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Oh Just, so so sorry

Very sorry to hear your news Just .

Oh Just 😢

Sending you lots of love and (((hugs))) 🌈

So sorry for you and your family.

Darling @Justonedayatatime11 you were The best mum Darcy could have had. I’m so sorry for you. Go gently, love.

Oh @Justonedayatatime11 I can't put into words how sorry I am. It's heartbreaking. You did everything you could and gave her a lovely life.

Thank you. My lovely lovely vet scanned her abdomen before they were going to put the feeding tube in. Found it absolutely full of fluid so she drained some off and tested it and said she was 99.9% certain she had wet FIP. I managed to get back to the vets so I could be with her as they put her to sleep and she went very peacefully while I cuddled her.
Devastated doesn't come close. Yes I have numerous other cats, but none that have got to me like Darcy did. She was the naughtiest, most destructive, infuriating little cat and I loved her to pieces. Night night Darcy bug xxx

Very very sorry to read this Just. I remember the first time I saw a photo of Darcy on here and was so amazed by how beautiful she was. You did everything you could for her and more

How are you, Just? I hope you got some sleep?

I'd forgotten what it's like to feel so empty. I still can't quite believe it. Very little sleep, splitting headache and can't stop crying. I've also got her breeder giving me hell which is the absolute last thing I'm up to dealing with atm

The breeders got a cheek. I’d block the bitch. Darcy probably caught it off one of hers anyway.

Does this mean you're going to have to get all the others tested now?

Bloody breeder should know it's one of those things, and that your cats are looked after better than the vast majority. It's not like she's been out roaming the fields & socialising with strays & ferals!

@Fluffycloudland77 I'd love to block her but I also have another of her cats who is contracted to have a litter to carry on the breed. I requested to have her spayed yesterday as I don't want anything like this to happen again and she had a go at me, and then pestered me with message after message despite me asking her to leave me alone.
It's highly likely Darcys problems were genetic, the original breeder of the Suffolk was very underhand and it's come to light fairly recently that there was far far too much inbreeding.
I know I did the right thing yesterday, she was so so ill. But I feel so guilty and like it was all my fault. I'm an absolute wreck

Oh Just, you have nothing to blame yourself for.
You’ve been through so much with Darcy it’s no wonder you’ve fallen apart. Please be kind to yourself.
I wouldn’t be talking to that breeder right now, she sounds a right bitch, having a go at you. If you really have to speak to her, at least leave a few days till you’re feeling stronger.

Some phones you can mute people?.

If your having the other Suffolk spayed though do you need the grief of it?.

When we had the Persian with the ginger gene castrated his breeder got sniffy about it.

@Fluffycloudland77 that's the problem, she won't let me have her spayed

So she owns her?. Oh balls.

Nope, she's my cat @Fluffycloudland77, paid full price for her last July. But it was part of the contract that she'd have 1 litter which the breeder could choose 1 kitten from. I'd hoped she'd be sensible and considerate enough to say ok, let's not do that, it causes too much heartache, but nope, she still wants her pound of flesh.

Well you didn’t know it would turn out to be a Faustian pact with the devil.

A court would rule in her favour. Hopefully fate will twist in your favour in the meantime.

Oh Just she sounds absolutely bloody awful! Is there a governing body you could discuss this with? Surely an animal's health overrides any contract?

((( hug )))

Block that ludicrous woman @Justonedayatatime1. She doesn't have a leg to stand on and her various, er, behaviours from the last 24 hours prove it.

Try and get some sleep. (((()))) from me and Capn.

I'm going to speak to my vet again after the weekend and see if it's something she can advise on. I'm not up to a fight at the minute. My mental health has been wobbly this year to say the least, but this has just tipped me over the edge. I genuinely just want oblivion

Sweetheart, of course you feel horrible at the moment - you are shattered after all the efforts you made to save Darcy, and now you are grieving.

If it's any help, you only feel this bad cos you were so superb. But you're much too tired to see that, who wouldn't be.

My heart breaks for you sweetie - you don't deserve this. Try and get some rest and ignore the psycho on the phone. She doesn't matter long term. You do.

Exactly, Lana, you put it so well.
Scandalous way for that breeder to behave!

Breeders are certainly untroubled by sentiment aren’t they?.

If the other girl is in anyway unfit for pg and labour it’s a moot point anyway.