Tad, I am very sorry about Sammy!
I don't know who wrote the Rainbow Bridge but it is so warm...and real!
Stan
>From: Tad Burnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: Tad's Sammy
>Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 14:21:40 -0400
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>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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