I just needed to tell some other cat lovers about my sad news yesterday. First of all my sister's surgery to have a hysterectomy didn't go as planned so she has to go back in September to have it done. She has endometriosis really bad. Secondly, yesterday my mom had to take a cat that we've had for 16 years to the vet to be put to sleep. She's been around since I was about 7 or 8. I kept her for 3 years or so while I was in college until my mom wanted to have her back.
I live two hours away now so this was on the phone. My mom said she wasn't eating the past week at all or using her litter box. She was also acting really weird, like sleeping in weird places. Every 5 or 10 minutes she would be laying somewhere else in the house until finally she just stayed in my parents closet on saturday and moved from wall to wall in there, changing where she layed. Yesterday she wasn't being responsive. My mom thought she had already died laying in the hallway then she saw she was breathing. She said she picked her up and she was really stiff like she was already almost gone. The cat usually had a really loud purr whenever someone touched her and liked to meow a lot as well but my mom said that she couldn't hardly even meow at all yesterday or purr. She didn't want her to suffer any longer so she decided to go ahead and take her to the vet. The vet told her that Sabrina was having kidney failure. They said that's pretty common in older cats.
I already have a friend that doesn't live to far from my mom say that she found two orange kittens under her dad's house if my mom wanted one but my mom is swearing off cats forever after this incident. She doesn't want to have to go through putting another cat to sleep like that. I don't blame her but hopefully she'll want a cat again in the future. I know nothing makes me happier than a kitty. She's going to go donate the cat litter and food that she has to the local animal shelter for now though.
I live two hours away now so this was on the phone. My mom said she wasn't eating the past week at all or using her litter box. She was also acting really weird, like sleeping in weird places. Every 5 or 10 minutes she would be laying somewhere else in the house until finally she just stayed in my parents closet on saturday and moved from wall to wall in there, changing where she layed. Yesterday she wasn't being responsive. My mom thought she had already died laying in the hallway then she saw she was breathing. She said she picked her up and she was really stiff like she was already almost gone. The cat usually had a really loud purr whenever someone touched her and liked to meow a lot as well but my mom said that she couldn't hardly even meow at all yesterday or purr. She didn't want her to suffer any longer so she decided to go ahead and take her to the vet. The vet told her that Sabrina was having kidney failure. They said that's pretty common in older cats.
I already have a friend that doesn't live to far from my mom say that she found two orange kittens under her dad's house if my mom wanted one but my mom is swearing off cats forever after this incident. She doesn't want to have to go through putting another cat to sleep like that. I don't blame her but hopefully she'll want a cat again in the future. I know nothing makes me happier than a kitty. She's going to go donate the cat litter and food that she has to the local animal shelter for now though.