You are all wonderful to your animals! It's hard on the heart to lose them but such a beautiful thing to show them love while we can.
On Fri, May 26, 2017, 8:18 PM kat <merrykatme...@email.com> wrote: > Bob, > > You are an angel to the kitties you have cared for!! This new one will > know a true home with such great love, even if it is only for a short > time. Thank you for all that you do. > > Kat (Mew Jersey) > > *Sent:* Friday, May 26, 2017 at 3:01 PM > *From:* "ROBERT CHAPEL" <bcha...@optonline.net> > *To:* felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > *Subject:* Re: [Felvtalk] Checking In... > So Glad to hear that no new " tragedies" have emerged of late and that > Violet loves her catnip!.. I love the image I conjur of her eating a > leaf or two and rolling in the Grass looking at you with her little head > upside down.... It's been only a few weeks since I lost my buddy > Magellin and though it's not with me on a daily basis I only have to > encounter a surprise reminder to bring tears to my eyes ( eg... needing > to put some meds for myself into a container and grabbing the nearest > empty one which turned out to be Jelly's Mirtazapine container... > virtually in a second the whole experience came rushing back... > attempting to get him to eat..watching him lose weight... syringe > feeding him... Friends ask me " why are you considering doing it > again" and all I can say is.... " It feels worse to NOT help than the > pain of helping"... Amani expressed a nice sentiment a few times when > explaining to folks why she continues to do what she does... > " If the people who care about cats don't help them it's certainly not > going to be the people who _ don't_ care about them" ( yes Amani I took > a measure of literary license in quoting you... Hope it's close : ) > On Sunday I expect to take home my new Foster... and older " Miracle" > survivor of some kind of traumatic encounter( we don't know what)... He > was traumatically brain injured and could barely walk when he first came > to us..when I drove him to the vet I was positive they would just put > him down... but he made a miraculous recovery and is now just the > sweetest lap cat you could know... but still not entirely steady on his > feet.. In the last few weeks he developed a tumor behind one of his > eyes and it is the consensus of two vets that it is a cancer that will > kill him in a few months.... ( one of the vets had a cat with the exact > same situation and used a combination of Sub Cu injectable alternative > meds to keep the boy alive for an extra nine months... I can't stand > the idea of this sweet guy living out his remaining days on the bottom > level of cages just sleeping there with little attention until he > dies... He deserves to see the sun and to have someone to pet him and > know a home for at least a few months.... I'm hoping that knowing in > advance of taking him home that the only real surprise would be his > actually surviving that I won't have the same level of sadness that my > others guys engendered... Be that as it may... I'm doing it. > > > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org >
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