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Jack's passing was not as smooth as I would have liked, I wish I would have known to not let him eat before the tranquilizer, he threw up from it, he had been throwing up a lot from CRF anyway, but due to the nausea he was trying to get away from me a bit at the end :-( About 5 seconds or so...

Yea, that is what I have to keep in mind. Thanks for your kind words

Jack slept well through the night, I'm glad we waited till this morning. He left us at about 9:15, and unfortunately I had to take my wife to the airport at 10:00 and she is now out of town for a week, this really sucks.

All in all I have been to down about all this, yes, it truly sucks and hurts a lot, but damn, I wouldn't want people being all bummed when I go, and I know Jack doesn't either. Amazingly enough Jack has been doing quite well today, went mousing for a while earlier today, been cuddling with...

Last night was rough, Jack is hurting pretty bad. I just got off the phone with the vet, she will be making a house call at 8:00 this evening. I hope the clouds will part today so Jack can sleep on the windowsill with some sunshine, he is our passive solar cat after all, being all black...

For some time now we have been doing 100ml a day with 20 gauge terumo needles, he likes those far better than the 18 gauge needles we were using, and the fluids don't leak back out when I pull the needle out. I have come to grips with the fact that the end is near, but my eyes are still...

All in all he has done pretty well, he was diagnosed in november and his kidneys were bad then so we've gotten quite a bit of extra time really. I know the end in fairly close now, and it is inevitable. I do feel lucky to have been able to spend 11 years with such a cool cat Pic from this...

Just got back from the vet, blood numbers were terrible, BUN 177 and Cre 9.5, and I had given him sub-q fluids not long before I went to the vets which lower the numbers. The vet is thinking that we can expect another week before he fully hits the wall, and she gave me some anti nausea shots...

About a year ago, 3 months ago he was still about 11.

Yes, a lot, down to maybe 7 or 7.5 pounds, he used to be 15, but all muscle, he was pretty much the arnold schwartzenegger of cats. Now he looks like he is made of sticks...

Jack is not doing well, we're going to the vet today for a blood panel, I think we might have the vet make a house call tomorrow... His last blood panel was 2.5 weeks ago, bun was over 140 (their machine does not read over 140) and cre was 5.5, RBC has been good with epo, and we have his...

Wooo WOOOO!!!!!

Drinking a lot is a sign of kidney problems, but it is good that she is peeing a lot as well. Get a blood panel done ASAP.

To the vet for a blood test, IMO.

There is no food that Jack would rather eat, but our other cat has no interest in mice, fwiw.

Do you mean that if he was not an indoor/outdoor cat eating mice he might not have CRF? I suppose that a possibility, but I know of a couple in/out cats around here that lived to ~20, one of them put jack to shame in the mousing department, 5-6 a day in the summer, Garf was BIG and kinda fat...

Jack has CRF, he was diagnosed a few months ago, but he is doing pretty well now, Sub-qs every other day, pepcid at night, some B vitamins, some phosphorus binder and some baking soda. Hes actually doing really well. I got a lot of help from the yahoo group, fwiw. Well spring is showing up...

We live on 2 acres and have a cat door that is unlocked all the time, they love sneaking around in the sage brush/aspen trees. Jack keeps the rodent population down (~200 mice a summer, lots of snow in the winter though) and Leenya just likes to go sleep under the lilac bush, she even has her...

Jack is doing quite well lately. I was out of town for a week and a half and got back about a week ago, in the first hour I was home Jack jumped into my arms 5 times he played a bunch of fetch, and was just spazzing out in general. Right after I left about 2.5 weeks ago our vet got some...

Eeekkkk! You are getting some in your order I assume? $5 from our vet.