This post is fully dedicated to my 18 years old cat which we had to anaesthetise on January 9th 2022. So those who don’t know who i am, my ign here in royals is Hizuka, im basically a henehoe, so you can always find me there sitting on my pimp chair, im 25 years old from Israel, my parents are divorced so I currently live with my mother. Back in May 2004, my mother’s best friend called her and told her she found a stray baby cat near her house without her mother or any of her siblings nearby, my mother’s friend asked her if she wants to take her in and my mother immediately said yes, after my mom told me and my brother that we are getting a pet we got really excited and start thinking of names (we wanted at first a male cat little did we know its a female) since both me and my brother were kids who both are really obsessed with dragon ball we named her Son Goku. After sometime when we took our little precious Son Goku to the vet to get some shots the vet told us its a female (also we’ve been told that she’s around 2 months old so we decided that my mom’s birthday is also our cat birthday 8th March) me and my brother were very upset and started crying to our mom that we don’t want her because we wanted a male cat, however my mom told us that if we abandon her most likely she’ll die and we couldn’t let her go. of course after 2 weeks she’s been with us me and my brother (and of course our mother) immediately fell in love with her and we were so happy that we didn’t gave her away, by that time we had to think of a new female cat name so we decided to rename her Tula. (Hatul in hebrew literally means a male cat Hatula means a female cat so we just took the “Ha” part out of Hatula and there we go, dont judge me i was 8 years old back then and my brother was 11). Anyways after few years flew by and Tula was 8 years old (2012) i was already 16 and my brother (19) was already a soldier in the IDF, one day a group of soldiers knocked on our door and told us my brother has died in duty. Our family was (and still is) absolutely crushed by this, Tula who understood the situation always slept on my brother’s bed since that day, but also, at the same time, she always tried and succeeded on cheering me and my mom even a little bit. After that incident, i started to see Tula as my younger sister and of course my mom started to see her as her youngest daughter. Tula was more than a pet cat, even though she hated everybody except my brother, mother and me, she filled our hearts with unconditional love and always tried to make us feel better when me or my mother started to think of my brother at any point. On July 2020 Tula started to pee blood in every corner of our house, i woke up from her painful meowing and saw my mom crying and petting her as my cat is in pain, both of us thought it was the end and we started to share all of our memories with her as the vet was on his way to check on her, after some time the vet gave Tula some shot and after few hours she started to feel okay again and stopped peeing blood, both me and mother were relieved and started laughing at how we over panicked and start mourning over her even though she’s totally okay. However 2 years after that happened last Tuesday on January 4th 2022 she started to pee blood again but in a much worse way than last time it happened (also worth to mention as soon as she started to pee blood on the first time back in 2020 we switched her food to a urinary care food and she was completely fine those 2 years) me and my mom thought it would just stop after some time but it got much worse each day, we called the vet on last Sunday, January 9th 2022, he told us she has a major chronic kidney disease and also a cancerous lump that started to spread her body, the vet was surprised that she still hasn’t died from natural causes and she still hang into life in her condition. Although I’m absolutely crushed and broken-hearted right now its somewhat comforting me that she reunited with my brother over the other side, he’s now changing her water everyday and petting her and sleep with her. Rest in peace Tula 2004 - 2022 If you read the entirety of this so from the bottom of my heart, Thank you.
This is very sad, I'm so sorry I also lost my cat to kidney failure and it was a very painful experience Hope you recover from this! take care
Hi I've almost stopped playing and now am self-proclaimed FM hoe. During I was little, there was a time I raised a baby chick off of a street adoption. To raise an extremely small and fragile chick was not easy. Being young myself, I did not have information for proper care and maybe because I petted him too much, the chick passed away only a bit after a month. It happened while I was sleeping, so when I went on looking for him in the morning, my parents told me they had already buried the little thing. and they said his bottom was already starting to decay. having lost the baby chick that I cared for just a month, I cried overnight and afterwards wrote countless letters praying for him to rest in peace in heaven. I cannot fathom what it would mean for you to lost a sibling-like cat that you spent 18 years with. I, myself, raise a cat and a dog, and since they are quite old, there will come a day where I have to say goodbye. Until then, I just hope they would have a happy time with me. Reading what you wrote, I can feel how much you cherished her. I am sure she would have lived a happy life to meet you and your family, and to have spent her life with you.