My sweet Matteo

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Aw, what sad news. I'm so sorry to hear your beautiful boy has moved on.   It's always especially hard when they are so young and heartbreaking when most of their young lives is spent being ill.  I know how helpless you must have felt trying to bring him to health, when it just wasn't meant to be.  Please know that in giving him a home and caring for him, you gave him a great gift.   For now, your heart is grieving but some day, perhaps you can find some comfort in that. 

RIP Sweet baby Matteo.   
 

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I'm sorry you've lost your beautiful little friend. I'm sure he hung in there for so long because of your love and attention.
 

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Your sweet Matteo received the greatest gift of all, your love. You were there for him and that is all he ever wanted. You gave him a home and comfort when he was scared and oh so sick, you tried to cure the incurable and that is all he could ever asked for. It shatters our hearts when we have to say goodbye to a loved one who we nursed and had such hopes for, this is never the end we dreamed of. But you gave little Matteo a good life, he gave you his love and happy moments that you will cherish for the rest of yours. The bond you have formed will follow your life's journey for eternity for it is spiritual. Though the physical body is frail and loses it battle with earthly suffering, your sweet boy's pain has ended and his tiny soul soars free and whole once more. Do not dwell on the end, but celebrate what that beautiful boy brought into your life, he was in it for a reason. To never have known him would have been a tragedy. I cry with you for your loss and the emptiness it brings. I will never understand why bad things happen to good people, why there can't always be a happy ending. I'll pray for you both to find peace and that your broken heart will find happiness once more, just as he would want for the one he loves so much. Take care.........RIP sweet, sweet, Matteo. You have earned your beautiful white angel wings. May your pure light shine down upon the one who misses you so much. May your kisses come softly on the warm summer breeze to bring comfort to the one who cries for you now. Sleep tight, brave little Prince!
 

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What a cute little fella, so sorry that he left you.....for some reason you'll probably never know, it just wasn't meant to be. He is in Heaven now, not sick anymore but healthy, and he loves you and thanks you for your love and taking care of him.

So sorry that you lost your baby boy, God Bless.......
 
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In the morning it'll be a week since I lost my boy. I'm still so heartbroken, every night I go to bed and cry because he's not next to me. I've lost two other kitties in the past, one three years ago and one just 8 months ago. Even though I was sad when they died and I still miss them, they both lived long, happy lives and both passed at 14 from cancer. I feel like I failed Teo. Poor little baby didn't even make it to his first birthday. I was so focused on making him better that I never accepted the possibility that he might not recover. I still think about what we could have tried or treatments that could have been done sooner.
 

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In the morning it'll be a week since I lost my boy. I'm still so heartbroken, every night I go to bed and cry because he's not next to me. I've lost two other kitties in the past, one three years ago and one just 8 months ago. Even though I was sad when they died and I still miss them, they both lived long, happy lives and both passed at 14 from cancer. I feel like I failed Teo. Poor little baby didn't even make it to his first birthday. I was so focused on making him better that I never accepted the possibility that he might not recover. I still think about what we could have tried or treatments that could have been done sooner.
You have no need to feel guilty about anything.  People go through the "what ifs" and "if onlies" all the time when they lose a cat but you really have no reason to doubt yourself at all.  You tried your best to save Teo but it wasn't meant to be.  If anything, your efforts enabled him to add a few months to his life and enjoy being loved by someone who really treasured him.  Please try to stop torturing yourself wondering what you could have done differently.  It only adds to your pain, does nothing for Teo and doesn't even apply to your situation.  You were there for your darling boy in a big way and, in giving him your love and a home, gave him all he could ask for.  He wouldn't want you to hurt so much.  You were his beloved human and he would only want to see you happy. 
 

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I don't know if this helps. But when I had a sick kitty I had to have put down and I felt guilty, I decided I would save other kitties in honor of him. Since then I have fostered kitties and done TNR. I don't know if that makes sense, but it made me feel better.
 
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