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Old 06-03-2002, 06:41 PM   #1
PKRWUD
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Default Life Really Sucks Sometimes.

Life really sucks sometimes. As you all know, I am a cat person. I live alone in a 3 story condo, with 7 cats. Now, I didn't just wake up one day and say to myself, "I want to have 7 cats!". It was a little more complex than that. It all started with Charlie, a kitten I rescued from neighborhood bullies when I lived in N.J. in the 1970's. She lived to be 14, but when she died, in 1988, I was devastated. I ended up going to the pound and rescuing two kittens that were scheduled to be put to sleep that day. They are named Randy Rhoads, and Rudy Sarzo.

About 7 years ago, my girlfriend at the time lived in a house at which the neighborhood strays would come and hang out. As a result, they had a new litter of kittens 3 or 4 times a year. They usually had no trouble giving them away, but when they did, I stepped in. The first such cat is the one I now call Oscar. He just wasn't very friendly, and so nobody wanted him. He had ringworm, too, but I knew that was a passing stage. We buddied up well, and he became as friendly as any other cat, he just needed a little attention. A few months ago, he was losing weight, and didn't look too good, so we went to the Vet. To my surprise, Oscar had become a diabetic cat. I now give him insulin injections twice daily.

The second and third cats (Barney & Teaka) to come from my ex's house were healthy, and would have been snatched up quickly, but I just loved them, so I kept them. This was about a year after Oscar.

Then there was Gar. He had an eye infection when he was born, and one of his eyes became swollen, and literally popped. They were going to have him put down because no one was going to want a one eyed cat, but he was sooo cool, I couldn't let that happen. So, about a year after adopting Barney and Teaka, Gar became cat number 6.

The last one, Spaz, was abandond by her mother at only one day old. I raised her from that point on. I had to alter my work schedule just so that I could be home every 2 hours to bottle feed her. That whole time was a real experience.

Anyway, Randy and Rudy will both be 14 this August. Unfortunately, Rudy isn't going to make it. She has been developing a really bad cough for a year now, and I've tried everything. I've spent close to $1000 over 12 months just in Vet visits, tests and meds. It's only been recently that she has started to really look and sound like she might be suffering, and I don't want that. She has her good days and her bad ones, but it's just not realistic to think she's gonna pull out of it.

I have come to the decision that I am going to have to put her down, in the near future. This is not something I have done before, and since Rudy is probably my favorite, this is going to be tough. I know this is something people do every day, I'm just not quite ready for it. The idea of holding her in my arms and watching her die just doesn't do alot for me. I didn't really mean to take up anyones time with this, I just needed to write it down to see if it made things any easier, and it has, a little bit. Thanks.

This is a picture of Rudy that was taken right after I got her, in the fall of 1988:



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-Chris
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