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Thank you for sharing your experience. I am sorry for your loss and the guilt you feel also, it really is horrible isn't it. It sounds like you followed the vets advice which is what would have been the best thing to do at the time, they are the professionals, so try not to be too hard on...

Thank you, I'm glad I found the site, reading people's advice and experience has helped!

Thank you for taking the time to write that. I appreciate your advice. I will definitely read over this again.

Thank you for sharing your experience I am sorry for your loss. I had no idea about the cancer before we saw rapid detoriation. And now in hindsight I can see I missed signs which i should have picked up and acted on which is hard.

Thank you for sharing and the reminder to think about the things I did provide.

Oh I can imagine that must be hard. As I don't have any other cats I completely avoid the pet aisles as I would find it upsetting too! Thank you for sharing that. I think journaling sounds like a good idea and i think I will try it myself. Writing down the good things may help with me not...

Thank you for your kind words. It is appreciated.

You're right! Oh how much easier it would be if they could talk. He completely refused help - vets, eye drops etc. I can't tell you terrified he was of the vets. It was always an awful, awful experience and I did worry about the long term stress on him. I guess this may have contributed to me...

Thank you, I appreciate you sharing your experiences. You're right, we don't know everything and I have learnt now. But I can't help but regretting that I didn't learn sooner. It's still confusing to me why I didn't look into things more/ question signs and behaviours more. I just didn't see it...

Thank you Wenda. His name was Lotto. I had him since I was around 9 years old so I don't really remember him ever not being in my life - From walking with me to school to jumping up as soon as I got back from work to welcome me home!

Thank you for your message. Just looking back I can see so clearly now that I could have done so much more and so much better for him. It's confusing to understand how I didn't see it at the time.

Thank you Antonio. I'm sorry to hear about your cat. From what you say it seems like you did nothing wrong either. You trusted professionals as we are often told to do.

Thank you. I hope that is easier to think about the good times without the bad and feelings of guilt soon.

Hi all, A few months ago my 19 year old cat was put to sleep after he rapidly deteriorated with cancer over the course of a few weeks. The diagnosis from the vet and the decision to put him to sleep happened extremely fast. As he was absolutely petrified of the vets, we called the vets out to...