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Well, my day did not start off well. I had to take my girl cat in to the vet to have her checked out. She had been having breathing, eating and drinking problems. She was pooping outside of her litter box for the last couple of weeks. I had told them to keep the tests to a minimum. I'm not dumping thousands of dollars on a dying cat. They agreed and lowered the office visit charge and slimmed down the blood tests to three vital ones. They had difficulty drawing blood. After giving her fluids, because she was dehydrated, they tried to get the rest of the vials. Nope. She started freaking out. They got a towel to help hold her down, but she started really freaking out. I tried helping by holding her down, but she bit through my finger. Finally, the doc said that her signs pointed to something with her heart. I agreed to have her put down right then. Anyways... I cried on my way out with an empty cat carrier. We had just celebrated our 14th anniversary of living together just a few weeks ago. Her son isn't freaking out. He's about to turn 14 in 3 1/2 weeks.
 
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Last pic I took of her
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So sorry to hear. Reminds me a lot of what I went through with my cat. I noticed her walking really weakly and dragging her legs and her stance was really odd and I just had a bad feeling something was not right so brought her to the vet first thing the next morning. Long story short her kidneys were more or less completely failed. 1st appointment they did bloodwork and urine test and gave her fluids, and made follow up appointment for next day. She was not better and I decided given the state of her kidneys it was time and did it right there and then. My mom came with me, it was actually my mom that picked her up as a kitten years later at the same place.

Been a few months but it still sometimes hits me. I have her ashes on the dresser in the spare room, which was basically her room since that's where the litter box was and where I put all her toys etc.

I'm actually thinking of moving my office into that room because it's bigger, and then making the current office the cat room once I get another cat.
 
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Lifer
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So sorry to hear. Reminds me a lot of what I went through with my cat. I noticed her walking really weakly and dragging her legs and her stance was really odd and I just had a bad feeling something was not right so brought her to the vet first thing the next morning. Long story short her kidneys were more or less completely failed. 1st appointment they did bloodwork and urine test and gave her fluids, and made follow up appointment for next day. She was not better and I decided given the state of her kidneys it was time and did it right there and then. My mom came with me, it was actually my mom that kicked her up as a kitten years later at the same place.

Been a few months but it still sometimes hits me. I have her ashes on the dresser in the spare room, which was basically her room since that's where the litter box was and where I put all her toys etc.

I'm actually thinking of moving my office into that room because it's bigger, and then making the current office the cat room once I get another cat.
Thanks squirrel
 

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Lifer
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On a good note, I'm on my way to Denton. Got me a date for tonight! That doesn't happen too often for me. Not like you swinging bachelors on the board. I actually put on jeans which for me is dressing up. Lol
 

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who was the fat angry fuck that said "your mom" in ever other post?
I think somebody photoshopped his body on a ballerina.