SpiritSephiroth posted...
Ah shit that sucks. Sorry for your loss. But your family offered him comfort in his final days which I'm sure he appreciated.
yeah. i still feel bad that we didn't do more. we could have tried to get him into a pet carrier and to the vet again sooner, when his ear started getting worse again. but we had a lot of stuff going on, going through a lot of financial difficulties, my grandfather dying of COVID and us traveling halfway across state twice to clear out his house and go to his memorial service, the property manager having a breakdown over something and getting testy with us and threatening to evict us cuz of my parents' hoarder shit in the back yard and my car which had been nonoperational for awhile and technically according to the lease was not allowed to be parked on the property.
luckily we were able to get my car and most of the junk taken care of, and the property manager has been nice lately, but still, among all that, my mom was really stressed out and we just didn't have the time or wherewithal to try to wrangle him and get him seen again. also there was the question of whether it would even do any good, according to what the vet told us before that the cancer would come back pretty much whatever we do.
and we don't even know why he disappeared and stopped eating or if it had anything to do with the cancer, or if it was something else entirely. we do know something similar happened to a cat we were pretty sure was his littermate cuz they had almost the same coloring, a few years back, he started getting thin and stopped coming around to eat when he normally would, and then one day he was just gone. we figured it was some kind of wasting disease. we saw it happen to a dog we used to own.