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Originally Posted by Mal2869
It did feel rushed and i guess in my own head i thought things would be great and the cat would be coming home all better or at least on the road to recovery. I know from reading up on the matter kidney failure happens a lot in older cats but it's still such a shock because it's like you just don't get to spend any more time with him and you have to make a decision and then he is gone.
I know as a human if i was terminal and suffering i would also want to end my life but he had the absolute cutest face and was very intelligent.
Here is a pic of him sprawled out on the bed very happy and sleeping from just a few months back.
Imageshack - ourcat
I also wonder if i made the right decision to have him cremated. My gut wonders if i will really get him back or someone else's pet. I wonder if i should have brought him home and buried him in the garden but at the time i was just so down about the whole thing and cremation seemed a good way to honour the memory of a loved pet as i can sprinkle his ashes high on some hills. |
The picture's lovely. He was an adorable looking ginger and obviously well loved, lounging on the bed like that!. If you had taken him home you would have had an agonising few days dreading the time you had to return to the vets and that would have been hard on you too. What you do with your pet's remains is such a personal thing. I buried my first cat in the garden and planted a flower, but it made me terribly sad and then when we moved I felt so guilty about leaving him there. I also had this bizarre, wild urge to dig him up in the first couple of weeks, which made me think I was going off my head. Other cats have been left at the vets for standard mass cremation, in the belief that once my cat has passed away I can do nothing more and have discharged my duty to them. Perhaps what you have done is the sensible middle course.