Cheryl wrote:
>
> A few here know about this but my oldest cat had to be laid to rest
> yesterday. On Thursday he was acting not himself and by around 2am he
> was struggling to breathe so we went off to emergency. I had to leave
> him, but long story short, by morning he'd gotten much worse and if he
> wasn't on oxygen he struggled. Vet at first thought congenital heart
> failure but after xrays wasn't sure if it was his heart or his lungs
> because both were suspect. After the radiologist came in she said to
> rule out heart failure and try to treat his lung disease she needed more
> tests. In the meantime he was going downhill because oxygen and Lasix
> wasn't helping. I had to make a decision quickly which way to go and I
> decided to end the suffering. He was only 15. He has left a
> Shamrock-shaped hole in my heart. "Goodbye good boy, mommy already
> misses you so much".

Cheryl, I'm so sorry to here this. You even mentioned him to me just
the other day about his hard breathing. I'm sure that making that
final decision was so hard but it sounds like you made the best one.
He's at peace now.

I sure hope that all this "crossing the rainbow bridge" stuff turns
out to be real. Wouldn't it be nice, when you finally die, to actually
be reunited with all your old pets, relatives, friends that have gone
before and live forever together in a good place? *That* would be a
true Heaven to me.

Give your other 4 kittys big hugs and love. They'll miss him too.