Bed Heads
Sometimes, I think these cats take the piss.
Meanwhile, the committee plans its next campaign:
On a sadder note, Isis has been diagnosed with cancer in her lower jaw. The vet has given her six months at the outside. We feel that this is probably optimistic. In the meantime, we are monitoring her day by day. While she is getting some quality of life, she will carry on. Indeed, the other day she took a mouse from Louis. Once she had it in her basket she let it go and watched it. So, for the second time in a week, I had to go down the garden in my dressing gown to release a mouse, having been woken by the commotion. It’s all very well this low level pest control, but I sometimes think they don’t really get how it is supposed to work.
So, at some point in the next few weeks, we will have to take Isis for a final trip. I know it is the best thing for her, but it will still feel like an execution. And it seems but a blink of an eye since that midsummer’s night in 1998 when she was born. How time flies.
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I’m really sorry to hear that.
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She’s had a good innings. We lost her brother at 11 eighteen months ago and her mother and uncle a little over a year ago. Both were the age she is now. Nearly fourteen doesn’t seem like much because Nefertiti (seen with the two young Toms in the second picture) is seventeen next month and shows little sign of slowing down. Seeing her behaving as badly now as she did as a kitten, I tend to forget that Isis, Hat and Cleo are also old ladies…
All cats take the piss, it’s in the contract.
Very sad about Isis, as you say it feels like an execution when you have to take them for the final trip to the vet, I may not have to do that with my present two as it’s possible they could outlive me, which is a rather sobering thought.
Great pics, our cats get in the bed too.
Sorry to hear about Isis. It’s never easy.
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They’re really a law unto themselves – pics are great.
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Sad to hear of your sad news. We lost a cat last year to cancer of the tongue. The only good thing was that it progressed very quickly. It was only a matter of weeks from noticing that he had problems eating to having to take him on his last trip to the vet.
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It looks as if this is going to be the same. That said, she has had poor teeth for a while now, so it’s probably in the latter stages now having been around for a while.
It’s always HORRIBLE
Meanwhile, Ratatosk, our Birman tom DEMANDS “in” to the bed, once the humans have warmed it up nicely ….
So sorry to read this, it isn’t much help but we are thinking of you.
I took my dog for a final trip last year after 10 years, but its better for them than to life in pain.
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Sorry too hear about Isis, its hard when a pet is going through something like that. I just recently lost a dog that I had when I was about 7 or 8 years old. Now I’m 25 and that dog was a real memory to me because I had her all growing up. But I know she is not suffering anymore. Great pics tho!
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Had my cat diagnosed with ‘breast’ cancer, and was one of my saddest days of my life. Poor thing lived for more over a year after the diagnose but in the end I took her on a final trip to the vet. They should not suffer, and I think this is the best way to do it.
Comment by DanT. — March 1, 2012 @ 22:59