My awesome black lab SAM became a diabetic for a few years then he went blind. Then he couldn't control himself. The vet put him down. His ashes are buried with my rottie. I lost my pals. I hate losing pets there like family. I just lost the very first cat I found abandoned too. It's been a rough few years. We just took in two kittens that no one wanted too. There two brothers. My three feral cats that I kind of tamed accepted them already and are playing with them. My oldest cat Rambo is the grandpa. He is getting old and going blind. I rescue abandon kittens when I go fishing. I tell them they just hit the lotto. Most are so starved there a day away from deaths door my vet says.
Once I feed them I have s buddy forever weTher it's a dog or a cat.