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]

thank you moon beam i am glad you enjoyed the pics, Lisa and I always loved and we involved them in home committee, I know it sounds mad, but we did not treat them as second class only first class. They had access to our bed when we did not need it and they knew when we wanted it back. Jasper had a blanket which he brought with him from his first home, I washed it and told him you got to share it with Misty, which he did. There were no favourites.

I always picked good food that they like, I accommodate them well, even fresh chicken and meat not scraps, if I cook for us they were involved when the food would suit them. I never gave them food that was not suitable, hence why they grew old.

So yes it was madhouse but hey it was worth it.