Oh Tad, I'm so sorry it was Annie's time - she sounds
wonderful. It also sounds like she had an ideal
passage - at home surrounded by love, completely safe.
GLOW to light her journey and ease your heart...
Our thoughts and tears are with you...
<<<<<<<<HUGS>>>>>>>>>
--- Tad Burnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sadly I have to report another FeLV+ has passed on
> today...
> Annie was a beautiful calico with a white milk
> mustache...
> She came to live with me about a year and a half
> ago...
> She was a stray who was brought into a shelter in
> NJ...
> She had a huge gash in her side probably from a car
> but she was healing well from that but she tested
> pos
> and had to live in a cage with the dogs at the
> vets...
> The dogs didn't seem to bother her and she was
> friendly
> with people and she was friendly with me until I
> brought
> her in the room with my other FeLV+ cats...She
> established
> her own corner with a window of her own and kept
> everyone
> else out...I gave her her own food and box there and
> she
> would let me pat her if no one else was around....
>
> About a month ago she stopped eating and we found
> she
> had become anemic ...I put her in my isolation cage
> and
> put her on vitamins the vet gave us and got her
> eating AD..
> After a few days she seemed to be getting better and
> badly
> wanted out of the cage so I let her out...
> For a few days she was impossible to catch and
> didn't always
> get her vitamins but soon she started to slide again
> and she was
> easy to catch and medicate and we started seringe
> feeding...
> She took that easily and we had her gaining weight
> again...
>
> In the process she was spending more and more time
> on my
> bed where the rest of the cats all hang out and soon
> my feral
> cat who won't let me pat her but was very quick to
> make friends
> with the other cats was able to snuggle with
> Annie....
> The best thing of this is now the feral cat has
> suddenly decided
> it is OK to be touched by humans and she even let me
> pick her
> up for a minute without struggling....
>
> I have been following Wendy and Cricket as it has
> been so close
> to Annie...Yesterday she was too weak to make it to
> her litter box
> even though I had placed it up level with the bed
> for her...This was
> her first accident....I was struggling with the same
> thought of if I
> should PTS but she seemed to rest comfortably and
> took the
> seringe feedings fairly well...We had gone to
> smaller feedings more
> often....I was so happy when Wendy decided to try
> the feeding tube
> yesterday as I was looking to Wendy for guidance
> ....But then it
> was so very sad to here this morning that Cricket
> had passed during
> the night....Annie ate well for a bit but then
> stopped swallowing and
> then again the next feeding she didn't want to take
> anything....
> Shortly after that she was resting on my stomach as
> I patted her
> and she let out a cry and then I noticed that she
> had stopped breathing...
> It was over...I believe she was comfortable and new
> she was loved
> right up to the end...
>
> Some are very close all their life and others. like
> Anie its just at the end
> but it doesn't make it any easier to say good
> buy.....
> Michelle said it all.." But it does not get easier,
> as far as I can
> tell. Just less surprising."
>
> I will miss you sweet Annie and I hope we do get to
> meet again....
> Tad
>
>
>
>
Barb+Smoky the House Puma+El Bandito Malito
"My cat the clown: paying no mind to whom he should impress. Merely living
his life, doing what pleases him, and making me smile."
- Anonymous
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