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Tad,
What a story about your Sammy and his
history. The cancer was awful, isn't amazing and scary how aggressively
fast it can grow. You are wonderful to have cared for him and your other
kitties. My sympathies to you for your loss.
Del
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Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 1:21
PM
Subject: Re: Tad's Sammy
Thank you all for the kind words about Sammy...
Sammy did
have a full life and an interesting story...
He originally came to me as SD
named after the
Suffuc Downs horse race track near Boston MA.
where he
came from...When feeding the ferals there
there was one cat that came up to
be patted and
picked up...They decided to rescue him and when
they
brought a carrier for him he walked in himself...
They brought
him to the vet for a check up..FeLV+...
But he was such a good boy they
decided to try
one time on the internet...I had spent some time
in that
area years ago so I wrote back and said I
would take
him...
His teeth were all rotten and he had to be
neutered
before I could bring him home but from the very
1st moment that
I saw him he was my cat..He joined
the others in my FeLV room with no
problem at all
and he always slept by my head at night...
He
liked to sit in the window and watch outside...
He would have liked to go
outside again....But
one day soon after I got him it was
snowing
and he jumped in the window and took one look
and jumped back
down...He knew what snow was
and didn't want to be outside that
day....
A while later I got a call from the rescue person
that
I had gotten him from and they found a worker at the
track that had
asked about him...It seems there was
an old woman that had lived in one of
the horse barns
and his name was Sammy and he had lived with the
old
woman but she had cancer and had passed away...
The man was happy
that Sammy had a good home
because he knew him from
before.....
Sammy was old and I feed him special food which
he
ate well but never put on much weight and he had
arthritis but he
never showed any sign of anything
unusual until Saturday night when he
didn't finish his food
the way he usually did and was shacking his
head...
I thought it might be one of his remaining teeth...
Then on
Sunday he just looked at his food but wouldn't
eat...An hour later I found
him with blood coming out
of his mouth....The vet said to watch him and put
me on
for early appointment for Monday morning.....Monday
morning he
couldn't close his mouth with a huge swelling
under his
tongue...
The vet said it was most likely a cancer tumor with
a
burst blood vessel and the whole lower jaw was involved...
He would
have had to remove the lower jaw to get rid
of it and because of his age he
probably wouldn't have
made it....He was in pain and the only humain thing
to
do was to help him on to the Rainbow Bridge....
It all
happened so quickly that I was just studded by it all
and I miss my old
friend but perhaps I will get to see him
again....
If you
would add his name to the CLS list that would be
nice..
Tad
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