Kitty Cat Update
Oct. 29th, 2004 11:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
morganskye11:18 - For some reason, I starting feeling ill to my stomach and I started to cry.
11:20 - I get a call from Mom. They're going to put the kitty down tomorrow morning.
He was apparently much older than we thought. The vet said that he was at least 10 years (quite old for cats), had kidney problems, almost no teeth, and severly dehydrated. Fleas and ticks galore. The poor thing only weighed 6 lbs. New born babies are bigger...
He was nutered, so someone loved him. We think that he knew he was ill and left his home on purpose. We've had cats do that to us before, so it wasn't a surprise. I'm putting up signs tonight after work. Hopefully his owner will come forward so they can see him before 11am tomorrow. We can't bring him back to the house because he may infect Murphy. I won't get to see him again, but I don't think I could stand it anyway. I can't stop crying. I wanted to help him, make him better. But now I can't and I feel so bad. I miss him already, and I only had a few hours with him. Everyone says that I did good because his last days were happy and warm. I don't want it to be his last days, but there's nothing I can do. I feel so useless.
11:20 - I get a call from Mom. They're going to put the kitty down tomorrow morning.
He was apparently much older than we thought. The vet said that he was at least 10 years (quite old for cats), had kidney problems, almost no teeth, and severly dehydrated. Fleas and ticks galore. The poor thing only weighed 6 lbs. New born babies are bigger...
He was nutered, so someone loved him. We think that he knew he was ill and left his home on purpose. We've had cats do that to us before, so it wasn't a surprise. I'm putting up signs tonight after work. Hopefully his owner will come forward so they can see him before 11am tomorrow. We can't bring him back to the house because he may infect Murphy. I won't get to see him again, but I don't think I could stand it anyway. I can't stop crying. I wanted to help him, make him better. But now I can't and I feel so bad. I miss him already, and I only had a few hours with him. Everyone says that I did good because his last days were happy and warm. I don't want it to be his last days, but there's nothing I can do. I feel so useless.
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Date: 2004-10-29 04:12 pm (UTC)No, there's nothing you can do to make it not his last days, short of taking him away from the vet, and letting him live his last days on the street.
But, small comfort though it may be, take comfort that his passing will be easy, and his last days were in a warm place where he was loved.
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Date: 2004-10-29 06:02 pm (UTC)