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Sorry to hear that, buddy.
At least you can take some solace in the fact that the cat lived a long and fruitful life. I'm not much of a cat person but what i've noticed about cats is that they live violent lives and often die bloody deaths. I used to see these stray cats in a field near me stalk birds and tear them to shreds. Violent lives, violent deaths. Either a dog gets them and rips them open instead of just chasing them like the bumbling, easily fooled dogs in the TV cartoons, or another tom gets them, or a poisoned bait, or a passing car. Cats are the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There are a great many of them that never grow old by the fire.
I know how you feel though. I had a bluetick coonhound a couple years back that I was training and she ran a deer out on the road and got hit by a car right in front of me. Only eight months old. Without going into gory details I will say that it was quite possibly one of the worst days of my life, but time heals all wounds. Best thing to do is to get another one as soon as you feel ready, like some other people mentioned.
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