We lost our beloved boy Alfie on Monday evening and are all heartbroken.
Alf was just shy of 17 and has been a complete joy and given us so much love. He came at 8 weeks as a rescue kitten and has been our 2 boys best friend as they have grown up into men - they are devastated 😔
Alf was more like a dog than a cat and was so chilled and loving - he loved everything and everyone. We will miss his head bumps, taking chirrups, very loud purrs - he would purr when he saw you - and the love and joy he gave us in spades. We were blessed and there will never be another like him. We lost his best friend - our beautiful dog Ben to liver cancer in January so it’s been an awful year and the pain is just dreadful.
I hope we did the right thing it was such a bloody awful decision to make as he still looked beautiful and about 5! But Alf had been struggling with awful arthritis in his back legs for a year and his kidneys were starting to fail from the meds. He was sleeping more and more and I felt his dignity was beginning to go. He had spent the weekend at the vets in a drip trying to stem the kidney failure but it didn’t work - we felt we owed him the chance. When it was clear on Monday that hadn’t worked it was time to say goodbye, I feel so awful and guilty, god I miss our special big lad so so much 💔