Pets Rest in Peace 2019
I have never started an off-topic thread and I hope this is okay, but I noticed there's an ongoing thread for (famous) people, and since there are so many pet lovers here, I thought it might be comforting to have a pet RIP thread.
We just lost our almost-13-year-old cat Noah last week, and it has been tough. He's our ninth family cat, so of course, the whole process has become familiar but it's still difficult to process and I miss him a lot, especially when my photo display randomly shows pictures of him.
He developed jaundice in the beginning of March and the vet said his liver had shut down. He inserted a feeding tube and my husband and I were feeding him liquefied cat food every 2 to 3 hours. This went on for weeks ... initially I was very hopeful he'd get better (the vet told us it was 50/50) but his condition started to deteriorate. He was on a lot of meds which we also had to grind up and put down the tube. Long story short, his condition suddenly went downhill fast one afternoon/evening and he died while we were holding him about 6:30 in the morning, before we could take him to the vet to euthanize him. We have never had a pet that died at home. The vet did an autopsy and found he had liver cancer; the tumor had started to bleed and he was hemorrhaging internally ... that's what caused the sudden decline.
If you have a sick pet, or a recent loss, I hope you'll feel encouraged to post it here if it helps to bring closure. Losing a pet is really like losing a member of the family ... the grief is real, and many people don't understand.
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