Thanks For Your Support W/my Max Options

[catlover2]

Hi all,
thanks for all the support on the loss of my beloved kitty Max. He lived a short (8 yrs) and that is what makes it hard. Did I do enough to save him? He got sick really fast and crashed hard..he was diabetic (but misdiagnosed up until a couple of weeks ago) but we couldn't regulate him and I could see him failing fast. He was getting worse by the hour. I knew I had to end his suffering and not wait until I found him dead inside the house or in a diabetic-induced coma. He lived a "larger than life" type of life...he was the best outdoor kitty. He would be in everynight w/me and has been my buddy for the last 8 years. He was here before my husband or kids! I never expected our 15+ year old cat (Sam) to outlive our other pets. Sam was my husband's cat when we got married but he is my baby too but never has or will take the place of Max. We lost our beloved lab who was barely 9 or 10 a few years ago. It is so hard...I can honestly say that I miss our dog everyday still and I miss Max terribly. I know it will get easier but the guilt kills me. I keep questioning should I have tried more options? Should I have given it more time? But, I made the best decision for him...I couldn't let him suffer any more than he already had..he had been in/out of the vet and his poor arms/legs were a pincushion. He was so badly dehydrated and lethargic, so in that respect taking him to be put down was a bit of a relief. I knew he no longer was in pain and I wasn't worried sick about him anymore. Still, no matter what losing a beloved pet is the worst. Nobody else gets it..... it was an emotional ordeal and I'm still trying to recover.
thanks again for the support, it really does make a difference! I had been on a feline diabetic website (www.yourdiabeticcat.com) to get help for Max and they were all great too, good info and lots of wonderful help/advice to get cats better. But, you know your cat the best and know when to say when. He couldn't go on the way things were (he also was believed to have pancreatic cancer)...so I know I did the right thing. Just so hard when you sign those papers to put down your animal. Yuck-
Thanks again, rest in peace to my Max and all the other beloved pets out there who I know we will see again. :)
Cheri

[toonie]

Joanne, if you and Love Them weren't judging Cat lover when you were discussing 'some people', I definitely owe you a huge apology so here it is. If it wasn't Cat Lover you were berating with the comments that you made during this time, it is unfortunate that the "some people" you talked about in the above posts happened to sound very much like Cat Lover. It makes me very sad to feel like I am one of the 'some people' but at least I don't think you will have pushed me into a dangerous situation. Thank God that when I came here at the start, after grieving for over 100 days and yes, feeling so guilty for a decision that was taken when I may have been out of touch with reality, that no one made me feel worse than I already did, I so needed your grace, I might not have been able to carry on and might not have lived to see Cat Lover's story which is so much like mine. I suppose I don't belong here and this is what was needed to show me the way out. Thanks to all of you who were so so kind, it is a lifelong lesson,
thanks you oldies but goodies, I'm thinking of all of you who shared my grief and how precious you were. Those of you who assist your pets until the very last minute, you are wonderful. Those of us who could not do as good, please have mercy on us.
Take care and au revoir.