Yeah, I don't know what else we could have done really.
I guess it's better to put her out of her misery than to take her home and let her die in pain. But it still hurts.
Hey, eight years is the longest I think we've ever had an animal.
If she did get hit by a car though, what I can't...
-sigh-
Bad news...
She didn't make it.
I personally don't know what happened, but she went to the vet this morning.
Rest in peace Missie.
She's the gray one.
Oh I know she'll probably make it if she doesn't have any internal problems, but I'm still worried...
Other family members have had cats they took in as a young cat and had two broken back legs/pelvis/back area and he lived to somewhere over 18 years of age before needing to be put down. That...
I'm thinking probably tonight. Yay emergency vet visits...
The vet'll say that it costs $800 for a surgery to repair her leg, so I'm scared to know how much euthanasia costs... I don't want to know. I don't want to put her down unless she would have NO quality of life; like if her spine was...
I think it's her rear left leg! Any time she tries to take a step she yowls.
I have her on a heating pad (moist heat; turns off in about two hours) on the couch. I've been spoon feeding her water now, since I don't want to move her more than absolutely possible.
Should I try to give her...
I think the bad breath is from being without water for so long...
Her back legs just seem... Weak. Like she's lost a lot of muscle mass it seems.
She usually fattens up for winter, but this year she got fat for summer and skinny for fall. Dorky cat.
I place her in the bathtub every couple of...
Blech! Ew her breath is bad too. It normally isn't stinky or anything, it would maybe smell like cat food because she doesn't have bad teeth.
Pretty good for an eight or so year old cat!
But now it kind of smells like urine/really strong.
She's probably REALLY dehydrated, like I had thought...
She's very lethargic and I'm assuming hungry and dehydrated. We'll probably end up taking her to the vet tonight, because she is breathing through her mouth and yowling if we hold her or she moves. I can't believe she's back though! We once had a cat stuck in a garage for about 5 days, and he...