There is always something new to experience in life. Today, two vets showed up at our house to administer the drugs that would send our old cat Luigi on his next “journey”, as they put it. We knew his life would be over soon, as cancer had ravaged him. He had a leg removed in May but the disease returned and in the past two weeks, a lump the size of a tennis ball formed on his shoulder.
We assumed Luigi’s life would end at the vet clinic but they offered to come to our house and we took them up on it. Luigi always became very agitated when we took him to the vet. So in the two women came and downstairs to a bed on which he spent a lot of his days. As our son cradled him in his arms, the needles went in, the process was explained to us, and in no time at all, Luigi had slipped away. We were upset but being part of the procedure, and seeing the ease with which our kitty breathed his last, was a great comfort to us.
The vets were very caring and didn’t judge us for being so devastated at the loss of our little guy. For 14 years, he gave us so much, and we wish we could have had him around longer, but we were told 14 is a pretty good run for a cat. To keep him longer would have not been doing him any kindness.
©2019 Jim Hagarty
