My cat is 16 years old and is just a lovely old girl. She is my therapist when I moan about the family and put the world to rights. She is becoming frail with arthritis of her back legs, seems a bit confused at times and is getting repeated bursting abscesses in her tooth on one side of her mouth. She has a 3rd infected abscess in a number of months and the vet today said they would continue to return given her teeth and that she would require a general anaesthetic to remove the tooth and maybe teeth and older cats do not do so well in those circumstances.
I was upset in the surgery and the vet suggested I took her home with painkillers and antibiotics and get used to the idea of putting her to sleep and then make an appointment to do so. I am finding this so hard. In the past with other cats I have taken them to the vets and not brought them home again. To keep looking at her and knowing we are near the end is so very painful. How did you cope with this please?