Sniffles may have Cancer :(

Podge knows somethings up. He had attached himself to Sniffles from day one even though she was of course indifferent to him! In the last year she had tolerated him alot more and allowed him to sit near her. Probably more to get heat from him ha ..... *sigh*

You would think I would have hardened up a bit considering how many have died from Leukemia/CatFlu etc. But nope. Got a full loo roll here and gonna spend the night crying and eating junk food and listening to sad songs!!

Know it was the best thing but.....just was so sudden.

That photo doesn't show her full fluffyness. At times she would look like she had been electricuted her fur was just so thick and yet soft and sticking out all over. She looked like she was obese! But it was just all the fur. Never seen a cat like her before.
She was the last one remaining out of the very first 3 I adopted.

theghost wrote: »

You never get hardened to a pet's passing - every one is just as heartbreaking.

Yeah I know
Just would make things alot easier if you did

Just keep thinking about her funny little markings on her legs.
Her back legs the way the fur was coloured it looked like she was wearing wee brown leg warmers kinda like socks!
But it was the front leg markings that were really cool.

When she would be sitting staring at you(trying to stare you down to bring her food:)), her whole chest was white and all down the front legs were white apart from half way down her two legs. There was basically a diamond shape in brown. Like half of a diamond on one leg and the other on the other leg. Then when she would sit and have her legs together there was a perfect shape. It was cool. Not sure if that comes out right but looked like this:

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She would always win the staring contest from afar! If I was up close she wouldn't even look at me. She had the rarest wee personality.:)
Really expected her to live the longest. Know Podge won't live long so was already planning on taking Sniffles and Tabby with me when I moved. Was just discussing in another thread how I didn't know if Sniffles would take to living indoors full time. Now I'll never know.

Thanks for the messages guys. Hopefully their tests will come back ok. This time tomorrow I will have dropped them in.

Loopsie wrote: »

Toni reading your posts im in floods of tears, you have lost of member of the family and like with losing a person time will ease it
I hate when people say something so inappropriate like 'ah sure it was only a cat' i wanna scream and punch their lights out.............
i cannot understand people who cannot bond with animals
We lost persia not so long ago, the thoughts that stop me getting upset is i know she had no quality of life left
Kai and I lost one of our best friends and its devastating
Loopsie xxxxxxxxxx

People can be utter twats. Still get people saying "do ya still have all them cats? Here I'll give you a plastic bag and the river is that way *chuckle chuckle*" WTF? :mad: People be like I'm only joking....really? I like a joke as much as the next person but I never feicin joke about drowning animals.

As for when you mention unfortunately one has passed away and they turn and say ahhh well one less mouth to feed. Ignorant old farts. Or stupid lads who only think cats are pets for girls

They think I'm even more mental for actually spending money on them by taking them to the vets. I have no time for people like that anymore. Least future generations will have it drummed into them to go to vets and the old generations who think it's silly will feicin die off. :mad:

I use to get given out to for putting money into the Donegal pet rescue charity box in the shop. Saying I should be giving any spare money to cancer charities. Ah excuse me? I feicin do give money to such charities but if I want to give money to an animal charity then I feicin will. It's my God damn money. Ok I'll stop ranting now!

Yeah you mentioned Persia in the other thread You did the right thing though. No point in making them suffer just so you can have them for that little while longer even though it's heartbreaking having to let them go

Least you will be giving a new cat/kitten a home soon. They of course won't ever take Persias place but just find a new place of their own in the family

For me I don't think I'll be taking in anymore strays for awhile....well actually there have been none coming round in the last year or more I'd say. Though....in fairness who am I kidding if a new cat landed at my door they would have found a home >.< Just can't say no!

hamlet1 wrote: »

i am so sad looking at that utterly beautiful cat that had to be put down.my own beauty has started getting recurrent episodes where he is flaked out and sore and miserable for about 4 days and then hes in top form again.this used happen every 3 months but its happening every fortnight now.vet just thought it was a virus,but hes going for blood tests tomorrow and i am dreading the result.i too hate it when someone says its only a cat,cant you get another.they havent a clue

I know all my cats have been beautiful to me but Sniffles was like the Queen of them all the way she went about. A very silent and cold Queen but gradually over the years you could give her pets without her toddling off straight away. She did enjoy it but once she realised she had shown you that she was back to I'm-Tough-Kitty-Who-Doesn't-Need-You-Human!

With her being such a bossy boots and could control the rest without any hiss or meow or anything, I was really surprised when I first heard her meow. I mean she didn't speak to us for a year or seriously long time maybe longer from the moment we got her nothing but silence. Then on way to vets one time while she was in her crate in back seat I heard this TINY TINY meow. Like the weakest softest kitten type meow I've ever heard. Even the kittens I've had sounded louder than her. Me and Mum both looked at each other like...WTF It was soo cute. I was like "ah-ha! You aint such a big toughie after all!"

Ahh it's wee things like that make ya smile thinking about them. Everybody gets to have the memories and at least we all have them even if they do make you tear up every now and again

Hope your test results come back with something positive or they can treat it in someway. Let us know. Thoughts are with you xx

We are leaving here at 11am to drop Tabby and Podge out for getting the tests done. They will probably have to sedate them so they will call me with the results and then I'll go back out and just go from there.

Arrived at vets this morning with Tabby and Podge.

There was a slight incident with a woman who couldn't control her dog very well a massive golden lab or something. He was lunging for everyone in the wee room. Not meaning any harm as such but the cats were freaking out and the others in room were very uncomfortable having that sized thing coming at them!

Podge was amazing when we got seen too I was so proud and the vets were all impressed with how easy going he always is He didn't need to be sedated to take the bloods and was just loving the attention on him.

I signed the consent form to have Tabby sedated and for them to do the blood tests and give him a dental. His teeth were always very bad for God knows how long before I took him in so we actually have no idea how old he is.

So went back out there now and picked up Tabby. He's only coming round from the sedation and hasn't a clue what's going on. He is also dribbling and bleeding a bit from his mouth due to the dental. I've still got him in his crate sitting on top of my desk in my bedroom so he can still see me and know I'm there but that he is secure in one place and won't hurt himself stubbling about. Only open the crate to gently wipe away the drooly blood and give him a little light pet. Guess it would feel like us when we come back from the dentists! They also gave him a shot of antibiotics.

Now onto the main thing.
I asked about the test results for both of them, the Leukemia and FIV tests.
They are both positive

To say the feeling on hearing that news was like someone had punched me in the stomach would be an understatement.

Now I've no idea if maybe Tabby infected the others or if Podge did or maybe Sniffles developed it few years ago after a fight with a stray. Nobody knows. Either way they are positive and basically there is nothing that can be done about that.

Tabby is in excellent health.
Podge is doing better than he ever was even with the Cat Flu.
So basically we just carry on as normal until the day comes that their quality of life deteriorates.

They gave me a load of multivitamins in powder format. It's meant to do for like few months! Think they felt sorry for me after all I'd been through this weekend. They are amazing vets the nicest on the planet can't thank them enough for all they do for me.

So the multivitamins will be a boost for them both over the next few months. Really believed Tabby didn't have it though.

Jaysus. Podge is a trooper. He has Cat Flu and FIV and still bouncing about. Maybe he is simply a carrier of it. I don't know.

Anyway. Just want to thank everyone for their support and best wishes x
All we do now is carry on as normal until their time comes whenever that may be. Going to keep close eye on Tabby now after this dental and make sure he doesn't develop an infection or get it seen to straight away. Simple infection could have him dead without few days

BUT I'm positive they will have another few happy years left in them. I'll try and make sure of that