Rassy cat & Howard, Sick with kidney failure Options

[jackjackbojack]

**Joanne (jackjackbojack is a new member here. Two of her precious furkids (Rassy cat & Howard ) are very ill with kidney failure. With Joanne's permission, I'll do my best to get her posts together (along with their replies), so that she can have her own thread. **

*****************************************

My two babies are dying of Kidney failure. There is just so little time left. My Rassy cat is 18.5 years old. My Howard is 16. I have been through this once before with my kittywillow. People here are so compassionate and kind. I can't stand it when people say to me its just a cat. Its not. These are my babies. I know how much joy those special little ones bring into our lives.

We enclosed our patios and made them into cat rooms. (We have one upstairs and one downstairs. We refer to our cats as the ups and downs. My up cats will soon cross over the Rainbow. All I will have are some pictures and lots of wonderful memories.

I don't want them to suffer. Rassy cat is still holding on. I know he doesn't want to leave me. Howard still has some time left before the curtain falls. I told Rassy Cat whenever he feels its time, to just let go. I would much prefer to see him die peacefully in his sleep rather than having to put either down. Howard is so attached to Ras, and sick that we might put him down just so he doesn't have to suffer the heartbreak of loosing his best friend esp in his condition.

I just continue to check on my babies. Rassy cat sleeps so soundly. I just keep checking to see if he will wake up. I try not to cry in front of him. He knows how much I adore him. And the last thing I would ever want to do is keep him alive if he is in pain.

Today, I told him, whenever you are ready to let go, its ok. Always know, I love you as much as life itself.

[Muffins]

Dear (((((((Joanne)))))))

Early in the morning I spent an hour posting a PM to you, and more often than not if it's a long one, I tell myself to "make a copy & paste it", so that if something should happen to my computer, I will have it. Well, I didn't copy/paste, and the whole thing was lost. For another 1/2 hour I tried to get into LS, but for some reason, I wasn't able to.

Last night you helped your precious boy, Rassy Cat leave his painful & ailing body. You gave him the most loving gift -- the gift of peace. Sometimes we can pray & pray and hope that our beloved babies go in their sleep, but.....when that doesn't happen and we see our kids suffering beyond belief, it then becomes our "job" to help them. I know that your sweet & loving Rassy Cat thanks you & loves you so very, very much for helping him.
Please remember that he will always be with you, he will live on in your heart.

When I came here 3 & 3/4 years ago, after having helped my sweet girl Ernestine go from this life to the next, a wonderful member here at LS said to me, "Denise, you took on her pain so that she could finally be without pain". It finally made all the sense in the world to me.
Which one of us here wouldn't take on the pain of our precious kids, so that they could be without pain? I know that we all would. And, you did that for your boy Rassy Cat .

Cry all you want, please -- the tears that are flowing are "healing tears", and they will help you. I'm sure that your sweet girl Mew and all of your other furcats are grieving, each in their own way.

I said a prayer to my precious girl Ernie-Bird that she meet up with Rassy Cat at Rainbow's Bridge to greet him & show him the ropes up there. I know that he will have his Angel Wings before long...

Sending you comfort & many hugs,

Denise