On 8/8/2014 9:10 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> jmcquown wrote:
>>
>> I didn't really feel like cooking. I had to have my lovely cat Persia
>> PTS today.
>
> I feel bad for Persia.
>
Thank you, Sheldon. It was difficult to do but the vet said even with
medication she wouldn't have lasted more than 2-3 more weeks. I
couldn't put her through that. So I let her go.

Jill

On Fri, 08 Aug 2014 21:20:00 -0400, jmcquown >
wrote:

>On 8/8/2014 9:10 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>> jmcquown wrote:
>>>
>>> I didn't really feel like cooking. I had to have my lovely cat Persia
>>> PTS today.
>>
>> I feel bad for Persia.
>>
>Thank you, Sheldon. It was difficult to do but the vet said even with
>medication she wouldn't have lasted more than 2-3 more weeks. I
>couldn't put her through that. So I let her go.

Good move... as her organs shut down she'd suffer.

On 8/9/2014 11:50 AM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Aug 2014 21:20:00 -0400, jmcquown >
> wrote:
>
>> On 8/8/2014 9:10 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>> jmcquown wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I didn't really feel like cooking. I had to have my lovely cat Persia
>>>> PTS today.
>>>
>>> I feel bad for Persia.
>>>
>> Thank you, Sheldon. It was difficult to do but the vet said even with
>> medication she wouldn't have lasted more than 2-3 more weeks. I
>> couldn't put her through that. So I let her go.
>
> Good move... as her organs shut down she'd suffer.
>
Absolutely. She showed me the x-rays. Not only were her kidneys
shrunken but she'd developed kidney stones. It's a shame they can't
tell us when they feel bad. Still, for a few days she barely picked at
her food. I pretty much knew that trip to the vet would be the last one.

Jill

On 8/9/2014 2:29 PM, jmcquown wrote:
> On 8/9/2014 11:50 AM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>> On Fri, 08 Aug 2014 21:20:00 -0400, jmcquown >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 8/8/2014 9:10 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>>> jmcquown wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I didn't really feel like cooking. I had to have my lovely cat Persia
>>>>> PTS today.
>>>>
>>>> I feel bad for Persia.
>>>>
>>> Thank you, Sheldon. It was difficult to do but the vet said even with
>>> medication she wouldn't have lasted more than 2-3 more weeks. I
>>> couldn't put her through that. So I let her go.
>>
>> Good move... as her organs shut down she'd suffer.
>>
> Absolutely. She showed me the x-rays. Not only were her kidneys
> shrunken but she'd developed kidney stones. It's a shame they can't
> tell us when they feel bad. Still, for a few days she barely picked at
> her food. I pretty much knew that trip to the vet would be the last
> one.
>
> Jill

It hurts when you discover that they are feeling bad and of course we
humans have no idea, we tend to notice their eating patterns, weight
loss and changes in sleeping behavior.

Two vets told me that animals hide the fact that they are ill, because
it leaves them vulnerable to being attacked.

Becca

On 2014-08-09 5:20 PM, Ema Nymton wrote:
Jill
>
> It hurts when you discover that they are feeling bad and of course we
> humans have no idea, we tend to notice their eating patterns, weight
> loss and changes in sleeping behavior.
>

I have to confess I did not notice my Groenendahls weight loss. It was
gradual. He was 72 pounds when we got him. As he got older his weight
decreased bit by bit, but he had long hair and the loss didn't show. I
was shocked when we took him in for that one way trip and he weighed in
at 48.

On Sat, 09 Aug 2014 17:25:06 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2014-08-09 5:20 PM, Ema Nymton wrote:
> Jill
>>
>> It hurts when you discover that they are feeling bad and of course we
>> humans have no idea, we tend to notice their eating patterns, weight
>> loss and changes in sleeping behavior.
>>
>
>I have to confess I did not notice my Groenendahls weight loss. It was
>gradual. He was 72 pounds when we got him. As he got older his weight
>decreased bit by bit, but he had long hair and the loss didn't show. I
>was shocked when we took him in for that one way trip and he weighed in
>at 48.

How could anyone with a normally functioning brain not notice that
their dog lost nearly 1/3 of its weight? I don't believe you...
you're either lying or you're brain dead, there is no other
explanation.

On 8/9/2014 6:59 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> On Sat, 09 Aug 2014 17:25:06 -0400, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
>
>> On 2014-08-09 5:20 PM, Ema Nymton wrote:
>> Jill
>>>
>>> It hurts when you discover that they are feeling bad and of course we
>>> humans have no idea, we tend to notice their eating patterns, weight
>>> loss and changes in sleeping behavior.
>>>
>>
>> I have to confess I did not notice my Groenendahls weight loss. It was
>> gradual. He was 72 pounds when we got him. As he got older his weight
>> decreased bit by bit, but he had long hair and the loss didn't show. I
>> was shocked when we took him in for that one way trip and he weighed in
>> at 48.
>
> How could anyone with a normally functioning brain not notice that
> their dog lost nearly 1/3 of its weight? I don't believe you...
> you're either lying or you're brain dead, there is no other
> explanation.
>

There are "dust mop" dogs. You know the fluffy little ones that you can
put a stick up their butts and use the for a dust mop. I'd never be
able to tell if one of those fur balls lost weight unless I picked it up
several times a day.

