Someone posted that they had talked to their failing feline friend....about crossing the Rainbow Bridge found at the end of Butterfly Lane.
Aww...what a sweet sentiment....I just wish it were as simple! I do long for Heaven to hold our precious furry friends! I guess one day - we'll all know.......the day when God calls us home. Til then though - I'll just wonder. But I'm not optimistic.
I talked to the vet and after hours fees are considerably higher in cost than the normal fees charged. I would have done anything this morning - as Snickers was struggling ferociously to breathe. It broke my heart. But she has settle down some - and although she is shallow in her breathing - she continues to purr like a motor boat. So I have decided to postpone her fate....and she will live one more day.
In some ways I feel like such a villian...in other ways though - I feel like I'm being merciful. I don't want her to struggle as she takes her last breath!
I have never sat on a death watch vigil for a cat before - and it's just not easy seeing my 16 year furry friend slowly decline. I've tried for days to get her take some water....or liquid the liquid from her packaged food, but she turns her back on me every time.
Tomorrow the nursery/landscape company is coming to dig a hole for the tree...and then I will take Snick in to the vet....so she can gently go to sleep without effort! My precious Snick. Really my snobby Snick - that would pop and snap at my grandchildren. She was a STINKER! Obstinate! Hard to get along with! Such a snob - as she wouldn't come to you very well. But she was my buddy - and slept with me...and kept me company. (I usually had to watch where I walked because she was in the same room wherever I was - and a lot of times - right under my feet! Sometimes I would nearly step on her - and DID on occassions!) She LOVED her Snick-snacks - so we called them. But now - today - she won't touch a thing - and hasn't eaten in a week. I tried....even with a syringe - but it was futile to attempt it....so I gave up!
I tried to offer her some water with my finger tip ...and even a plate.....and then with a medicine bottle cap....but she turns away... She doesn't want anything. I guess that's nature...when an animals knows its dying. I think she knows...and her body is shutting down.
...T...O...M...O...R...R...O...W...
It will be a sad day!
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As much as that cat drove me crazy, and as mean and ornery as she was, this is so very very sad. She has been a part of our lives for so very long. I will miss her, too. :o(
Yes! She was a stinker at times! Especially when it came to terrorizing my grandchildren!!! Poor Bek...she hated that cat. But I miss her so much....still....
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