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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth
maybe something got lost in the context here.the death shot was 35 bucks. i spent 70 bucks for the doctor to look at the cat, give it some shots and tell me that its bum eye is basically scar tissue. i wasted the 70 cause then we killed the cat 2 weeks later.
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well that makes a little more sense (and I thought that was a bit high for compassionate death).
my parents went through something similar when my childhood cat (he lived to be 13 years old - 1999-2012) was starting to deteriorate. He had something going on with his eye and it became infected somehow, so it was decided that they would remove it (which would have been horrifying) and when they were inserting some sort of respiration tube (after they sedated him) they found that he had a giant mass in his esophagus. It was cancer.
he'd lost a bunch of his teeth despite regular cleanings and checkups, had a lot of digestive issues but they always figured it was just due to his age.
my parents thought on it for an afternoon.
he passed away in the blanket I sent him for Christmas; my parents had him cremated.
the vet wasted a lot of my dad's money despite the fact that there was nothing they could do to help the cat but the thing that hurt the most was knowing that he wasn't happy, or healthy. My dad isn't a wealthy man by any means at all, but he didn't mourn the money that was poured into the cat.
He mourned the loss of his cat.