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Some of you may have seen the other thread where I chronicled the last few days of Dan's long life. Now he's crossed the bridge and this is his story, as far as I know it. We first met him in 2006. We often walk to the centre of the city where we live, for shopping, a restaurant or a bar...

Dan (the Man) is 18. He has heart disease and kidney disease. His vet wants to put him to sleep but we have refused because, although he is fading away before our eyes, he is not in any pain or distress and spends most of his days sleeping in the warm in a corner of the sofa. When he wakes he...

I just joined because I needed to talk about Sooty, who sadly made her last visit to the vet yesterday ("Farewell Sooty" in Crossing the Bridge). But with us we still have Sooty's sister Charlie (13 years old, tabby, adopted 7 years ago after being rescued by the RSPCA), and Danny (7 years old...

Our beautiful Sooty was put to sleep last night. A tumour growing inside her meant that she couldn't eat, although she was hungry all the time, and she was slowly dying of starvation. I can't begin to describe what a rare and special cat she was. She was so tiny that, even at 13 years old...