Hardest decision

[TheGriffle]

I think we’ve finally decided it’s time to get our 12 year old cat put to sleep.

For the last year she’s had liquid stools. Vets given her 6 antibiotic injections, they work for a week or so then we’re back to liquid. She’s lost loads of weight this last year, she’s being sick every other day and the vet thinks it’s probably cancer as the antibiotics haven’t fixed it.

She’s not groomed herself in all this time and her fur is matted, very matted. she only lets us brush her for 10 mins or so before she’s had enough and that’s when we bribe her with a pouch of food (which doesn’t help with the sick).
She’s been sedated and brushed out by the vets once already this year and she’s matted up again in 4 months, even with us brushing her.

We come down in the morning to liquid in the litter tray and sick on the floor.

I feel horrible as she’s still young and her brother is in perfect health still.

Poor you. And poor cat. But I think it sounds like it's the right thing. Plan what you want to happen. Before you go, it makes it easier. Rather than having to make decisions when you are upset.

Hi, that's so sad, I'm sorry.

What has your vet advised? Do they think it's time? The best advice we had was that it's better to let them go too soon than too late, and it's a real kindness to let them go. I really struggled with it when my boy was ill and needed to be told that.

They’ve ultimately said it’s our decision, we can investigate for cancer or let her go and tbh, she’s 12, hates the vets with a passion (she’s known as a difficult patient there!) and I don’t think it’s fair to put her through invasive tests and possible treatment.

They had to sedate her to brush her knots out last time and she would need this again very soon and every 4 months or so after that and that would take its toll on her as well.

She doesn’t look happy, she’s greasy, matted, she growls at her brother all the time and is weeing outside of her tray as well sometimes so I def think it’s the right decision, its just a hard one. We’ve had her longer than our children have been alive.

We lost one of our 2 db's after massive weight loss. He was only 8...
Covid prevented test results being of any use in time..
His db was depressed to say the least. Ended up getting a dkitten.. They bonded very quickly..
Wasn't my go to solution but it worked...