I am worrying about my cat again [sad].

[TheOriginalFAB]

She just took ages to get half up to then settle down and didn't seem to know what to do with her front right paw. Then after a minute she got down off the sofa and went out of the room.

She is 16. Her kidneys are failing, she has arthritis and has hypoestesias. She is on 4 tablets a day and special food. I am taking her for an extra check up this evening as she wasn't very well at all last week and had lost weight. She looks like she might have lost more .

The vet said we are not at that point yet but part of me worries we are but he doesn't want to say as he knows how potty I am about her. She did play a bit yesterday though and is eating the new food we had to buy her after refusing to eat anything else.

She has always been a clean girl so this isn't like her at all.

I am sorry to hear you had to have your cat PTS. What told you it was time?

I am confused as to whether her inappropriately urinating means it is time to say goodbye or whether I can just put up with it.

Her deterioration was rapid, she went from being 'normal' to really withdrawing, eating very little and limping, took her to vets & they found large lump on her kidney, which they figured was tumour, tests would have been too much, she was 17.

She ended up drinking excessively & having weeing accidents in about her last 2 weeks, then became unable to get up one day, so that decided it really

But, my other cat has been drinking excessively & weeing a lot for ages so I don't think it means the end. Might be more of a gradual decline for her, she's always been a poorly cat but vet said she's actually a tough old thing, lots of medication but still going strong, yours is probably in that category too.

Does yours also sit in the 'meatloaf' position a lot? Hunched up like a sphinx, seems to be an 'old cat' thing to do. We need some 'cat' smileys here.

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FUCK .

She sits with what we call her undercarriage up and the vet said it was to protect herself.

I go between thinking she has years to thinking it is soon .

can't cope with her dying right now

Yesterday FabCat weed on a basket of clean washing . She had access to the garden.

Grr, thats the kind of thing my very annoying cat does. If its not about 6 feet in the air she might pee on it. So piles of newspapers are a possible, as is washing, school bags, shoes

She's very cute though.

I am spending my life picking up torn paper from all over the place.

FABcat plods on. Weeing where she shouldn't. Sleeping in the sun where she shouldn't (on my bed) . Trip to vet. Bleeding nose when we got there. Blood all over carry case. Looked like she has been boxing. May be a graze. May be nose cancer .

FABCat still with is .

Has bad arthritis but coping.

Just had a mad few moments chasing her tail and biting her foot.

Then went and sat on a carrier .

I picked said carrier up to tisy up and she had peed on it. Not happy!

Just found this thread and wanted to add support. It's so, so hard. I had to make the awful decision yesterday and my dear old boy went to sleep on my lap with the lovely vet being so sensitive and staunching my tears with handfuls of tissues.

Am posting this on a bench in a shopping centre and everyone must think I'm mad - am in floods of tears just thinking about it.

BUT it was the right time. He was nearly 19, hadn't been eating properly for ages, had started throwing up all food despite anti-nausea meds. He had arthritis and pancreatitis too. He'd been such a happy little chap and I could see he wasn't himself any more.

Apologies for hi-jacking but just wanted you to know you're not alone.