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I'm asking cause I still think about what my soulmate girl cat Ebony got, she had several health problems when she was rescued and I took her on, knowing the vet didn't think she would live beyond 2 years. At that time, cancer was not one of the things she had wrong with her.
4 years later, the vet found a lump in her tummy (by that point she was having breathing problems again, which the vet at first thought was her asthma playing her up again, asthma was one thing she had when she was rescued with her kittens, most of her kittens did not survive long enough for rescue to help them, all but 2 were found passed away with Ebony, Ebony and the two survivors were rushed to the vet. Kittens both made full recoveries, but Ebony herself was in that bad a condition, the vets at first did not think she would make it. They tried though and after they had done everything they could, they said they didn't think she would last for longer than another 2 years. We think she had given everything she had, to make sure her kittens had a chance of life (she was a amazing mum to them, to the point she had to be seperated from them partly so they would eat solid food and partly because mastitis was something she had back then, on top of all her other health problems, so they had to be given bottled milk while they were being weaned from her, she kept trying to have them nurse even when her milk would not of been the best thing for them, even after seperation from her kittens she would try to get to them to check on them, only letting up once she had seen and smelled them and knew they were okay
It's known that at some point her ribs had been broke, vet thought someone had hit her with something, despite this, she was willing to trust humans, after first staying back and watching from a distance, nobody could pick her up, she was too worried for that in case she had to run to get away from any danger.
The lump in her tummy that was found, it was proved had spread to her lungs and by the time she was showing symptoms (breathing trouble first, then fits), the vet thought the cancer had got into her brain from her lungs, he scanned her chest and tummy and found the cancer had really taken hold in her lungs and tummy area.
I still think about her a lot, and wonder could I have stopped her from getting the cancer? Her other health problems were managable, with a special diet and medications, but the cancer the vet said the only thing that could be done for her, with her history of her health problems, was euthanasia
So on the 2nd of March 2018, same day as the scan, I held her as I said goodbye to her
I chose not to get her ashes back, instead I donated that money to rescue, cause my thinking at the time was "getting her ashes back won't help anyone or any cat, but giving the money it would cost to a rescue, will help save other cats who can be helped"
Everyone who knew her loved her, she was one of a kind, not many cats who went through such violent abuse and neglect would ever trust humans again, but she chose to place her trust in us and let us help her and her kittens, those two kittens that survived.
4 years later, the vet found a lump in her tummy (by that point she was having breathing problems again, which the vet at first thought was her asthma playing her up again, asthma was one thing she had when she was rescued with her kittens, most of her kittens did not survive long enough for rescue to help them, all but 2 were found passed away with Ebony, Ebony and the two survivors were rushed to the vet. Kittens both made full recoveries, but Ebony herself was in that bad a condition, the vets at first did not think she would make it. They tried though and after they had done everything they could, they said they didn't think she would last for longer than another 2 years. We think she had given everything she had, to make sure her kittens had a chance of life (she was a amazing mum to them, to the point she had to be seperated from them partly so they would eat solid food and partly because mastitis was something she had back then, on top of all her other health problems, so they had to be given bottled milk while they were being weaned from her, she kept trying to have them nurse even when her milk would not of been the best thing for them, even after seperation from her kittens she would try to get to them to check on them, only letting up once she had seen and smelled them and knew they were okay
It's known that at some point her ribs had been broke, vet thought someone had hit her with something, despite this, she was willing to trust humans, after first staying back and watching from a distance, nobody could pick her up, she was too worried for that in case she had to run to get away from any danger.
The lump in her tummy that was found, it was proved had spread to her lungs and by the time she was showing symptoms (breathing trouble first, then fits), the vet thought the cancer had got into her brain from her lungs, he scanned her chest and tummy and found the cancer had really taken hold in her lungs and tummy area.
I still think about her a lot, and wonder could I have stopped her from getting the cancer? Her other health problems were managable, with a special diet and medications, but the cancer the vet said the only thing that could be done for her, with her history of her health problems, was euthanasia
So on the 2nd of March 2018, same day as the scan, I held her as I said goodbye to her
I chose not to get her ashes back, instead I donated that money to rescue, cause my thinking at the time was "getting her ashes back won't help anyone or any cat, but giving the money it would cost to a rescue, will help save other cats who can be helped"
Everyone who knew her loved her, she was one of a kind, not many cats who went through such violent abuse and neglect would ever trust humans again, but she chose to place her trust in us and let us help her and her kittens, those two kittens that survived.