u/roguemorgue

I've posted him a few times here already. My Stink butt (11 yo MN) has lung cancer. we though he was doing great on chemo, but he just began developing feline lung digit syndrome, and now has cancerous tumors on his sweet little paws. While we are still doing our best to keep him with us as long as we can, the harsh reality that I will be losing him soon is setting in and im just so utterly devastated. We are trying out a different chemo that is more frequent and more aggressive. But my heart is just breaking knowing he is declining, and will continue to do so. For now, his QOL is still in tact and I can only be thankful for that.

This is so hard. I lost my partner back in 2020, and Stink is the only thing I had to keep me grounded through it all. I truly owe my life to him, I wouldn't be here today if it weren't for his companionship and love. He's my soulmate. I'm crushed. Fuck cancer.

Found this little guy outside my crematory. He appeared to have a broken hind leg as well as a hole in the top of his skull, with a bunch of "friends" inhabiting it. We took him to an emergency vet where he was promptly euthanized.

Hi friends!
I've posted my cat Stinky here before. Stinky has diffused pulmonary carcinoma. It's been a blessing and a curse, as his eye has been the only thing causing issues, and he has been doing wonderfully with chemotherapy.

He presented with a lesion on his eye on 5/14. Emergency vet visit caught the lung cancer on routine xrays. Prescribed steroid and inflammatory drops for his eye, and off to oncology specialists we went. As it turns out, the lesion on his eye was a metastatic tumor. He had it removed on 6/9.

Since his enucleation he has had a much better appetite! And that makes me so happy to see. The eye at the time of surgery had a pressure reading of 60 mmHg, so I'm sure he feels so much better without that massive headache it must've caused.

This is my first time going through anything like this with my cats. I feel so bad because he keeps bumping into everything and freezing up like he doesn't know what to do about it. I know cats tend to bounce back pretty quick after enucleation, so I wanted to reach out here to see if anyone would be open to sharing their story and what their kitty's recovery looked like! How can I make this easier on him?? How can I help him adapt?

I grabbed some gloves and moved the prairie dog out of the road so this lad would not suffer the same fate while having a meal.

Hi friends. This is not an update I'd like to be giving for a post I made about my Stinky boy the other day but I need some guidance here. He had an appointment with his vet scheduled for this upcoming Monday for the issues I described there, however he developed glaucoma presenting with a buildup of fluid in his eye paired with squinting the day after I made the post. I took him to the emergency vet today, where I am writing this post.

What we thought had been presentation of asthma on his XRays was, in reality, tumors all over. He was diagnosed with bronchogenic carcinoma. My baby has lung cancer :(.

We have an appointment made for this upcoming Monday with Oncology for further diagnostics on what kind of cancer and what treatment plan to follow. But as he is 11, we are looking at symptom management as at this point i was warned it is more than likely incurable.

As a pet cremation technician, I am often coaching people through their pet's final earthly days. I always advocate for humane euthanasia when there are more bad days than good. But I have never lost a long-term pet. I've lost many rodents with their short lifespans, but he's been my baby since he was a kitten, and since I was a little kid. He is my whole heart and soul and he is the reason I am the person I've become today. I'm finding it really hard to navigate my options here.

He only started acting off within this week. He is still eating and drinking and using the bathroom and purring like a mad man revving a motorcycle. He's the happiest cat I have ever met in my life. *When* do I know that he is ready to say goodbye? What does treatment look like? Is it worth putting him through treatment at his age? I know no one can really tell me his prognosis until he sees oncology but I just need some insight from somebody who's been through this. I don't know what to do.

Not a minor, located in CO, US, vet accessible, 11 yo neutered male.