My beautiful little boy Elton died last night and I am heartbroken. As I have mentioned here before he was FIV positive and had quite advanced CKD but he was young and strong and coped so well that it lulled us into a false sense of security. Over the last couple of days though he suddenly declined and was clearly very tired and weak. The vet diagnosed severe anaemia on top of the CKD and we were referred for a blood transfusion which would have bought him some time for other treatments to be tried. We drove him for 3 hours to the vetinary hospital and he was such a good boy, sitting quietly in his cage, but the doctors there said there wasn't really anything they could do as his body was basically shutting down. He was put to sleep at 10pm last night and slipped away very peacefully with us there. I'm not sure if he really knew we were there as he was sedated and very weak but I do hope he knew how very loved he was. I can't stop crying today. Here's a photo of the best boy there ever was.