Axl; The Worlds Most Wonderful Cat, Died from being neutered. Options

[Axl]

I can't get past this. Today is day 3. I took him for what EVERYONE says is the right thing to do. And he died from it! My pooor sweet baby. He was only 10 months old, adopted him when he was 6 weeks old, and at a time in my life when I needed him more than he needed me. I still need him. I arranged the neutring through the Humane Society. It was free and at a vet I had to drive over an hour to get to. In addition, while I had Axl, I adopted Rose. I only adopted Rose so Axl would have a friend. I had her spayed the same day as she was approaching 6 months. On the Monday following the procedure I called t he vet because it appeared Axl still had one testicle. They TOLD me they only remove one and do a similar procedure as to a vasectomy to disable the other. Axl was slow moving, but eating and drinking. Evertime I picked up Rose, she would pee. So, we make it through the week, Axl appeared to be better, (except he was a one testicle cat), Rose was still peeing sometimes, then Saturday morning I found Axl, laid out, stiff and dead. It was the worst thing ever.

I wrapped him and said my goodbyes, and still can't stop crying if he enters my mind.

I don't even want Rose. I am taking care of her, but she was Axl's cat.

I called the vet today and told him, and he said NOBODY would have told me that only one testicle was removed. And he had never had a cat die from being neutered. Mine is dead.

I am beside myself. I halfway want to give Rose away. And I am so angry at the injustice. We are preached at to get our pets neutred, and mine dies from it.

I miss him so much, I can't believe he is never coming back. He was one cool cat with the longest tail you'd ever see.

[Axl]

Hi everybody! Thought I would post an update. Axl's death is approaching a one month anniversary.Although I still miss him terribly, my heart is healing. It still makes so sad to think of him or see pictures of him. But I can think of him without crying my eyes out. He should be still alive, we still don't know exactly why he died. The vet is adament that he removed both testicles, and that it was 1 week after neutering that he passed away. He was found stretched out on his side in the middle of a yard, dead. There were no injury's visiable. Many people are telling me he got hit by a car and then died, or he got into something posinous. I always thought cats went into hiding to die if they were hurting. I have no idea how or why he died. That bothers me a lot. He was only 10 months old. But boy did he have personality.

That left me with Rose. At first I resented her, but the day after Axl's death she escaped for about 1 day and 1/2. During that time I was freaking out that i had lost BOTH cats in a matter of days. Rose is not used to outdoors, she had just been spayed, and she was missing Axl. But she came home, and I was so relieved that I realized I do indeed love her very much. She is my crazy cat though. She is about 6 months old and solid gray.

Well last Thursday she slipped out again! I was beside myself because during this time, Rose and I had gotten very close. She follows me everywhere, attacks out of nowhere, and her weird habits were visible to me as I moved through the house. (toys in her waterdish, etc). She was gone Thursday, Thursday night, all day Friday. I went through the neighboorhood calling and calling, Every time I was home every hour or so I would go to the porch and call her. Well Friday night, I got home about 10:30 and she still wasn't home. At that time I KNEW she was dead. I cried and cried for her. Prayed for her, and asked God to PLEASE return her to me. My house was so lonely and laughless without her. I got on line and about every 30 min or so, would go to the porch and call her. NOTHING. Then at 2:00 am I was still up becuase I knew this night was the cutoff. If she didn't come home tonight, I believed she would never come back. At 2 I went out and called her again, nothing. But then, as I was turning to go in, and shut the door, she appeared on the porch! OMG I was beside myself with joy! I couldn't believe it! There she was! I let her in, picked her up and loved on her and she was purring. I put her down and off she went to her food. I got back in bed, and unlike her, she came up and sat on my chest and just rubbed my face, begging for me to pet her, putting her paws on my face, rubbing her head against my face, I was so covered in cat hair by the time she was through! She never acts like that! I think she was so happy to be home. I loved on her for at least an hour, of pure attention to her and she ate it all up.

Things are very different between Rose and I. I accept her 'disabilities' with joy. She is different. I set my keys down, and ask her to knock them off. She does. Everything is cute now, not irritating. And she has started sleeping ON me which is different.

I don't know if she still remembers Axl, but she is doing very well. We both are.

RIP sweet sweet Axl.