So sorry to hear this, Frank.
I have a huge, gelatinous soft spot for animals and know how tough it is
to set aside your own personal interests in keeping a beloved member of
the household around as long as you can in the interest of allowing
their suffering to end.
Thankfully, the pleasant memories of their better years crowd out the
tough ones as time passes. And, as sad as it is to let her go, you just
have to take solace in the fact that, on balance, she lived a
comfortable and dignified life with a family that obviously loved and
cared a great deal for her.
As the lives of cats go, that ain't too shabby.
-- Walt
On 8/31/2012 5:13 PM, knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote:
I've been a bit quiet these two days dealing with a family issue:
http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.ca/2008/03/cats-eye.html?m=0
The name she came to me with at the age of seven, in 1996, was Patches. If you do the math that would make her twenty three.
Judy thought Patches wasn't a very fitting name for such an imperious lady and
started calling her The Divine Ms. P.
It suited her.
Her health started declining about a year ago. Recently she had a great deal of
trouble walking (we carried her pretty much everywhere - she still meowed to be
carried to the litter box!)
A couple of days ago a congenital receding chin became so pronounced that she
could only eat by spoonfeeding. We knew it was time.
She was put out of her misery this afternoon. She went like a lady, without a
whimper.
Gonna miss her like heck.
Best,
frank
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