u/Cat_Dad_101

Luna's the one eyed girl in the back, Jiji is her younger adopted sister that was got at the same time. She's had CKD for 2 years and was largely symptom free until a few weeks ago. She's been so brave, but I've put her through enough vet visits and needles and it's time for her to rest.

We got Luna when she was 8 years old. Apparently her original owner passed away and someone let her outside. She was out on her own for a couple months, declawed and defenseless. When found she had eye infections which is how she lost the one.

She was a project cat, and needed a lot of patience and calmness to gain her trust. It took 3 months before she would stop spending most of the day hiding under the bed. This first time she put her paws on my leg in a half-lap sit was 3 years later, and made me cry with happiness.

She was terrified of thunder. When she heard it, she'd come to me and cry for me to follow her to the bed where I'd protect her with cuddles.

My wife passed away 2 years ago from cancer, and after that Luna became very affectionate. She started fully sitting in my lap. Also she started sleeping on my chest or on my pillow above my head. Working from home, she'd often come up to me and demand I come cuddle her in the bed.

When it was feeding time, I opened the wet food can she got her sample, where I'd let her lick the lid. It became part of our routine everyday.

Her sister Jiji is very attached to her, always follows her around and wanted to be nearby. When Luna was at the vets yesterday, she sat staring at the cat bed Luna's been staying in. I'm most worried for her. Doing the euthanasia at home, I hope she'll understand Luna's gone and she won't be wandering the house looking for her.

It's been a very hard journey the last couple of weeks, but I'm glad I can give Luna a peaceful exit before she fully crashes.

I love you my sweet girl. Mama will be waiting for you, and I'll see you soon.

My ugly cry loop song for today:
https://youtu.be/71zl0hIOPAw?si=7XC9VKuhcqQBiKms

I've posted a couple times about her problems over the last two weeks, and it's time to let her rest without more stress and discomfort. Luna's the one eyed girl in the back, Jiji is her younger adopted sister that was got at the same time.

We got Luna when she was 8 years old. Apparently her original owner passed away and someone let her outside. She was out on her own for a couple months, declawed and defenseless. When found she had eye infections which is how she lost the one.

She was a project cat, and needed a lot of patience and calmness to gain her trust. It took 3 months before she would stop spending most of the day hiding under the bed. This first time she put her paws on my leg in a half-lap sit was 3 years later, and made me cry with happiness.

She was terrified of thunder. When she heard it, she'd come to me and cry for me to follow her to the bed where I'd protect her with cuddles.

My wife passed away 2 years ago from cancer, and after that Luna became very affectionate. She started fully sitting in my lap. Also she started sleeping on my chest or on my pillow above my head. Working from home, she'd often come up to me and demand I come cuddle her in the bed.

When it was feeding time, I opened the wet food can she got her sample, where I'd let her lick the lid. It became part of our routine everyday.

Her sister Jiji is very attached to her, always follows her around and wanted to be nearby. When Luna was at the vets yesterday, she sat staring at the cat bed Luna's been staying in. I'm most worried for her. Doing the euthanasia at home, I hope she'll understand Luna's gone and she won't be wandering the house looking for her.

It's been a very hard journey the last couple of weeks, but I'm glad I can give Luna a peaceful exit before she fully crashes.

I love you my sweet girl. Mama will be waiting for you, and I'll see you soon.

Edit: She's now gone. Purring all the way to the end. My brave, sweet, pretty girl.

Luna's been stage 2/3 for almost 2 years now with almost no problems. Unfortunately, the last two weeks she's barely been eating and has been throwing up yellow bile when her stomach is empty.

I've taken her to the vet and we've given her IV fluids followed by subq fluids at home every other day. She's taking Cerenia and Mirataz transdermal every day. We've also tried zofran and Pepcid AC.

She drinks water fine, but her food she'll just take a lick or bite and walk away. I've tried giving every possible food and the only thing she seemed to actually go back for was when I blended up tuna and water for her. Obviously that's not ideal with the mercury/salt, and even that I don't think provides enough calories.

I'm struggling whether it's time to let her go. She's still acting fairly normal otherwise. She jumps up on the window perch to look outside (pic from today) , sits in my lap, sleeps with me at night. But she's definitely losing weight. The idea of her slowly starving to death is awful, but I'm not sure I can go through with it while she's still so loving and sweet and herself. Is there any hope that she can start eating again soon or should I let her go before things really start going downhill?

Ancient Tomb was in the first pack. Would've been happy with just that, but the rest turned out pretty good!

She's been stage 2/low 3 for over a year now and been doing well. Last week I noticed she started hiding upstairs most of the day, not eating as much and vomiting every day.

I took her into the vet and bloodwork showed her creatine was actually lower than in December (3.2 to 2.9), but her SDMA had increased. Also that she was slightly anemic but the vet said that could also be due to her not eating much.

She got fluids, cerenia and mirataz and she's actually not been hiding and hasn't thrown up since Thursday, but she's still not eating very much. She was down 1 full pound since December and I'm very worried I'll have to make a hard decision if I can't get her to start eating more soon.

At a loss of what else to try. I've tried fortiflora and some other enticer toppers to see if that would help, along with about 8 different kinds of food.