Ken Garlock
02-18-2004, 7:05 PM
And that friend was Ivan, our little Russian-Blue kitty. We had gotten him when he was just a young kitten, and he immediately became part of the family. In the past year, Ivan had his kidneys start to fail. Over the past 6 months we had been giving him sub-cutaneous injections to Ringers I.V. fluids to help wash the poisons out of his system. We first started with twice a week, and more recently every other day.
In the past week, he started to just set around the house, or crawl under a quilt to sleep. He would just set on your lap and could not seem to get comfortable. Then, we found him wetting on the carpet, something we had not seem in the past. So, this afternoon we took him for his last trip to the Vet. The doctor gave him a sedative to make him dopey, and then gave him an overdose of anesthesia. It was all done in less that 10 minutes, and I don't think he suffered at all.
We brought him home, and placed him a an oak box I had made. We put a couple of toys in the box, and the ashes from our Siamese who had passed a couple years ago. The two of them were just like litter mates since we got both of them when they were about 6 weeks old. They now rest in our own private kitty cemetery along with my daughter's kitty.
You really don't know how much you are attached to these little critters until it is time for them to cross over the rainbow bridge. It surely does make a person sad to loose a a friend that never asked for anything other that food, a warm place to sleep, and affection. But, I guess those of you that have lost a pet already know what I mean.
My Dad tells us to get another kitten to replace the loss, but I think we will wait a while. We still have our Abyssinian kitty who is now 15 years old. He is diabetic and requires insulin twice a day. When it is time for him to cross the rainbow bridge, then we will consider what to do. We have always had at least one kitty with us in the nearly 32 years of marriage. It would be a lonely place without a furry purr-box around.
Thanks for listening, friends.
In the past week, he started to just set around the house, or crawl under a quilt to sleep. He would just set on your lap and could not seem to get comfortable. Then, we found him wetting on the carpet, something we had not seem in the past. So, this afternoon we took him for his last trip to the Vet. The doctor gave him a sedative to make him dopey, and then gave him an overdose of anesthesia. It was all done in less that 10 minutes, and I don't think he suffered at all.
We brought him home, and placed him a an oak box I had made. We put a couple of toys in the box, and the ashes from our Siamese who had passed a couple years ago. The two of them were just like litter mates since we got both of them when they were about 6 weeks old. They now rest in our own private kitty cemetery along with my daughter's kitty.
You really don't know how much you are attached to these little critters until it is time for them to cross over the rainbow bridge. It surely does make a person sad to loose a a friend that never asked for anything other that food, a warm place to sleep, and affection. But, I guess those of you that have lost a pet already know what I mean.
My Dad tells us to get another kitten to replace the loss, but I think we will wait a while. We still have our Abyssinian kitty who is now 15 years old. He is diabetic and requires insulin twice a day. When it is time for him to cross the rainbow bridge, then we will consider what to do. We have always had at least one kitty with us in the nearly 32 years of marriage. It would be a lonely place without a furry purr-box around.
Thanks for listening, friends.