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My parents have a beautiful 16 year old fluffy little black and white cat called Cleo. My Dad is especially attached to her, he is her "most precious baby in the whole world". I understand my Dad loves her, but this cat is in such poor condition it's heartbreaking to see. She has had a heart condition for a couple of years, but recently stared to develop renal failure. She is absolutely emaciated, just skin and bones and while she has always been a bit timid lately she seems to be more frightened and jumpy than normal, I think due to the pain you can see on her dear little face. It breaks my heart everytime I visit them and see poor little Cleo deteriorating more and more, she looks at you with these sad eyes that seem to say why am I still here I really want to go now
My Mum is excepting of the fact that her time has come and wants to do the right thing and allow her to have a peaceful death but my Dad want even consider it as a possibility. I might add my Dad is 78 and is suffering from failing memory and old age depressive symptoms so sometimes he's not quiet all there to put it as nicely as I can. I understand that with m Dad's age, mental health issues and extreme attachment to Cleo that it is very difficult for him to accept that his darling girl is dying but she is and painfully. My Mum and I have discussed the possibility of somehow sneaking Cleo out and having her suffering ended and then placing her somewhere in the garden pretending she had died in her sleep, but Mum is reluctant to go behind Dad's back like that even though she knows it would be for the best.
So what do you do in a situation like this, how do you help someone to accept that there little friend really is better off over the rainbow bridge
So what do you do in a situation like this, how do you help someone to accept that there little friend really is better off over the rainbow bridge