Tiggy is gone.

[Tiggy]

Not me, the real Tiggy. I took my user name from our pet cat Tiggy.

I just got back from the vet after having her euthanized. Mrs. T couldn't bear to watch so I held her as the doctor injected the drug. She was 14 and had advanced feline renal disease - acute kidney failure. I found out that's the no. 1 cause of death in older cats.

Tiggy had a good life - she was a rescue kitten, literally found abandoned in a junkyard. Had a damn good life, pampered and spoiled rotten. Achingly sad to see her go but glad she's no longer in pain.

Sorry for unloading on you guys. Just wanted to say always take the time to say I love you, and always appreciate the ones around you who make your life better.

- T

[Raphael]

Sorry to hear that Tiggy.

Pets do touch our lives in profound and special ways. We often seriously underestimate exactly how much they mean to us.

[rogero]

I love you and your posts, Tiggs.

Roger

[mossrose]

:hug:

So many of us have lost beloved pets. I am sorry for your loss, Tiggy.

[phank]

I can definitely sympathize. I recently lost my cat Bluto, best cat I've ever had. His cremains sit next to my keyboard where he always sat. Hopefully, the kitten I just got will outlive me.

[NeilUnreal]

:sad: I'm old enough to have lost pets of a number of species, including two cats. It's tough.

-Neil

[Catholicity]

Aww Tiggy :hug: I am so truly sorry to here. I understand how difficult it is for you.

[Rational Gaze]

Requiescat in pace. :sad:

[shunyadragon]

Not me, the real Tiggy. I took my user name from our pet cat Tiggy.

I just got back from the vet after having her euthanized. Mrs. T couldn't bear to watch so I held her as the doctor injected the drug. She was 14 and had advanced feline renal disease - acute kidney failure. I found out that's the no. 1 cause of death in older cats.

Tiggy had a good life - she was a rescue kitten, literally found abandoned in a junkyard. Had a damn good life, pampered and spoiled rotten. Achingly sad to see her go but glad she's no longer in pain.

Sorry for unloading on you guys. Just wanted to say always take the time to say I love you, and always appreciate the ones around you who make your life better.

- T

No problem, love all pets, cats, dogs and whatever.

Sorry for your loss.

[Xru]

Sorry for your loss. I love animals and I've lost a lot and now won't have any 'cause its to troubling when they are gone.

[Tiggy]

Mrs.T and I would like to thank everyone for the kind sentiments. Next time I promise to bring some cheese with my whine. :smile:

Mods, please feel free to move this thread to a more appropriate forum.

- T

[USIncognito]

69445We had a lot of cats come and go while I was growing up including two kittens that were supposed to be "mine" before they were a year old. Once I was on my own, two came to live with me. Scarlett lived with my neighbor, and she let her out. In late '94 I'd see her around and feed, scratch and let her in to visit me. She seemed to like me better to my neighbor said I could "keep" her. That was in early '95 when she was over a year old. Hatshepsut was a stray my upstairs neighbors thought I should take in. She was highly agressive and gave Scarlett hell from Oct. '95 until she passed away in '05 at what I guess was 11, and from what likely was accute renal failure. Scarlett and I enjoyed our time alone for years until March '10. She started vomiting, exhibiting an almost catatonic lethargy and randomly evacuating her bowels. That behavior stopped after a week or two and I proceeded to move apartments after 17 years. In Aug. '10 the same symptoms happened and she recovered yet again, but I knew we had to take her in to see the vet - neither her nor Hattie had been since '99. I just kept them inside and hoped for the best.

I finally took her in and the vet diagnosed her with chronic renal failure. Since she was at the very least 17 (never clarified her birth date with my neighbor all those years ago), such a diagnosis wasn't surprising after I'd learned what the heck it was. Our family cats had all died of accidents, likely predation (my parents let all of them out over the years) and one at 11 or 12 due to FIV. Mom had lost a subsequent cat to CRF/ARF a few years earlier, but we really never discussed the symptoms. We started a treatment of subcutaneous fluid treatments - the canid/felid version of dialysis - in late Aug '11 and she's doing great thanks to a friend of a friend who is a vet tech and basically does the SubQ's for me. There's no way I could do them myself.

We're just postponing the inevitable, and the treatment is expensive, but every day I can postpone that final visit to the vet with her is worth it. She's been in my life longer than most of the humans I associate with, and she's stuck with me through the good, bad and the ugly over the last 17 years.

Attached is a photo of her getting the SubQ.

Hope you don't mind me telling my story an dreading that final shot she'll receive.

[Jedidiah]

We lost a three year old dog to kidney failure. Pets become a real part of the family. Losing them hurts.

[Steviepinhead]

Sorry to hear about this, Tiggy!