thanksgiving night our kitty started to jump up on the bed from a bench at the end so approximately 18", and fell off on his butt due to a plate that had some turkey that I gave he and his brother a little earlier . I forgot to take it away . Now he has had problems with walking for a few months now from what we thought was from his weight , he was a little overweight , and age , vet said it was fine in the summer as he and his brother are 19 so she felt better to have done weight at his age in case he did ever get sick. Well long story short after the fall he could hardly walk and lost control of his bladder and it broke my heart . He had not been walking around a lot in the past weeks anyways, they had there own bed and and slept on a down comforter together always. DH and I stayed up with him all night till we could call his vet in the morning. We had to take him yo the litter box , and water so to make sure he didn't try to jump from the bed. Once at the vet she did labs and it showed advanced diabetes and kidney disease ! We had no idea, cats are notorious for hiding illness till it's too late. She said if he hadn't fallen then he would have fallen soon and maybe we would not have been home even. He appeared lifeless and just layed there. Ordinarily he was aggravated and not cooperative when at the vet , he did t even try to Swat her even when taking his temperature. She told us that she felt by his numbers and how he was acting his quality of life would most likely go downhill fast. If we took him home he need insulin twice a day and fluids and even then she didnt hold much hope, and that he could go into respitory distress at my time. Plus his age wasn't in his favor . My DH and I talked about it spent an hour with him and finally knew what we had to do for him. Held him while he passed , sobbing ...miss him terribly . His brother is breaking our heart as he just walks around meowing and looking for his brother, they were litter mates and inseparable . We are giving him Tons of extra love , -and treats , we know it's going to take time for all of us to grieve. Being holiday time is only making it worse, we want to just cancel Christmas this year. No more one way trips after his brother passes it's too devasting and have done it too many times in my life. We miss that unconditional love that only pets provide.
Sorry this his was so long , tried to gather my thoughts better, guess I didnt succeed though.
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