To feel so bereft that I am having to put my beloved cat to sleep tomorrow

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I cannot even begin to tell you how distraught I am feeling right now.
She was the most characterful, sassy but loving cat you could imagine. She almost felt like a child to me, the love I have for her. We are all devastated.

She has had some difficulties this last week after suffering a broken leg from a RTC and subsequent amputation, she is not recovering and developed further complications. So we today have had to make the most awful decision you don’t ever want to make…… end her pain and misery and put her to sleep.

I am crying typing this, because I cannot imagine our life without her. We are going to say our goodbyes tomorrow and then shall be taking home our deceased and much loved beautiful cat.

How on earth do you begin to get over this? It feels like one of my family is dying and I don’t know how to begin to make us alll feel better right now!

Sorry, probably not the place to post this, but need to put my feelings down and have some kind of support.

Thank you so much each and every one of you.
I didn’t get much sleep as you can imagine, uncontrollable crying like some of you have mentioned is exactly what I have been doing.
My other two cats are wrestling around like they haven’t even noticed she isn’t here. But then my Moo Moo as we called her, isn’t here to boss them about, so they’re probably loving the freedom!
Our apt back at the vets is 12.20 today and they’ve said to come in much earlier to spend some last moments with her.
My god this hurts so much!!
again, thank you for your very kind words, they have given me some comfort for sure, we truly are a world of animal lovers x ❤️

We had to do this many years ago and I still remember my son and I sitting sobbing in the car when it was over. It really hurts. 💐

Bless you OP. I feel your pain. Im choked. You can do this ♥️ xxx

I had a cat whose nickname was MooMoo, a darling girl. All the hugs, OP. ❤️

Thinking of you😻

I'm so sorry, OP. It's bloody bloody awful. Hugs to you and your beloved kitty. I'm sure you have given her a wonderful life 💐💐💐

I'm so sorry. We had to let our wonderful, gorgeous dog go last Friday and the grief has been unreal, so my heart truly goes out to you.

Thinking of you just now. It truly is the most awful thing to decide and go through with. Just been there 3 weeks ago with our old lovely dog, she was my wing woman in a home full of men and chaos. The guilt felt and tears shed are so heavy. Remember it’s done with love and to stop suffering so I take a bit of comfort from thinking I’m feeling like this so she doesn’t. X.

I’m so sorry. I had to make that choice for my girl in April. Thankfully it was there and then in the vets, I don’t think I could have coped having to have her overnight knowing what was going to happen.

We had her cremated and the box her ashes came back in was beautiful. They also gave us two little pots, like tiny scent bottles, with some of her fur and sent a card.

We had to put down our almost 20 year old cat a few years ago. My son has ASD and they were very close. We had the vet come to our house to do it because we didn’t want her to be scared. Afterwards me and my son hugged and sobbed. I was blindsided by the grief, I wasn’t expecting to feel so emotional about it. For several days every time I pictured her last moments on my sons lap I would burst into tears. But we comforted each other and I adopted the one foot in front of the other approach to get through it. We talked about her a lot which helped. We had her cremated and her ashes are in a little casket next to my sons bed, where she often slept. He put a little pouch of cat treats next to it. He says he never wants to get another pet because he doesn’t want to go through that again. So grieve as much as you want to, or need to. Don’t listen to people who say ‘it’s only a cat’ because they don’t understand. I hate to admit this but my father died a year later and I didn’t cry at all. We weren’t close.