Elysian Fields: In-Home Euthanasia

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07/09/2023

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04/10/2019

Just a reminder as we move into spring and Easter, lilies are highly toxic to cats. If you share your home with cats, please do not bring Easter Lilies into your home, or if your cats garden with you, consider not planting or removing lilies that may already exist in your garden.
Happy Spring!

01/18/2019

Please stay warm and safe in this snowstorm, everyone, and watch out for pets that have been left outdoors.

07/04/2018

Happy Independence Day, everyone! Please keep your pets safe this time of year by making sure they have fresh, cold water, shelter from the hot sun, and make sure they are safe indoors during the fireworks.

02/17/2018

Our hearts go out to the families in Parkland, Florida as they deal with this tragedy.

12/04/2017

Tomorrow is Colorado Gives Day. If you are able to make a donation to help the street cats, please do so by going to Thefelinefix.org
Thank you, and may this holiday season find you and your lovely critters safe, warm, and healthy❣️

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09/01/2017

Elysium
Definitions for Elysium
any place or state of perfect happiness; paradise.
Also called Elysian Fields. Classical Mythology. the abode of the blessed after death.
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Citations for Elysium
And, oh! if there is an Elysium on earth, / It is this, it is this.
Thomas Moore, "Elysium on Earth," Lalla Rookh, 1817
Her brilliant drawing-room, with Dobbs Broughton for a companion, was not an elysium.
Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset, 1867
Origin of Elysium
LatinGreek
1590-1600
Elysium is the Latin rendering of the Greek adjective Ēlýsion. Everything about Elysium (or the Elysian Fields) is obscure: there is no reliable etymology for the Greek adjective Ēlýsion “Elysian” (though pedíon “field, plain” is clear). The location of Elysium is just as unreliable. In the Odyssey (bk 4. 560 ff.) Homer places Elysium on the western edge of the earth, by the vast stream Oceanus—an imaginary place—where there is no wind or rain or storms, where the just Rhadamanthys (another name with no reliable etymology) is a judge of the Underworld and rules over demigods and heroes, who live a carefree, happy afterlife. Elysium entered English in the late 16th century.

08/27/2017

Our thoughts are with friends and animals in Texas during this difficult time. Hoping the rain subsides soon.

11/08/2016

How fortunate we are to live in Colorado where we still have sunshine in November. Iggy's enjoying his garden.