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Sorry, mate.

There's never been a time in my 34 years that I didn't have cats. It never gets easier. Some hurt more than others.

I put down my sweetest pet ever in January and I'm still not close to being over it. She had a vascular sarcoma related to her vaccines. It would have cost me well over $10000 to even gamble on removing it, as well as she would lose half of her abdomen and likely have a terrible life if she survived the surgery, with an extremely high rate of the tumor coming back withing a week to a month.

So I let her ride it out for a month until she let me know it was getting to be too much. I had a vet come to my house. The last time we went to the vet's office, I promised her I'd never make her get in the cat carrier again.

Like yours, she died in my arms, in the comfort of the only home she ever knew.

The other cat I have isn't very affectionate. She was ferral and is very skiddish. I love her, but it doesn't fill that emptiness. My wife got another cat a month or so later despite me saying over and over that I wasn't ready. He's turned out to be the biggest asshole of a cat I've ever had.

So now I feel like I've went from having the sweetest pet I'll ever have, to barely having a pet at all.

I miss Ember every single day.
I wish you the best and hope that another wonderful animal finds you. You obviously have the correct heart for it.

Always trying to make me happy, even when she was on discomfort, this is Ember waking me up on the morning of her last day. She just had to make it as difficult as possible :



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I guess I'm something of a ne'er do well.
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