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Post by chantel on Nov 22, 2022 17:54:03 GMT
Oh lotsofcats I’m so sorry you had to go through that how heartbreaking 💔. You must be heartbroken 💔 I have got tears rolling down my cheeks just reading your post 🥲you definitely did the right thing we can’t leave them in pain -we have to think of them and deal with the heart break after 💔it’s the price we pay for love ❤️ Sending you lots of love xx
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Post by chantel on Nov 23, 2022 9:27:00 GMT
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Post by lotsofcats on Nov 23, 2022 9:52:30 GMT
I'm trying to get used to being without my gorgeous boy. It hit me again yesterday - it's hard to believe he seemed okay one minute and then really ill the next minute.
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Post by lotsofcats on Nov 23, 2022 9:55:32 GMT
lotsofcats, What a lovely idea those vets have with the candle which they must have subsequently lit for you & KK My vets gave me candle in a jar when I picked up Roman's ashes, apparently the head vet makes them himself That's lovely that the head vet makes candles and gives them out when someone has to have their pet pts.
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Post by chantel on Nov 23, 2022 15:50:48 GMT
I'm trying to get used to being without my gorgeous boy. It hit me again yesterday - it's hard to believe he seemed okay one minute and then really ill the next minute. It will be really hard and you will be in shock 🥲it happened so quickly but your beautiful boy did not suffer bless him - you will miss him terribly but he is now at peace - I know that won’t help how you are feeling but he will always be with you ❤️sending love ❤️ xxx
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Post by migsy on Nov 23, 2022 21:21:19 GMT
Found this forum again after so very long.So very sorry to see this first message.Rest in peace Kiba-Khan.
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Post by scallywag on Nov 23, 2022 21:43:11 GMT
Found this forum again after so very long.So very sorry to see this first message.Rest in peace Kiba-Khan. Welcome back , how could you lose us
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Post by scallywag on Nov 23, 2022 21:50:06 GMT
I'm trying to get used to being without my gorgeous boy. It hit me again yesterday - it's hard to believe he seemed okay one minute and then really ill the next minute. Sending you a massive big cyber hug. Its far too early , speaking from experience , and its a year next week for me , today l had to tell myself off as my mind tried to drag me back To the 30th a year ago , vision wise . Think happy thoughts you did him sooo proud xx
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Post by spider on Nov 23, 2022 23:18:57 GMT
When I got Kiba-Khan in from the pen Thursday evening he didn't eat much and was a bit quiet. He didn't eat on Friday morning, so I didn't put him out in the pen. when I came home from work at 3pm on Friday I offered him food, but he wouldn't eat anything. I got a Lick-e-lix and he ate all of that and then another one. He got down off the armchair and had a drink of water and then back on it and to sleep. When my daughter came home from work after 5 she smoothed him and asked when did he get a bit of a lump on his head, which I hadn't noticed earlier. Later on, I noticed his eyes were weepy and he was drooling. I tried to wipe his eyes but he cried out. Hubby had gone out to pick my daughter up from her friends, so I was waiting to ask him to take KK to the emergency vet. He said he'd be okay until the next day!!. I was then on the phone crying to my son and asked him to take KK. In the meantime, the lump on his head had got much bigger and was above his eyes and right across from side to side. I phoned the vets and we had to go 12 miles away. I knew then that KK would be put to sleep. I was ages in the vets, they were busy. When the vet spoke to me, she said she first saw him she hoped it was an abscess, but when I said he hasn't any back teeth at all she ruled that out. She said he'd cried when she tried to look in his mouth and his eyes. She believes it was a cancerous growth and something had made it flare up and cause the swelling across his head and there was nothing that could be done for him at all. She said he would have had developing for a while. The vet was lovely and let me hold KK while she administered the injection. I put him back in his carrier and she tucked the towel all around him, talking to him all the time. All the nurses had been admiring him and the vet said he was avery good age for a Maine Coon and she'd never one get to that age. I think hubby must have felt guilty because he paid for the weekly shopping on Saturday! When I got back from the vets he was surprised that KK had been pts. I couldn't have left KK in pain until the next day - he may have died in the night, but I still couldn't leave him like that. My daughter said hubby gets upset and can't cope with it - he buries his head in the sand. KK is buried in the flower bed in front of the greenhouse, where he can see the other cats in the pen. He was buried with his long-legged rabbit toy, which looked like a giant flea, which he'd had since he was a kitten, although he hadn't bothered with it for a while. When we went to bed we used to hide it from him and every morning he would have found it and he would be cuddled up to it. Until we buy a plant and a stone ornament hubby put a square stone block on top of the soil. Toffee was sat on it for ages Saturday and yesterday. I miss KK so much. It was just so sudden. He'd been so happy since he had most of his teeth out in September. He's free from pain now and despite his many ailments, lived a long life and I he knows he had a good life. Hopefully he's met his forum friends, Beau and Roman in Rainbow Bridge. That's so sad I'm in tears reading but there was nothing more u could have done
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Post by lotsofcats on Nov 24, 2022 9:59:18 GMT
Found this forum again after so very long.So very sorry to see this first message.Rest in peace Kiba-Khan. Thank you migsy. Lovely to see you back on the forum. Update us with how you are etc.
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Post by migsy on Nov 24, 2022 21:15:04 GMT
Thank you lotsofcats.Im still struggling with the forums workings.Dont want to lose it again. Your very sad message about your loss of beautiful Kiba-Khan was the first message I saw,he was so gorgeous,what an awful shock for you.Their loss certainly knocks us off our feet,it's devastating.Its 3.5 years since we had to say goodbye to Skip, and I still occasionally get the odd moments when I get the tear in my eye and empty feeing in my chest.They keep a place in our heart.I love to look at pics and videos, and remember what a great life he had and so much fun.
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Post by lotsofcats on Nov 25, 2022 10:51:57 GMT
Our pets certainly have a place in our hearts migsy. I've got great memories of Kiba-Khan and will treasure them. I know what you mean regarding Skip - they never let us forget them.
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Post by spider on Nov 25, 2022 15:39:49 GMT
None of them ever go without leaving a footprint and yes every now and again they pop back to visit for some reason they never really go to far away
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Post by chantel on Nov 25, 2022 22:59:58 GMT
It’s always the happiest hello but the saddest goodbye but they will always leave paw 🐾 prints on our hearts ❤️ for always ❤️
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Post by lotsofcats on Nov 26, 2022 0:13:20 GMT
It’s always the happiest hello but the saddest goodbye but they will always leave paw 🐾 prints on our hearts ❤️ for always ❤️ That's lovely. I can't get to sleep tonight because it was this time last week and I'm going over it in my mind.
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