--
From somewhere very deep in the heart of Texas

jmcquown wrote:
> On 8/9/2014 11:50 AM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>> On Fri, 08 Aug 2014 21:20:00 -0400, jmcquown >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 8/8/2014 9:10 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>>> jmcquown wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I didn't really feel like cooking. I had to have my lovely cat Persia
>>>>> PTS today.
>>>>
>>>> I feel bad for Persia.
>>>>
>>> Thank you, Sheldon. It was difficult to do but the vet said even with
>>> medication she wouldn't have lasted more than 2-3 more weeks. I
>>> couldn't put her through that. So I let her go.
>>
>> Good move... as her organs shut down she'd suffer.
>>
> Absolutely. She showed me the x-rays. Not only were her kidneys
> shrunken but she'd developed kidney stones. It's a shame they can't
> tell us when they feel bad. Still, for a few days she barely picked at
> her food. I pretty much knew that trip to the vet would be the last
> one.
>
> Jill

Sigh. I sure wish I had known that Ming was most likely in pain.
Looking back, I can speculate a bit. Can you look back and see little
things that might have been clues that Persia was very sick?

Did you make previous posts about Persia, or was this very sudden?

On 8/10/2014 12:14 AM, Jean B. wrote:
>
> Sigh. I sure wish I had known that Ming was most likely in pain.
> Looking back, I can speculate a bit. Can you look back and see little
> things that might have been clues that Persia was very sick?
>
> Did you make previous posts about Persia, or was this very sudden?

I know what you mean. I had a cat, Marley, my first heart cat, and he
was very sick by the time I knew it. He had megacolon. I had to keep
taking him in for enemas once he was diagnosed, but that wasn't until
one night he let out the most soulful moan and was stretching his body
in a strange way, and only then was I able to tell he was in a lot of
pain. My first ever experience with an all night vet clinic. They tried
a medication for him, plus I was supposed to feed him food with pumpkin
in it for the fiber. He wouldn't eat it of course and when it got to
where he wasn't able to "go" on his own, it was either surgery or time
to let him go. The surgery sounded like a horrible thing for him to live
with, so he had to be let go out of his misery. I cried and cried,
and then cried for days. A lot of guilt over that, too, because I felt I
should have known sooner how sick he was.

--
ღ.¸¸.œ«*¨`*œ¶
Cheryl

On 8/10/2014 12:14 AM, Jean B. wrote:
> jmcquown wrote:
>> On 8/9/2014 11:50 AM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>> On Fri, 08 Aug 2014 21:20:00 -0400, jmcquown >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 8/8/2014 9:10 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>>>> jmcquown wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I didn't really feel like cooking. I had to have my lovely cat
>>>>>> Persia
>>>>>> PTS today.
>>>>>
>>>>> I feel bad for Persia.
>>>>>
>>>> Thank you, Sheldon. It was difficult to do but the vet said even with
>>>> medication she wouldn't have lasted more than 2-3 more weeks. I
>>>> couldn't put her through that. So I let her go.
>>>
>>> Good move... as her organs shut down she'd suffer.
>>>
>> Absolutely. She showed me the x-rays. Not only were her kidneys
>> shrunken but she'd developed kidney stones. It's a shame they can't
>> tell us when they feel bad. Still, for a few days she barely picked at
>> her food. I pretty much knew that trip to the vet would be the last
>> one.
>>
>> Jill
>
> Sigh. I sure wish I had known that Ming was most likely in pain.
> Looking back, I can speculate a bit. Can you look back and see little
> things that might have been clues that Persia was very sick?
>
She was slowing down, not playing like she used to. Since I don't
really know how old she was I chocked it up to old age. I'm sure that
was a factor, too.

> Did you make previous posts about Persia, or was this very sudden?
>
>
I may have mentioned her. She was diagnosed with early stage renal
failure 2 years ago. She'd been on various r/x foods for different
medical issues for 10 years. In 2010 she was diagnosed with
hyperthyroidism and turned out to be allergic to the medication. I'd
have lost her then if her vet hadn't gone the extra mile. She found a
clinic outside of Charleston that does radioactive isotope therapy.
That gave us another four years together, even though (for a while) I
had a radioactive cat.

The only real indication I had that this was "it" was she pretty much
stopped eating. I could only coax her to eat a couple of bites. I
could tell she was hungry but she just wouldn't eat. She was drinking a
lot of water - which is common (from what I understand) with kidney
failure. She went downhill pretty rapidly. So, I had known it was
coming. I guess I'd just hoped she'd be with me a little longer.

I'm so very sorry for your losing Ming. Don't blame yourself. Pets are
very good at hiding when they don't feel well. And we, people, just
want to hope...

Jill