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[BleeckerSt_Girl]

As I posted on Nov 8th, my 10 yr old Maine coon kitty Pearl has been failing from her longtime bout with kidney disease (thanks to that poison Chinese pet food gluten a few years back).
Through all her last 5 yrs of ups and downs in terms of kidney issues, she's mostly been pretty happy and strong and able to bounce back from each little crisis with our renewed water treatments and special care, but this time it seems a losing battle.

I'm afraid this time she just keeps losing weight and not being able to eat more than a couple licks of food anymore. We've been giving her daily water injections for almost a month now, and various natural supplements and medications, but her kidneys are just not bouncing back this time. We've tried everything. She's slowly getting weaker each day, and I'm afraid it's just a matter of time before she gives out.

She doesn't seem in much pain, and when I hold her and brush her she purrs like mad, she loves to just lie purring in her big cushy box of blankets. She still is able to move about and she pees when I carry her to her box, and she still laps up the diluted water from cans of tuna, which she loves. But she's getting thinner and weaker every day.
If she was in lots of pain I would take her to the vet to end it quickly. But she seems pretty peaceful and happy here at home, and perhaps, like our last two kitties Ellie and Lydia, she will be able to fade out peacefully at home here with us. I don't know yet. As long as she's relatively peaceful and purring, I'll just keep making her as comfortable as I can. It's hard for me right now.

Our Pearl, the 'Gossamer Kitty', the little shining light, two years ago:





Pearl asleep on the scratching post last year: