Get on the phone and find a vet clinic open during the weekend.  They'll
give her one shot to put her to sleep and anothe to stop her heart.  It is a
painful ordeal ahead of her but you owe it to her to stop her suffering.  My
condolences at your loss.

Hi Kitty,

I am so sorry your kitty and you are going through this.  I have to tell you,
as having been a vet tech in the past, that knowing your vet is a part of
being comfortable with trusting they will do the best they can to make your
cat's passing as painless as possible.  In abscence of having time to form a
working relationship with the vet, please understand that cats in distress
are particularly difficult to aid as they most want to be left alone and not
handled at all.  I can tell you from experience that cat veins are very, very
tiny and a cat that is dehydrated and debilitated sometimes has no vein to
access in their front limbs.  So an alternate method is to use the hind leg
inside vein, but the cat must be lying on its side.  They alternatively
sometimes have to access a jugular vein in the neck.  There is no perfectly
comfortable way to euthanize a pet, (and it is not a happy day for the techs
and vets either as what they would want most in the world is to be able to
send you home with a perfectly well, happy pet) but most vets I have worked
with do their best in a sad, painful situation to make it easy as possible
for the pet and the grieving owner.

I know you are having difficulties with the idea of letting your cat go, but
comfort yourself with the knowledge that it is our duty and our priviledge to
be able to spare our pets' suffering.  They give us such comfort and love
that it is the least we can do in return, especially in the case of a long-
tem illness.

My good thoughts and wishes are with you and your cat.

I had to put my sweet 6 month old Kodi to sleep due to FIP.

I brought him in, they took him out back and put a catheter in his leg.
They brought him back out to me so I could hold him and be with him, and
when I was ready they came in, injected the solution into the catheter.  He
put his head down, he breathed out his last breath.  There was a very faint
shudder through his body afterwards and he was gone.

I would very much like to find a vet who can do this at home for me, and I
think I have found one, I just have yet to ask him, as I am hopefully years
away from needing it.  It would take out the trauma of having to bring the
kitty to the vet, which most cats hate.  But being able to be there with the
pet gives them comfort and they leave the world knowing they are loved.

If you can't stand to be there, then (at least at the vet I worked at) they
bring the pet out back, put the catheter in, they coo over the pet for a
bit, then inject the solution.  The techs there all cared about animals and
wanted their last moments to be peaceful.

I know not all vets have this kind of concern.. so it is important that you
have a good relationship with yours.

My deepest condolences for what you are facing.  Im crying here remembering
Kodi and thinking about this.  I can only imagine the fragility of your
emotions at having to face it.

Once, I used to get prescriptions of chlorpromazine from my vet to give
my cats to sedate them for air travel.  They were oral pills.  They
worked within twenty minutes.  I still have the leftover pills, just in
case,  though I don't make the cats fly with me anymore, I get a
catsitter.  Does anyone know why they could not be given to a cat
facing the end to eliminate his fear of the trip to the vet?  Much less
traumatic to pill him at home than to have him awake on the way to the
vet, I would think.  Perhaps you could ask your vet on the phone, if
you have time.  My apologies if I am asking an obviously stupid
question here.  And my deepest condolences on what you are going
through right now.
 
--tension

Thanks to all who have helped. My beautiful brown tabby furkid went over the
rainbow bridge tonight. She was only 3 1/2 years old but left me with tons
of beautiful happy joyful moments. A unique kitty that should have lived
longer........... She was afflicted with leukemia AND lymphoma, her
suffering is done.

Kitty