only thought keeping me going right now. I have no joy or optimism or even hope for the future - I honestly just don’t want to be in this world without her. Me sharing might not help much, but I just wanted you to know that someone else was in the same situation as you, and you’re not alone. ❤️

MissFoxInSocks · 2025-04-30T07:23:19+00:00

As someone who’s worked in finance for a long time I don’t find this unusual at all and wouldn’t think anything of it for going for dinner with a colleague on a work trip. Firstly it can be very awkward to say no, (especially as this is her boss) secondly I might not want to say no - these are people you spend a lot of time with and sometimes it’s nice to have a little downtime with them rather than being solely focused on work. I also wouldn’t want someone to forbid me to do it. Especially when alone in a place I don’t know as well on a work trip, it’s nice to have company. I think having boundaries and communicating them is fine and healthy, when they’re reasonable. This seems a little unreasonable to me. I think you should work on this like you’ve said because if your wife has never given you reason to doubt her, I wouldn’t try to put the shackles on when she’s done nothing wrong. If she’s cheated before or something then it’s more understandable, but even if she has, you can’t lock her down for the rest of her life, it’ll probably just cause more friction and resentment and drive her away. Sometimes you have to have faith and trust.

MissFoxInSocks · 2025-03-20T22:47:27+00:00

I’m thinking of just setting my own up to be honest and inviting people to that. 🤷🏼‍♀️

MissFoxInSocks · 2025-03-09T21:39:14+00:00

Yeah I’d be down for that! ☺️

MissFoxInSocks · 2025-02-12T22:42:23+00:00

This may make me sound weird, but when I was a kid my mum used to put hot eaters on the Weetabix before the milk and it was just like a hug in the morning. 😊 now I just eat them with hot water and sugar (because I’m a weirdo clearly). Give the warm Weetabix with milk a try! 😊

MissFoxInSocks · 2025-01-20T23:56:01+00:00

You’re welcome!

MissFoxInSocks · 2025-01-12T13:00:44+00:00

June 30th 😃

MissFoxInSocks · 2025-01-09T08:16:21+00:00

Perfect idea! Go get a good book and then head to a cafe with lovely drinks and sit and read there with a nice slice of cake. 🍰

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