A Broken Heart For Christmas, I lost my dear cat just before dawn Options

[lynda]

My baby would have been 17 years old this spring. He was always so healthy and looked so good...I couldn't have known that this was going to happen.

Last month he began to lose some weight and was eating poorly, but after a vet check he seemed to be doing better with antibiotics for a bladder or kidney infection and some medication to help an overactive thyroid. Then late Christmas Eve he seemed to take a turn for the worse. For the sake of the sensitive and loving people who are reading I will not say how I could tell this...it was bad.

We rushed to the Emergency Clinic, where they placed him on IV fluids and began checking for whatever could be wrong. At 4:30 am the doctor called and said that on the ultrasounds and radiographs she had found cancer all spread through his lungs and upper body. They could keep doing more, but I had to say no, just please leave his IV in place because that would save him from having to have another needle. So about 5:00 am, I stayed with him, with his head cupped in my hand, and the vet slipped the euthanasia drug into the IV port. I told him I loved him so much, and that he was going to a place where there was no hurt, ever, and not to worry, I would see him again someday. I spoke the names of his loved ones who had passed away before him and promised him that he would see them.

Right now I wish that I could have gone with him. But better I hurt than my baby who deserved no hurt in all this world.

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[Precious' mom]

Lynda,
Please accept my condolences for you and your family. Having a cat that long is like having a child, and when they take ill and then die it's terribly hard to cope. My Precious was aged 19 years 3 days when he died this past August. He was healthy too and then all of a sudden became ill and was then diagnosed with cancer in the lungs. He died nearly three weeks afterwards. I was very heartbroken and then I discovered this group, this family of people from all areas of the globe and all walks of life who went through the same thing. All of us have endured so much but we're still healing and some of us have even added to our furry families. I adopted Patches, another cat, a little over a month after Precious died and am convinced Precious sent him to me, he has so many of his qualities and sweetness!
Please know your baby may be gone physically but the bond you shared still endures. Never forget that! Precious still sends so many signs to me. He finally appeared in a dream on New Year's (after being gone almost five months) but loves to communicate by sending signs like birds and songs on the radio. Bonds like that can't be broken by physical death, cats and other animals DO have souls. I hope yours will communicate too, it brings such peace and comfort.
God be with you!
Lisa