Rest In Peace Princess

Yesterday, after much consideration and consultation with the vet we put Princess down. The last option was a feeding tube surgically implanted into her neck. She was three and a half pounds, very weak and frail. It was unlikely she would have survived the surgery to start and second her quality of life after would have been roughly the same.

It would have just put off the inevitable from feline CRF for a little while. It would have been purely selfish at that point and not in her own best interest.

As I explained in an earlier blog she had it rough. She had her entire kittenhood in the SPCA with no family to love her. She was adopted once only to be brought back because they said she smelled. We adopted her and she didn't smell at all, she did have an intestinal parasite but a quick treatment by the vet cleared that all up. We didn't know that she had CRF and it was fatal.

She was two, far too young for such a disease that mostly effects older cats.

She loved stickers and pieces of paper. She would put them into her water bowl, fish them out and carry them to another water bowl only to repeat the process. We were lucky to have her as long as we did, she was sweet, gentle, and was a wonderful family member.

We miss her greatly. So if you are able, adopt an older pet from the SPCA. It's likely that they'll never have a family of their own after a certain age. It's worth the heartache as they will completely enhance the quality of your life as you enhance theirs.