Today, I had to put my cat to sleep.
He was diagnosed with kidney disease last year, and has been slowly deteriorating since then.
My mother and I cared for him this last year, giving him subcutaneous fluids and medication, but in the last three days he became severely lethargic and lost his appetite. He couldn't walk, his back legs were very weak, and we were having to carry him to his litter box and spoon feed him.
Today, my mother and I decided it was time to take him and end his suffering, with the thought that any more time we kept him with us would be prolonging his pain only for our sake.
So we took him to the vet and they put him to sleep while we stood there petting and talking to him, letting him know how much we love him and how much we'll miss him.
I can't stop crying. He was 19, and i have had him since i was 5. I loved him the best of all my animals, he was the best cat you could ask for. Sweet, loving, cuddly.
The house seems emptier without him, colder and lonelier.
My heart is breaking and breaking and breaking and i can't make it stop.
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