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Manfred Mann - 17 May 2007 15:04 GMT

Yesterday I had to put my cat to sleep but I wanted to point out
something.

For years we couldn't figure out why she was going outside of the
litter box after years of using the box. (She was 18 years old,
had her since she was 8 weeks old.)

Well now we know. Last week her kidney levels were very high,
we tried an intrevenous drip to bring it down, alas she got
progessively worse, and yesterday I had to put her to let her
go. She stopped eating, was having trouble walking,
and seemed to know the end was near.

But the point here is for years the vets/behaviorist and I thought
it was behavioral, the tests always came back normal. Now the
tests show an extremely high kidney level.

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Professor - 17 May 2007 15:58 GMT

> Yesterday I had to put my cat to sleep but I wanted to point out
> something.
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> it was behavioral, the tests always came back normal. Now the
> tests show an extremely high kidney level.

We kept our old cat alive for 3 years with virtually no kidney function. It
was a lot of work, but we couldn't just give up. Some people have a port
installed to make it easier to infuse fluid but we decided that was too
invasive.

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Manfred Mann - 17 May 2007 18:33 GMT

>> Yesterday I had to put my cat to sleep but I wanted to point out
>> something.
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>installed to make it easier to infuse fluid but we decided that was too
>invasive.

For me what pushed me over the edge to decide it was time to end
her suffering was when she 1. stopped eating (I had to force feed
her.) 2. she was having lots of trouble walking which came on
suddenly (the vet was saying it seemed to be related to her
kidneys.)

We gave her introvenous fluid which seemed rather cruel and
somewhat painful. But ultimately it was the trouble walking
and the apparent pain she was in that pushed me to end it.
She definetly appeared to be in pain and it didn't seem
fair to inflict that much more pain on her to keep her
alive.

For me it seemed very selfish to keep her alive in
spite of the pain.

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Jason James - 19 May 2007 23:27 GMT

> >> Yesterday I had to put my cat to sleep but I wanted to point out
> >> something.
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> For me it seemed very selfish to keep her alive in
> spite of the pain.

That was our experience too. She had lost weight, was very despondant and
restless. We took the decision to end her suffering.

Jason

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