HollyS
Ideal_Rock
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We've been waiting and watching as our kitty went through the final stages of her life. She has died of leukemia, as some older cats will do. She passed rather peacefully, at home, at 6:15 this morning. Her daddy and I spent lots of quality time with her all weekend, and last week.
DH stayed up with her last night, and was with her in her final moments. He thought he came to wake me up in time, but I think she had just died when I went in to see her. That's okay, though. It would have been much harder on me to see those final hours and imagine that she had suffered any pain. I'm very grateful that we did not have to put her in her carrier and take her in for The Shot. It was so much less traumatic for her and for us this way.
Friends of ours have a pet cremation service. We will have her with us always in a little cedar box with an engraved nameplate. Neither of us wanted to bury her in the backyard.
I've been through this before, but it never really gets any easier. But, that's how you know you have loved your pet the way they deserve to be loved - - as family.
DH stayed up with her last night, and was with her in her final moments. He thought he came to wake me up in time, but I think she had just died when I went in to see her. That's okay, though. It would have been much harder on me to see those final hours and imagine that she had suffered any pain. I'm very grateful that we did not have to put her in her carrier and take her in for The Shot. It was so much less traumatic for her and for us this way.
Friends of ours have a pet cremation service. We will have her with us always in a little cedar box with an engraved nameplate. Neither of us wanted to bury her in the backyard.
I've been through this before, but it never really gets any easier. But, that's how you know you have loved your pet the way they deserve to be loved - - as family.