I Am Feeling Guilty For Putting My Cat To Sleep Aged 16 Options

[djbrooks]

Hi there it is nice we have the internet to find sites like this that bring such love and devotion to our pets. Thank you for letting me come here.

Friday my wife and I made a difficult decision to put our beloved Misty to sleep she was 16. Last May we had to put our other friend Jasper to sleep at 12 as he had major problems with his bowels and throughout his life had to have a clean out. Since he left, Misty became rather distressed with her life, she could not settle, she ate more than she used too and my wife and I were also unhappy. We stuck with it till now and I just woke up and said something is not right and I could not bear seeing her like that. She used to be a relaxed cat doing what cats do and she loved jasper as they were always on the bed together.

Misty did have a thyroid removed a few years back as she became unsettled, wanting food all the time and we think it might have been the other thyroid, we thought that at 16 she was too old to keep poking her about, so I said to my wife, what do you think, it is decision we both got to make and live with it. I told the vet what was going on and thought she was no longer happy and would be wise to put her to sleep. The vet did not even take her out of the box and she just accepted our wishes. Vets I thought never put down a cat unless it was necessary, but she gave us option of blood tests, but maybe I was selfish for my own ends and just wanted out. I do not know. I now feel guilty.

I am an animal person and I do relate to animals better than humans, my wife seems to have accepted it, but I am racked with guilt and seeing misty slipping into a sleep. What have I done. You cannot go back. The home is now empty it is a void.

Misty came with us from our ground floor flat which we had a garden, we then moved to a first floor flat with a communal garden, when we had Jasper he was blind, I think she was not bothered about going out as she was being a mother to him, she washed and cleaned him. we loved them both, maybe she was no longer happy.

She just kept on and on and she would sit with a paw stuck up begging me for something, I always took her down and let her out as we thought it would be good for her, she never went far. So I do not know. She also started coming to the toilet with us, I always had her on my chest when watching telly, she always came and sat between us in bed and we loved each others company, I even woke up one day and she was sleeping with her head on the pillow, like I had a second wife, she was badly abused when we rescued her and she was loved.

[djbrooks]

I have sent a message to the other world that Jasper and Misty will always have a home in spirit if they need to drop by for some comfort. I have asked them that have gone ahead of us to keep an eye on them.

Thank you Aaron for that, it was a great comfort to read it and yes we need to focus on the good times.

I have put there pics up on flickr for safety in case our computers go pop. If you know how to use flickr my username is davidbrooks4060. It is open to the public to see there pics in full.

Misty was also a star in our local council tenant newspaper. I treated all my animals like humans. Misty is the black one, Jasper is the tabby, he was something special too, we had to say goodbye to him last May. He was blind and had his problems, but we kept with it till his last moments. I had to free him from his suffering.

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