Farewell my Sweet Herald

[Owlie]

I'm so sorry.

[Koronin]

I'm so sorry. (((HUGS)))

[Crankin]

Thinking of you.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Beth, I'm so sorry. Herald was a lucky kittie to have such a loving mother.
may you find comfort now in your happy memories of him. You did the right thing, of course.
I am actually going through the same thing with my kittie Pearl right now, who has been hanging on for dear life for the past two months, always faking us out each time and making 'one last stand' after another.
I am bringing her to the vet tomorrow, and depending on what the vet says about what awful new thing is going on in her poor little mouth now (on top of everything else she's struggling with), we may have to go home in an empty car, just like you had to do today today.
I would have brought her today, but we had a 22" snow blizzard and everything was simply closed and snowed in.

I feel for you- it's so very hard losing our 'babies', isn't it? But we just have to do the right thing for them if they are suffering.

[bmccasland]

Thank you everyone for your zen hugs and wishes. Bonnie cat is now sacked out on the woobie that our vet had ready for us - some final scent before he was eased out of this life.

BleekerSt - I was feeding Herald soft food mixed with warm water in his final weeks. He could lap it up. His soft food was a pate type, not shreds or flakes. Someone at the grocery store also suggested meat baby food as it's ground even finer. Herald liked it and ate a whole jar. Maybe Pearl would like baby food? Unfortunately it doesn't come in tuna flavor. Other option is to poach some meat, and then grind it in a food processor. Good luck, and you have my sympathies. It is hard.

[emily_in_nc]

Beth, so sorry to hear this news. It is always such a hard thing to have to say goodbye to a beloved pet. And at the holidays, maybe even harder. My sympathies - you were a good mom to Herald.

[NbyNW]

(((Beth))) So sorry for your loss. Reading your posts about Herald this last year or so, I got the impression that he was hanging on to make sure you were properly settled in your new life in the PNW.

It's funny, how our pets take care of us, when we think we're the ones taking care of them . . .

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

BleekerSt - I was feeding Herald soft food mixed with warm water in his final weeks. He could lap it up. His soft food was a pate type, not shreds or flakes. ...Good luck, and you have my sympathies. It is hard.

Thanks Beth. Pearl has been lapping up soft pate cat food mixed with water for weeks now- it's all she could handle. But I'm afraid she is too far gone now, and likely tonight we'll be helping her go to play with your sweet Herald.

I like what Selkie wrote here about the 'fragile circle' we choose when we take creatures into our lives and our hearts.

Hugs of comfort to everyone caring for and saying goodbye to their precious fur babies...

[GLC1968]

((((Beth)))), I'm so sorry for your loss.