Had to have my old cat euthanized..

[Skeet 028]

Euthanized...hell of a word. The pld boy was near 19 as well as we can figure. One of many strays we were feeding/catching neutering. Couldn't catch him..Came up one day all chewed up after a fight with a coon. He let my wife fix him up fed up and he decided it was a pretty good gig...He still got THE trip to the vet though. Had a stroke was getting over it mostly and had another. Good cat that seemed to appreciate owning us. Gonna miss the ol buzzard

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

Please lookup the the Rainbow Bridge...........Been there. Its not easy.

 

[Martyk]

My condolences on your loss. Our four footed friends, (cats & dogs) work their way into our hearts and leave a painful void when their "tent wears out" I've got two house cats, a 15yr old female and a soon to be 9yr old male that my wife asked me to take care of and let them live their natural life(s) out before she passed.

 

[mckenney99]

Sorry to hear of your loss. It amazes me how attached we can become to animals. Animals do seem to recognize when someone has treated them with kindness when they are injured or in pain and then respond with their own version of love, even cats. May he Rest In Peace. I believe you will see him again, he will be healthy and waiting to welcome you.

 

[Smoke]

I know these are all pictures of dogs but it applies just as much to cats

 

[Rustyt1953]

I understand. In 44 years of adopting rescues we have said goodbye to 18 cats and 2 dogs.

Each one left a distinctive hole in our hearts.

 

[llowry61]

I'm sorry for your loss. It is a heart wrenching experience that we all dread.

Pets are such good friends. I was at the point of never going through it again, but my wife changed that. I know it will be hard when the time comes so I hug them a little harder and cherish those special moments a bit more knowing that they don't last forever.

 

[DWalt]

We have always had at least two cats, occasionally three, presently two. Our Queen is around 10, we assume, and extremely well behaved and ladylike, also very talkative. She constantly talks to us but in a cat language we can’t understand. The tom is an orange tabby, also around ten. He tends toward hyperactivity, and we need to give him half a tranquilizer pill every night. These two have never been friends, but at least they don’t fight. I don’t know how we could go on with not having them. I don’t remember ever taking a cat on a final ride to the vet. We have just let them expire at home. Last time was about four years ago when we took in my deceased B-I-Ls elderly cat after he died. What else could we do? She died peacefully in her bed.

 

[YouveHadYour6]

Hope things clear up for you; losing a good cat or dog hurts in a unique way. :/

Stay safe and be well.

 

[Rudi]

Not much is harder than this. He loved you. He lived better than billions of humans.

 

[JcMack]

I live in a small townhouse. I like small dogs. Small dogs make small poop. In the last 30 years I've had 5 little, under 12lb dogs. I've had to have 3 put down due to age related insurmountable health issues. The longer they're with you, the harder it is when they come to the end of the road. The one I have now I rescued almost 2 yrs ago and he will be 11 soon.

 

[madmikeb]

Sorry to hear of your loss, it's tough to lose a companion.
I'm up to 9 cats now. 6 indoor cats that I brought with me from Maine, all rescues, and 3 outdoor strays that found me and are staying around. There is nothing I hate more than losing one. Of my 6 indoor cats two are 12, two are 10, and two are about 18 months. I know I will have some tough times ahead when I start losing the seniors, I'll probably lose 4 in short order.

I have no idea how old the strays are as 6' is about as close as they'll let me get, I don't think they are very old though. 1 has a clipped ear so I think he's (shes?) been through a tnr program. I keep them fed and watered and I'll talk to them, maybe someday I'll get to approach them! They've only been around a few months.

 

[Doug M.]

There are few people I miss as much as the dogs and cat we have had over the years. The loss of the critters has always hit me hard.

 

[blackdeuce]

Not many things are worse than losing a pet. One exception is watching your kids lose a pet. That's a tough one.

 

[cruiserdan]

I had to say goodbye to my dog last week. It's never easy.

 

[AJ]

We were up to five cats at one point. All were inside cats. In the last couple of years we lost three. Never an easy thing to do to have them ut down. Our oldest is 21 right now, still spry and able to jump up on things, have had him snice he was a kitten (his Mother belonged to my daughter and I got pick of the litter, all the others are gone now,). Felt extremely bad when the others passed, when t ld Man goes I expect to feel like I lost my best friend, which he is!!

Skeet, sorry to be long winded. Wish you all the best.

AJ

 

[olfart]

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I know these are all pictures of dogs but it applies just as much to cats

Sorry for your loss. As Smoke said, adopt another one at the first opportunity and begin a new journey with a new family member.

All of ours have adopted us. Showed up on our doorstep and refused to leave, thus becoming family members. Our current two cats were born in our garage to a stray (wild) cat that we could not tame. We brought the babies in and hand fed them. We gave one to a friend and kept the other 4, and two of those have since died.

 

[Mike LaNier]

Indeed sad. We have a 21 year-old 'Snowshoe' cat, named Poki (Hawaiian for 'cat') who is on her last legs. Losing her will be like losing a kid... they have such a way of wiggling their way into your heart! I always try to remember: Dogs have owners; Cats have 'Staff'~!

 

[oldbrownhat]

BTDT. Hurts like hell, even when we try to rermind ourselves how much joy they have brought us (and hopefully vice versa.) I had to have "old Joe" put down in Jan. 2017 at about 15 due to renal failurre. He had "migrated" from the neighbour's next door many years before and just settled in. Just "a good old tom."

 

[DWalt]

Sorry for your loss. As Smoke said, adopt another one at the first opportunity and begin a new journey with a new family member.

All of ours have adopted us. Showed up on our doorstep and refused to leave, thus becoming family members. Our current two cats were born in our garage to a stray (wild) cat that we could not tame. We brought the babies in and hand fed them. We gave one to a friend and kept the other 4, and two of those have since died.

We have come into a least a half dozen cats that chose our house. Including one of those we now have. She just kept showing up on our front porch every day and we finally let her in. Some years ago I found a cute Siamese Tom kitten under my car in the driveway. He was perched on the rear axle. So we named him Axle. A strange cat, he never wanted to come inside the house. He lived entirely outside, always either in a large oak in our back yard or on our house roof. He lived on tree and roof rats, common here. All we ever did was leave water out for him. He wasn’t actually feral, as he didn’t wander, always was in the back yard tree or on the roof.