"It's normal to want to do everything humanly possible to save a life, and that's important. Doing everything humanely possible to ease suffering is much more important, and sometimes, when the treatment is worse than the disease, and the disease is beyond any chance of a cure, that means letting go. Knowing when to let go is the most important thing of all. Give them every good day they have coming, but know when that last good day has been spent."
K. Sacksteder
Knowing When To Let Go
Like most of us, when I realized my 19 year old Shannon was approaching the end, I prayed that he would go quietly in his sleep, with no stress or pain. Sadly, that was not to be, and the night came when I had to make the terrible decision to let him go.
Kari Winters, published author and active rescuer, has written a beautiful article with all the resources you need to help you when and if that decision becomes necessary.
Dealing With Loss
You'll think you will never recover, and you'll vow to never get another cat. But the day will come when the sun will shine again, and when you least expect it, a furry creature will sidle up next to you, put a furry pad on your arm and look up into your face with eyes you will swear reflect the soul of the cat you've lost.
Before then, however, there is a natural grief process that you must go through. As for those people who tell you, "It was only a cat," pity them, for they obviously have never known the unconditional love which cats give so freely.
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