20 April 2006
GoofyKat passed over the Rainbow Bridge, 19 Apr 2006 at 2:30pm.
He crashed hard on Monday. He refused to eat or drink. He couldn't walk anymore. He had been hiding. And when he did come out, he would not move, raise his head or anything. We knew it was time. We tried everything that night to bring him back. We've had him refuse to eat before and brought him back with canned tuna, salmon and chicken. But not this time. This time he refused all the good stuff. We knew. We went to go take him in to end his suffering, but it was after hours and it was an additional $100. Unfortunately, we couldn't afford this so we tried to make him as comfortable as possible on Monday night. We stayed up with him most of the night. Anthony scraped off some morphine from one of his pills, not too much, but a little, and fed it to him. We had to break the needle off his insulin needles to force water in his mouth. He was so dehydrated. But, we really think the little bit of morphine helped him through the night. I had to go to work, which was really hard being up most of the night. I had a hard time driving. DH, took a nap. And then, later, he took GoofyKat to our Vet, who agreed it was time.
When I came home from work, there Anthony sat on the couch, next to the cat carrier. GoofyKat was inside, wrapped in his quilt I made him when he was a kitten. He will be buried in that too. It is so sad. We had him for 16.5 years. He was our first baby. And Joshua doesn't understand. How can you expect a 3 year old to understand?! Though, he does try to comfort us. The words out of his mouth last night were amazing. "It's ok. He's safe with God now".