I have to go have my last pet euthanised. It hurts bad.
By oldschool 88 Comments
I just got a call from our vet. Our last cat, G'Kar has had kidney failure. It started the day before Christmas and she has been on a drip at the vet for most of that time. It really hurts so bad to see your pets given a lethal injection, and this is the second time in the last 6 months. This Christmas really sucked for us and it is about to get worse. Like any of us, we love our pets like family and after 11 years, she was. I will miss her badly as I still do our other cat Chakotay. I would give up any of the things we got for Christmas for this not to happen, but it has.
UPDATE:
I have just returned home and buried her, next to the clothes line where she would always sit and keep you company whilst you hung the clothe out. Thank you for the kind thoughts and I don't mean to be a downer. It is true that all of us will have to endure this at some point and at some level in our lives and this one isn't any different or special, just special to us. I am a deeply philosophical person. I believe that to experience life you must experience death as there is no life without death. Also, why deny yourself many good years of pleasure for the few days of pain. If you did you would just live in a cave and never do anything. I am not afraid to admit that I cried uncontrollably. My partner and I stayed as I really don't like the idea of my pets dying without us,its family by its side, talking to her. It is hard, but I don't myself not doing it.
We are getting 2 new cats in 3 weeks time. They were already planned as we wanted G'Kar to have some company. Sadly, she couldn't wait. This will take away some of the pain. However, you take time as it is part of your life. I will go to pat her where she sleeps every time I walk past. I will think she is in our bedroom every time the curtains move (as she sits behind them to watch the sunrise). Little things like that just take a while to be broken.
This will be our new family in mid-January, they are pure bred Ragdolls:
