We just had to put our cat Lacy to sleep tonight.
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She had lymphoma and we didnt know it. We knew she had a thyroid problem but it tuned out to be alot more than that..It was pretty invasive so if there is a good thing out of this is that I am glad she is out of pain. The last month of her life she had a hard time breathing. I just couldnt stand to see her labor like that, so we got her in today and had her checked out. When he called us back with the test results he was willing to do alot of things but we just felt it was just prolonging the ineveitable.It was hard to tell the Dr. to not try to prolong her life.We had her for 14 years. But we just couldnt see putting her though all the treatments with no promises that it would actually help her at all.
Some of you might remember we recently had to put down our other cat Betty. That was hard too. She was a sweet girl. I dont think I will be looking to get any more cats. We have our 2 dogs Sydney and Josie and I am NOT looking forward to the day we say goodbye to them! This is the sad part of being a pet owner.
It has been a hard summer. Its a long time to have a friend. This is going to be the first time I havent had a cat in the house since I was a very young girl. So I guess I should be used to loss.I dont think it will really hit me until get up tomorrow and she wont be sitting in her chair on the deck waiting for someone to get up and feed her and give her her thryroid pill. She was a beautiful, smart, independant little friend. I will miss her…
Sorry for the sad post but I wanted to give Lacy and Betty a bit of a tribute of always giving us unconditional love all the days of their lives….
I was just putting up a post and saw that Kerri beat me to the punch so rather than delete mine I copied it here:
Today was a tough day…we had to say goodbye to Lacy, our cat for the last 14 years.
We
got Lacy 14 years ago when she was a new kitten.She used to ride with
me every morning in my car on the way to my law office. In fact she
would sit on my shoulders for most of the ride. When I got to work, she
would come hang at the office, mostly sleeping in my briefcase.
That
started her habit of always finding unique places to sleep. We were
always finding her sleeping in a box, corner or someplace interesting.
lately she took up in one of our chairs out on the back deck – prob
because it was sunny and it felt good.
I wish I had more pictures of her during the early years. What we
have was shot with film and are in boxes somewhere. (You know how
plumbers have leaky pipes? Well, all our film pics are so
unorganized…) Since we started shooting digital I know we have a ton
of pet pics somewhere – Kerri prob has more of them on her computer but
here are a couple I found from earlier this year.
Lacy
started looking ill earlier this year. We’ve had several visits to the
vet – at first they thought is was a thyroid problem but today he felt
the growth and wanted to take an x-ray to see what it was. He called
this afternoon to let us know she had a growth inside her taking up her
entire right lung and pushing her other organs out of place which
explains why she had such a hard time breathing. The prognosis for her
was not good at all, so the decision was made to put her down before
she started REALLY hurting. at 14 years of age it’s the equivalent of
80 human years.
Earlier this year we lost our other cat, Betty
so this is the first time in our marriage and the first time in Kerri’s
life that she has not had a cat in her house.
Every night i
could count on her jumping up into my chair to nuzzle against me – her
way of saying “hey” for the day and checking in.
This is the
part of owning a pet that people never talk about but it is the reality
that most of us will outlive our pets. She certainly gave a lot to us
over the last 14 years.
We’ll miss her a lot.
Thank you Lacy for being a part of our life.
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