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Super_Ideal_Rock
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We had to put our 18-year-old kitty Bootsie to sleep today.
I''ve posted about her before; she''s had hyperthyroidism for over three years, and we''ve been successfully medicating her all along. Her little body started to give out on her this week, though. We took her in to the vet Tuesday because she had blood in her stool, and after over $500 worth of tests all we found out was that her thyroid numbers were elevated again, and she did not have any major organ failure, which we thought was a good sign. We put her on a steroid med in hopes that it would help, but she stopped eating and drinking yesterday so we knew she was really sick. Our vet believes she had cancer that was just undetectable in tests (in her intestines, she thought).
She weighed 6 pounds at her healthiest, 5 pounds in September, 4 lbs 2 ounces on Tuesday, and 3 lbs 15 ounces today. Her little body just couldn''t handle all that was going wrong, and we knew we had to say goodbye.
She was the sweetest, cuddliest little girl ever. She purred constantly, even when she was at the vet. All she wanted to do was cuddle up on my chest, jam her little face under my chin, and purr like a motor. She also loved to sit in boxes, we called her Bootsieinthebox. I adopted her and her sister Mazi (who passed away in March) when I was ten-years-old, I used my Chanukah money to pay for their adoption fees. They were less than six weeks old when we took them home, and we''ve been together ever since.
I just wanted to give my sweet little Bootsie a tribute thread on PS. I don''t have the greatest shots of her on this computer, but here''s a glimpse:
I''ve posted about her before; she''s had hyperthyroidism for over three years, and we''ve been successfully medicating her all along. Her little body started to give out on her this week, though. We took her in to the vet Tuesday because she had blood in her stool, and after over $500 worth of tests all we found out was that her thyroid numbers were elevated again, and she did not have any major organ failure, which we thought was a good sign. We put her on a steroid med in hopes that it would help, but she stopped eating and drinking yesterday so we knew she was really sick. Our vet believes she had cancer that was just undetectable in tests (in her intestines, she thought).
She weighed 6 pounds at her healthiest, 5 pounds in September, 4 lbs 2 ounces on Tuesday, and 3 lbs 15 ounces today. Her little body just couldn''t handle all that was going wrong, and we knew we had to say goodbye.
She was the sweetest, cuddliest little girl ever. She purred constantly, even when she was at the vet. All she wanted to do was cuddle up on my chest, jam her little face under my chin, and purr like a motor. She also loved to sit in boxes, we called her Bootsieinthebox. I adopted her and her sister Mazi (who passed away in March) when I was ten-years-old, I used my Chanukah money to pay for their adoption fees. They were less than six weeks old when we took them home, and we''ve been together ever since.
I just wanted to give my sweet little Bootsie a tribute thread on PS. I don''t have the greatest shots of her on this computer, but here''s a glimpse:
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