Bye, oily princeling

[cos]

mzrowan's boy cat, who I have lived with for nearly two years, died unexpectedly on Thursday afternoon.

The afternoon before, when he visited my room, he seemed mosly normal, and he ate some food and drank some water. That might've been the last time he ate anything. The following morning he was really sick and by the time the vet arrived he was just sitting on the closet floor shivering a little, unable to walk.

Almost as soon as the vet saw him, he said "he's in really bad shape". He weighed him (under 8 pounds, down from around 12), smelled his breath, took a blood sample, and diagnosed him with kidney failure. Until he said "this is a dying cat" I thought it would be okay :/

I went to my room to Google directions to Angell Memorial animal hospital, and by the time I got back to the kitchen, he was dead.

He's been known by many names over his lifetime, among them: You, That Other One, Testicules, Oily, Rosencrantz, Prince, black fluffball, and the Princeling ("You" and "That Other One" due to the fact that he looked so much like his sister that Rowan took a while to learn to tell them apart). Not very smart, but fortunately he left the brain cell for his sister (they shared it). His favorite pastimes were bellyrubs, sitting on paper, licking plastic bags, and liberating pasta. Now that I think of it, I haven't seen him licking plastic bags for a long time, maybe that was a warning sign. Cats are so subtle about their ailments.

Comments

[rmd.livejournal.com]

i'm so sorry.

[somechicksings.livejournal.com]

sorry to hear that; i'll think good paper & pasta thoughts in honor of him.

[eirias.livejournal.com]

*hug* I'm sorry. Losing a pet is really hard.

[points.livejournal.com]

*Hugs* :/

[solestria.livejournal.com]

*Love*

[electricube.livejournal.com]

Oh, Cos, I'm so sorry.

A bit of beauty: here is a cat-related Ode, illustrated by William Blake.

:::hugs:::

[tcb.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry..

[mattblum.livejournal.com]

I'm very sorry to hear that.

[cinnabarine.livejournal.com]

That's just terrible. I'm so sorry! :(

[estheruth.livejournal.com]

Oh, I am sorry :(

[ocschwar.livejournal.com]

Sorry, man.

[regyt.livejournal.com]

Poor kitty. He was so beautiful.

[rhysara.livejournal.com]

So sorry to hear that, wish I had something useful to say.

[gconnor.livejournal.com]

I am sorry for your loss. We had a cat who died recently, also quite unexpectedly, so I feel your pain. Hang in there, hug some other cats if you have others around.

[petra-quince.livejournal.com]

*hug*

[spiritfreedom.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry, Cos. Big hugs to you.

[msmidge.livejournal.com]

Poor little guy. And poor you. I'm so sorry.

[tempteq.livejournal.com]

Sorry Cos.

What a gorgeous boy, he'll be sadly missed.

[ratontheroad.livejournal.com]

I'm truly sorry, but as I said on the mzrowan's post, thanks for letting people know to be aware of the symptoms.

[velouria-vegas.livejournal.com]

oh sad :(
I'm sorry. You should have a pasta liberation party in his honor.

[justinjs.livejournal.com]

I am very sorry for your loss, Cos.

[melindadansky.livejournal.com]

I am soooo sorry about your kitty.

Don't feel bad that you didn't realize he was sick. They're good a pretending they're fine until they're really, really not.

[erickavan.livejournal.com]

i'm sorry for your loss.
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[struct.livejournal.com]

Poor kitty. Sniff. :`{ I had a short-haired black cat who died from the exact same cause. Somewhere in kitty heaven, there's a silly black furball in a field of plastic bags and Bertoli boxes.

[sauergeek.livejournal.com]

My condolences.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

Poor kitty. Poor you.

*hugs*

[ktpinto.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

[savyakoshka.livejournal.com]

As many before me have said, I'm so sorry for your and mzrowan's loss. Poor baby... I'm glad he had such wonderful people taking care of him during his life.

I know the sadness

[(Anonymous)]

in fact, the same week my cat red ( who look's surprisingly like your sweet kitty) also died from kidney failure. So strange that we would both have sick cats in the our closets that week.

Xenia