RIP My Sweet Girl…

For the past month, I’ve been watching my sweet Perky girl decline. She was sick, but the vet thought it was allergies at first. I hoped that she was right. Unfortunately, she was wrong. Her breathing got worse and worse and she ate less and less. On Monday, I took her to the vet for an x-ray and found it was my worst fear: congestive heart failure and she was full of fluid. She could barely breathe. I knew the only right thing to do at that point was to put her out of her suffering, and so I pet her and loved on her as she went to sleep for the last time and I said goodbye.

She’s left a huge void in my life. She was 14 1/2 years old and I’d had her from just a week old. Her mama had been killed by a car and friends of mine had found her and her 3 siblings. I took her in and raised her. She loved me and I loved her. Her absence is felt throughout the house. Our other two cats look for her and now mourn her. They know she’s gone and so Boo, who was bonded to her, has been hiding a lot. She definitely misses her and is also feeling very insecure. I don’t blame her. I miss getting groomed by her, her cuddles, her loud purrs that earned her her name, her parading around the house with her mouse announcing she has it and then leaving it for me in places I’d find it like my shoes, bed, clothing… She was a sweet, sassy kitty and I will love her forever. RIP my sweet girl… I’ll see you again someday.