The Last Day

[purpletigron]

When I went downstairs, SK had failed to make it all the way to the litter tray for only the third time in this illness, and was uncomfortable and dirty on the warm patch. Once cleaned, SK seemed to enjoy the raw liver and fresh water, and should be more comfortable now.

I decided several weeks ago that when SK could no longer get to the litter tray, it would be time, and the look in those kitty eyes seems to agree with me. So G and I will be holding SK's paw this morning when the vet adminsters the lethal injection, and then we will bring SK home to be buried under the rowan tree.

Yes, I'm weeping as I type.

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[the-magician.livejournal.com]

As others have said, hugs and sympathy.

Another of my friends is going through the same thing with one of her dogs ... the vetinary hospital said Sandy had between two weeks and two months left to live (a cancer in a gland plus a "mass" of some sort in the heart) and that was over two weeks ago.

They are spending as much time together as possible in the time that is left and Sandy is being taken for car rides (which she loves!) as much as possible ... but she is getting less and less mobile and has lost a lot of her appetite ... and the difficult thing to know is when to hold on and when to let go ... it seems to me you've doing precisely the right thing at the right time (and still I have tears in my eyes typing this) and that SK will be much happier chasing the butterflies in kitty-heaven than she would if you stretched her existence out here on earth.

And it's always good to be able to say "goodbye" while there's an ear to hear it.

::hugs::

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

[FX: Nods]

It is so awful to have this power of death over animals... and to see them slowly slipping away with disease :-(

Hugs all round!