You will know when it is "time" and do what you have to do because you
know when the time comes it will be the last loving gift you can give
her. If she does pass over in her sleep that will be a blessing but it
will not happen because you weren't brave enough to say enough is
enough it will happen because she chose to.

(I wonder sometimes if cats chose our Isis woke up, Dave found her
sitting in the hallway waiting for him and he said "Coming in?" and he
swears she looked back at the box in the kitchen where she'd been
spending a lot of time then looked at him, sighed, went for a drink,
licked the bowl clean, used her box, came into the living room,
demanded skritchies then curled up behind the sofa purring, after a
while the purring stopped and Dave had a look she was sound asleep. A
few minutes later he swears the room went cold and he had a sense of
something leaving and when he looked, she was curled up and gone. But
he says when she looked at that box and sighed, he always felt she had
made her decision) I said "she took her own time, she took her own
pace, she chose her own time and with her usual grace"

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs