RIP Nala

How very sad, I totally understand what you're going through. It sounds to me that whatever happened to poor little Nala was very quick, and she possibly never had any pain, but only the necropsy results will reveal what really happend.

R.I.P. Nala, and play happily at the Rainbow Bridge

I forgot to show her to you.


As morbid as it will sound, I had arranged something special for her with a company called Papilio. They offer private cremation and urn for your loved animals. I was able to assist to her cremation today in person and will be able to go pick her ashes up tomorrow. I thought it was really weird at first, but she was such a little princess and I always treated her as such, thus she deserved more, in my eye, than being thrown in the incinerator with a dozen other cats. To each his own, I suppose. Since I live in a condo and no longer have a yard, I could not bury her properly.

I miss her so much still. I just want the results of the Necropsy so I can sleep in peace and stop worrying my other bengal Simba will also die so suddenly

Thank you for all your words of encouragement, I think you are amazing to dedicate time to bring warmth to strangers in pain.

What a pretty little face Nala has

It's not morbid what you've done, i myself have instructions in my will that if my cats go after me they must have their own cremation without any "strangers", because then their ashes are being mixed in with mine and were all being scattered together

How beautiful

What a terrible shock! You came to the right place. We know what it is to love these creatures as our babies, and we hold you in our thoughts as you live through this difficult time.

RIP sweet Nala

Aww, I am so sorry for your loss. Just know that nobody here would ever mock you for being upset about your baby. We all understand your pain & care. She was very beautiful!

R.I.P. Nala, play happily at the Bridge. Your Meowmy loves you very much

I am so sorry for your loss. Nala was a gorgeous girl!!

I understand your fear about your other babies - it's only natural. Any idea when the report will be coming back yet?

When I lost Mittens, I did the same thing as you. I took her to a private crematorium. I commissioned a little boulder from a company called Poffins, had it hollowed out and put her ashes inside it and sealed the front with a little plaque. The little boulder sits by the fire in my lounge so she is with me always

I'm another one who doesn't think private cremation is morbid. Both Snowball and his companion of 10 years Midnight were privately cremated at different times. Now their ashes are in a place of honor in my home along with some pet loss poems and sympathy cards from the vet clinic.

Did you get the results from the necropsy?

I am so sorry for your loss. She was a real beauty! Everyone here at the CatSite has felt the loss of a beloved kitty, so you will never be mocked here. Play happily over the bridge Nala.

Ooooh I am so sorry. How devastating. Sending love and light.

I got the results of the necropsy.

Nala had a fractured thoracic vertebrae around T8. They also found damage around the lobe of the liver and 75ml of blood in her abdomen. The team of veterinarians (all necropsies are done by the veterinarian medical school in the province I live in) concluded she had deceased from a trauma.

It would have taken a bad fall or something heavy would have needed to fall on her. The report said the hemorrhage wasn't enough to kill her, so some sort of shock would have had to accompany the hemorrhage.

I have no idea how she could have fractured a vertebrae. Both my Bengals have always been active and always jump everywhere. There's nothing apparently dangerous in the apartment.

It was a dull, stupid accident.

I'm so sorry

RIP beautiful little Nala

Oh dear, I'm so sorry

You may never know how your girl injured herself but at least you do have some answers. Thank you for sharing her picture. Such a beautiful sweet face. I'm so sorry for your loss. May she rest in peace

I'm so sorry to hear this. When I was little my parents had a cat that ran into a snowbank and broke a vertebrae and died. It was very tragic but there was absolutely, positively nothing we could have done. Cats will be playful cats and even if you had been home, you probably still would have had the same situation on your hands, although you would have been able to say goodbye. Please don't blame yourself, Nala is at peace and now that you know that it was an accident (accidents aren't really preventable) and nothing contagious hopefully you can be at peace too.

How sad and scary. RIP Nala. she was a beautiful cat.