Chasey_Lane
Salt Life
Awww, how sad, Vrai. I'm so sorry! If you need someone to drive you to/from, let me know. :hugs:Thanks, you all, for helping me make this decision.
Is it that time?
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animalluvr4life
animal luvr
vrai....I also have an 18yr old cat myself. She still eats though and can walk around semi-ok. she hasn't made a peep yest today so I wonder what is up with her. I also haven't heard her come out to eat her food as of 7am guess she is more tired then hungry. I know the day is going to come for me too and i don't want it to come. I have to take her to the vet in a few months for shots and if she has lost more weight I think I will do the humane thing and have her pts. She weighed 7lbs 8oz the last time she was at the vet. She has never a day in her life weighed over 9lbs though (shes a calico and small and petite shes been this way since she was a baby).
Thanks!
Claudia was just under 4 lbs at her last vet check, and she used to go around 5 lbs. She lost 1/2 lb in this last year.
baileydog
I wanna be a SMIB
Vrai, Im so sorry what youre going thru. Been there, done that. It is so hard, like losing a member of the family. I myself have 5 kittys, and do not look forward to that day. You are doing right by her. Hold her and love her for a lifetime when you let her go. ill be thinking about you.
Here are some older pics of her, probably 4 years ago or so.
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Pasofever
Does my butt look big?
That sounds like the humane choice... don't you wish we could do that for our elders...
Come on mom...its time to go to the vet...
Sorry Vrai...if you need me...call...good luck will be thinking of you two
She's looking a bit scraggly. Same as Jack before she died.
She actually looks better in that pic than she does in person. When she's standing up she looks like skin and bones.
She already is a tiny peanut.
Hank
my war
Roman
Active Member
I might get some bashing from some people, but she looks alert, and pretty good to me for an 18 year-old! Yes..a little thin, but not emaciated. She also looks like she wants to go outside! Only you can tell if it is time to let go. It's just a picture, but she doesn't look like she's suffering one bit. Either way, as stated in earlier posts...you WILL make the right decision, not us. My thoughts are with you, and Claudia.
I might get some bashing from some people, but she looks alert, and pretty good to me for an 18 year-old! Yes..a little thin, but not emaciated. She also looks like she wants to go outside! Only you can tell if it is time to let go. It's just a picture, but she doesn't look like she's suffering one bit. Either way, as stated in earlier posts...you WILL make the right decision, not us. My thoughts are with you, and Claudia.
Nah, she's quite emaciated - like I said, the pic makes her look bigger than she does in person. And she absolutely doesn't want to go outside, only when it's nice and warm and she can sun herself on the deck. Cold, wet weather doesn't work for her anymore. She was watching the squirrels and probably reminiscing about the days when they wouldn't dare come into her yard or she'd disembowel them.
And she's not alert by any real definition of the word. She has dementia and most of the time has no concept of what's going on.
Has she gone deaf, too?
belvak
Happy Camper
I'm sorry Vria.
You and Claudia will be in my thoughts and prayers Friday!
Me too!!!