Sad cat news

[rhialto]

On sunday evening we were ready to have our Lotta put to sleep, but then during the monday she seemed to show some signs of improvement. But it got a lot worse during the night to today, and it was clear that we had to do the brutal thing and take her to the vet, no matter how scary that would be for her. That she didn't even hardly struggle against being put in the carrier was one of the bad signs.

We are just back from the vet. He diagnosed Lotta as likely having both kindney and pancreas trouble. Apparently kidney-food (which she loved! but it made her vomit) is bad for the pancreas...
She was clearly suffering, and hardly responsive (normally she would have run away from the doctor's table), and we made the hard (for us) decision to have her put to sleep.

She's resting softly now...

Comments

[sparrowsion]

Oh no, I'm so sorry for you! It's such a difficult decision to make, especially when you know you're going to have to, and the question becomes when.

[rhialto]

At least she got about 6 good years with us. We got her, with her supposed pal Niko, from the animal shelter here in Berlin. Their human had died and they ended up in the shelter. Since they were very shy, they weren't amongst the popular cats to adopt. Also their age could only be estimated, for Lotta some 6-8 years old. So she had almost half of her life to become settled with us. She must have had a strange past, because she was quite unlike other cats. She didn't like to sit in boxes, she didn't jump on things, she didn't try to eat human food... but she always went on the litter box.
Niko was even less used to strangers than Lotta was. He never got to the stage where he let himself be petted. That was so sad too, the first time we could pet him was when he was on his death bed (because he already had kidney problems before we came to us) and we tried to comfort him.

[cellio]

I am so sorry. It's a hard decision to make.