02-17-14 – Farewell Alley
Rest in peace my sweet little darling Alley. I will miss you so much.
I got her an antibiotic pill instead of the liquid, it worked. Â I gave her as much Nutrical as I could, and bought all kinds of cat food for her to eat, she seemed to like Newman’s Own liver the best – maybe because of her anemia. She sweetly licked about a total of a can a day off the fork or spoon I would hold for her while she sat curled in her little closet bed. Â She came out to use the litterbox but the rest of her time she spent in the closet. Her test came back – she didn’t have FIP. Â They said that they could do more tests to try and find out whether it might be cancer or heart disease – and then we would know how long she might live. Â Not how to save her… simply information on how long before she will die. Â Since she was barely eating and never coming out of the closet I wasn’t sure it would be a good idea to drag her out to the vet and put her through being shaved and poked and prodded – possibly forced to go under anesthesia – would she even live through something like that? I told them I thought I would hold off and we will see if the Lasix and Nutrical could get her back to some stronger place then we would think about more tests. Â However she didn’t even make it another few days after that phone call. Â On Saturday she stopped eating, and on Sunday she wouldn’t drink either. Â I brought her in on Monday morning after we sat outside in the sunshine and I told her all the things I loved about her and petted her and cried. I already miss her so much. My mom came with me to bring her to the vet. Â She waited outside while I took Alley into the examining room. Â I petted and hugged her and told her all my favorite memories while she fell asleep and then they came in and gave her the injection. Â I will get her ashes back in a few days.