Tomorrow afternoon I have an appointment at the vet to euthanize my senior cat. She's been suffering from diabetes for about six months, and is really beginning to fade. I did the twice-a-day insulin shots for some weeks, but it didn't do any good. She has developed cataracts and is slowly going blind. Eleven years old, not that geriatric for a cat, but it's time.
She's a bit special to me, in that I literally rescued her as a stray kitten, up a tree in the woods, abandoned, apparently. And gave her a comfy house cat life. She was never even tempted to go outside. She's a tortoise-shell cat, and until the cataracts began to cloud her eyes, had these big yellow eyes that made her look like a great horned owl.
She'll join a couple of earlier cats, in little jars of ashes on my mantel. But right now I feel totally like crap.
Thanks for reading this.
She's a bit special to me, in that I literally rescued her as a stray kitten, up a tree in the woods, abandoned, apparently. And gave her a comfy house cat life. She was never even tempted to go outside. She's a tortoise-shell cat, and until the cataracts began to cloud her eyes, had these big yellow eyes that made her look like a great horned owl.
She'll join a couple of earlier cats, in little jars of ashes on my mantel. But right now I feel totally like crap.
Thanks for reading this.
