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Originally Posted by 74-911
A tough loss Charles, our sympathy...
Those who have never become really owned by a cat don't really understand but own you they do...
Sounds exactly like our 20+ year old Calico. When we first took her to the vet to be spayed (she was a stray that had apparently been let loose in the neighborhood) the vet warned us she had a heart murmur (and still has it 20 years later). She survived a major stroke a couple of years ago but she is like the energizer bunny... she now weighs maybe 5 pounds soaking wet but still goes up and down the stairs and snarks at everyone when she is displeased.
The secret to her long life perhaps is the big spoonful of melted Blue Bell homemade vanilla ice cream she has had every night for many years... and she absolutely demands it. Wife and I just hope to wake up some morning and find her dead in her little cubby hole in the laundry room and we never have to have her put down....
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My wife had a Calico that's still her gold standard. Wow, what a grump...towards everyone except my wife. To her she was a creampuff. I met her once; she hissed at me as she walked away...Absolute beauty.
Hannah either had acute pancreatitis or cancer - we don't know which - but it came on very suddenly, or she didn't show it until the very end. She'd been losing weight then about a week ago stopped eating. By then it was too far gone to stop. Cancer is a death sentence no matter what. We decided to not put her through a protracted treatment with questionable outcome.
Yep, we all hope to go quietly in our sleep- both us and our pets. Sometimes it just doesn't work out that way...