We lost our beautiful boy on Wednesday who slipped away in his sleep aged 15 and a half. I am absolutely devastated as didn't see it coming at all and I loved him so much. I now can't stop thinking that we should have taken him to the vet and that we let him down. He'd always been a big cat and for a long time had been overweight having been overweight when we took him and his brother in when they were 9. We got his weight under control by changing his diet and he'd been healthy since. But recently he started losing weight and had gone from 5.5 kg to about 4ish. He was getting old and so I thought it was that although was going to mention it to the vet at his annual vacs and check which we were about to book for him. But now he's gone and all I can think now is what if it was the sign of something more serious that he could have been treated for and then he'd still be here. It's all I can think about. But he had no other symptoms, showed no sign of pain, was drinking normally although was eating a bit less which we thought was just as he was getting older his appetite had decreased. Nothing that made me think we should take him but now he's gone I just wish we had in case we could have prevented his death. I know noone can say for sure but wondered whether other people would have taken their cat straight to the vet if they had lost weight? Photos attached. First for cuteness, second from last year for comparison and third the night before he died.
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