Of the suck
Aug. 26th, 2010 10:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mari4212So yesterday went from okay to sucking beyond all reason.
The short form of it is, we now only have one stray cat to find a home for, instead of two.
When we brought Euclid and Euripides into the house, both of them were active, wandering around and exploring their new room, checking out the food and water dishes, and generally doing what kittens do best, being cute about it all.
That was Sunday. Monday, they were both still active, but Euclid was much more content to curl up in a lap and just stay there being cuddled. We thought that was just because he enjoyed being petted and having affection showered on him.
Tuesday was more of the same, but Euclid was even more focused on curling up in a lap, and less likely to swap positions than he had been. We introduced him to my sister and brother-in-law, and tolady_tigerfish, and he enjoyed getting all the cuddles and attention again, while Euripides bounced back and forth from getting attention, eating, and trying to escape out of the room the second the door was open.
Yesterday, apparently, he was fine, if quiet, up through noon, when Mom went in to check on them. I was up with my brother visiting my uncle in Sydney, since he's recovering from surgery and needed someone with him just in case.
I came home, and at about three in the afternoon heard a very distressed sounding mew from the room we had the kittens in. When I walked in, I saw Euclid curled up on the couch, and his mewing sounded painful and upset. When I started petting him, he continued making the whimpery mews, and he smelled bad, the same kind of smell that I'd smelled from my cat Blackie before his death.
I got really worried, and carried him upstairs and showed Mom and Thomas, who both agreed that he didn't look good. We called our vet, who told us to just take him straight to the Dayton Urgent Care center for pets. Thomas and I drove out at once.
The vet took a look at him, told us that he was very sick, that the odor was indicative of advanced renal failure, that there was a high probability that he wasn't going to make it regardless of what they did, and that the expenses to try to diagnose what was wrong and fix it were going to start at nearly 700 dollars, and go up from there.
We just don't have that kind of money, and the vet was pretty clear on the fact that Euclid wasn't likely to recover, even with the treatments and intervention. So we had to make the decision to put him to sleep.
It was heartbreaking, but he was in so much pain that neither of us could see the point in dragging it out and making him suffer more. So we held him and cuddled him while the doctor gave him the cocktail to put him to sleep, and then we took him home and buried him.
And now we've got Euripides, his brother, still downstairs in his room, and he seems healthy and active as ever, but it's obvious that he's wondering where his brother is, and will be for a while longer.
I would have posted about this last night, but the power went out, and when we got power back on, our cable connection, which also gives us phone and internet, stayed out. I'm typing this up at the library.
The short form of it is, we now only have one stray cat to find a home for, instead of two.
When we brought Euclid and Euripides into the house, both of them were active, wandering around and exploring their new room, checking out the food and water dishes, and generally doing what kittens do best, being cute about it all.
That was Sunday. Monday, they were both still active, but Euclid was much more content to curl up in a lap and just stay there being cuddled. We thought that was just because he enjoyed being petted and having affection showered on him.
Tuesday was more of the same, but Euclid was even more focused on curling up in a lap, and less likely to swap positions than he had been. We introduced him to my sister and brother-in-law, and to
lady_tigerfish, and he enjoyed getting all the cuddles and attention again, while Euripides bounced back and forth from getting attention, eating, and trying to escape out of the room the second the door was open.Yesterday, apparently, he was fine, if quiet, up through noon, when Mom went in to check on them. I was up with my brother visiting my uncle in Sydney, since he's recovering from surgery and needed someone with him just in case.
I came home, and at about three in the afternoon heard a very distressed sounding mew from the room we had the kittens in. When I walked in, I saw Euclid curled up on the couch, and his mewing sounded painful and upset. When I started petting him, he continued making the whimpery mews, and he smelled bad, the same kind of smell that I'd smelled from my cat Blackie before his death.
I got really worried, and carried him upstairs and showed Mom and Thomas, who both agreed that he didn't look good. We called our vet, who told us to just take him straight to the Dayton Urgent Care center for pets. Thomas and I drove out at once.
The vet took a look at him, told us that he was very sick, that the odor was indicative of advanced renal failure, that there was a high probability that he wasn't going to make it regardless of what they did, and that the expenses to try to diagnose what was wrong and fix it were going to start at nearly 700 dollars, and go up from there.
We just don't have that kind of money, and the vet was pretty clear on the fact that Euclid wasn't likely to recover, even with the treatments and intervention. So we had to make the decision to put him to sleep.
It was heartbreaking, but he was in so much pain that neither of us could see the point in dragging it out and making him suffer more. So we held him and cuddled him while the doctor gave him the cocktail to put him to sleep, and then we took him home and buried him.
And now we've got Euripides, his brother, still downstairs in his room, and he seems healthy and active as ever, but it's obvious that he's wondering where his brother is, and will be for a while longer.
I would have posted about this last night, but the power went out, and when we got power back on, our cable connection, which also gives us phone and internet, stayed out. I'm typing this up at the library.