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Went to the vet last night. It was a different vet this time and she was brilliant - checked Osh over and said everything was pretty much constant with the tests they had done before. But she said with her condition it was 'never too soon' and echoed everything you lot have said really. Which was exactly what I needed to hear from a vet. As I had promised the kids a proper goodbye, I have booked it in for next Friday. Hoping she has a good last week, though got one shot of the cat heroin left if I need it.

How is your situation, nogojones ?
 
polly said:
Went to the vet last night. It was a different vet this time and she was brilliant - checked Osh over and said everything was pretty much constant with the tests they had done before. But she said with her condition it was 'never too soon' and echoed everything you lot have said really. Which was exactly what I needed to hear from a vet. As I had promised the kids a proper goodbye, I have booked it in for next Friday. Hoping she has a good last week, though got one shot of the cat heroin left if I need it.

How is your situation, nogojones ?
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Pretty much where we were. My neighbour has stabilised a bit. The cats got plenty of water and apart for having a good go on the water every day doesn't seem in pain or is acting strangely (well no more than normal). Just hope this continues.
 
polly said:
Went to the vet last night. It was a different vet this time and she was brilliant - checked Osh over and said everything was pretty much constant with the tests they had done before. But she said with her condition it was 'never too soon' and echoed everything you lot have said really. Which was exactly what I needed to hear from a vet. As I had promised the kids a proper goodbye, I have booked it in for next Friday. Hoping she has a good last week, though got one shot of the cat heroin left if I need it.

How is your situation, nogojones ?
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sorry to hear that polly :( but it does sound the right time. Hope she has a comfortable week - I spoiled Cosmo rotten for her last week.
 
nogojones said:
Pretty much where we were. My neighbour has stabilised a bit. The cats got plenty of water and apart for having a good go on the water every day doesn't seem in pain or is acting strangely (well no more than normal). Just hope this continues.
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That's good, no agonising decision to be taken yet then. Hopefully they'll be like those old couples who die naturally within a short time of each other.
 
She's gone. She had a bad couple of days this week and I was worried I'd left it too late after all this hand wringing, but in her last 24 hours she perked up and we had a few of her old favourite habits: sleeping under my legs in bed, running up the stairs in front of me and dropping down for a pet, chasing my finger through the bannisters. Feel absolutely horrible about how willingly and trustingly she got into the carrier to go to her death and ugh, the whole thing really. But it's done. Thank you all so much for letting me be angsty and giving me such good advice. I think I might have been tempted to selfishly let her carry on longer without this thread, and she was always in danger of having the last big thrombosis, which would have been agony for her.

Here she is, off her tits on catnip and being a stereotype hanging out in a bag. RIP little one.

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Such a painful thing for us to have to do - but you gave her the best love and care right up to and including the end - rest in peace little girl and condolences to you and your family xx
 
Thank you everyone x

Geri said:
I'm really sorry for your loss. I had to have both mine put to sleep recently (Jimmy in August and Sophie last month) and it is so hard to make that call.
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I'm so sorry - two in such quick succession must be really tough.
 
polly
My sympathy.
Making that decision is never easy - even when you know that it is the right thing to do - and taking Hilli to the vet was one of the hardest things I have ever had to do.
 
What made the whole thing more horrible at the vet is how they talk to you in that ultra quiet, sympathetic voice, with their head on one side. I understand why they feel they can't be all brisk but it makes my skin crawl. I'm being churlish and horrible probably but it feels fake.
 
Geri said:
It was - we were expecting it with Jimmy, as he was diagnosed with lymphoma at the start of the year, but with Sophie it was totally unexpected and sudden. I am still struggling a little with it.
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That's horrible. I'm not surprised. Do you have other pets and are you planning to get more cats?

A friend needs to rehome a cat but I'm trying to resist while we all get over Oshawott.
 
In a way, I prefer that almost fake sympathy to the brash, loud "Just get it PTS " I had once from a locum vet when Hilli was having problems periodically keeping adult food down.
I complained a bit to one of the partners, who asked me to bring her back for a second opinion, I saw a recently qualified youngster. Who was able to "cure" the problem & Hilli lived for more than another decade before age caught up with her.
 
StoneRoad said:
In a way, I prefer that almost fake sympathy to the brash, loud "Just get it PTS " I had once from a locum vet when Hilli was having problems periodically keeping adult food down.
I complained a bit to one of the partners, who asked me to bring her back for a second opinion, I saw a recently qualified youngster. Who was able to "cure" the problem & Hilli lived for more than another decade before age caught up with her.
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Fucking hell :mad:

I mean, yeah, me too, but there's quite a lot of middle ground between the two. I would prefer how you tend to be treated by doctors and nurses - with kind of straightforward humanity. But I'm not really criticising the vet, it just made me uncomfortable is all.
 
polly said:
That's horrible. I'm not surprised. Do you have other pets and are you planning to get more cats?

A friend needs to rehome a cat but I'm trying to resist while we all get over Oshawott.
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No, I am without any pets for the first time since 1996! We might get another one eventually, but like you we need time to get over it.
 
As we live next to a road that should be a fairly quiet backwater, but thanks to roadworks about 20 miles away it isn't ...
We decided not to adopt another cat, unless we could find an indoor / FIV type. Other commitments ten put that plan on the backburner ...

On the other hand, when Harry left us a decade ago, we got Ben from a rescue within four days.
As we didn't want a dog-shaped hole for too long [tried that once, it didn't work well].

However, just over a year ago we started to see a stray black and white cat up the garden, he was scared of his own shadow and woefully underweight - thanks to loads of worms etc - after extra food and flea/worm treatments he is now in good nick !
... Finally, he has now adopted us, in the current ratio of four days/nights here and one or two away [it was more like one day here and five away at first]. And he allowed Ben [the dog] to make friends, so we have been watching them play in the garden ...

So now, we have a cat, dog, loads of gerbils and two hamsters. We feed birds and hedgehogs, as well ...
 
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