Cat MaGi is very sick and can barely walk

MaGi can barely walk anymore as she stumbles. We pretty much had made up our mind that it's almost time to bring her for euthanasia in 24 to 48 hours. Even we did not bring MaGi home when she was young (14 years+) and she is our 6th cat to be euthanized, it's still a very difficult and heart-broken decision. 8/10/2009

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Cat
• MaGi
• seriously
• sick
• kidney
• disease
• lymphoma
• euthanasia

[cfud]

@sooperfukker One of the promises my partner and I have made is - no more pets after all the cats are gone. You're right that having a pet would require the extra miles of care of them and I always believe having a pet is a lifetime committment. To some extent, our cats have various diseases, but at least they've had happy lives and relatively good longevity for their breeds.

[cfud]

@sooperfukker I agree with you mostly, but unfortunately we found out some of our cats' problems much later. I wish we knew more when we were forced to inherit all the cats (from a family member who brought all the cats home then married away) when we were much younger (15+ years ago for this litter.) Like you said, many people just don't treat their pets appropriately because they don't even know how to treat themselves the correct way!

[sooperfukker]

@sooperfukker

People don't treat their pets cleverly today.

They give them unhealthy food, causing them long term metabolism problems.

They limit their movement workload by 90%, preventing the animals' bodies from upholding proper functionality.

They keep them largely unexposed from the outer world and let the animals develop an inferior immune system and so on...

And then people start to wonder why animals get the same common diseases as humans in western nations do... that's stupid :-ß

[sooperfukker]

@cfud

I used to have or take care of a couple of different animals when i was young (dog,small tortoises, bearded dragons,cats,horses) but I can't afford to spend the required amount of time anymore.

Today it seems clear to me that you have to go extra miles and miles if you want want to keep sensitive animals healthy in a captive surrounding, especially when the surrounding limits the animal's natural behaviour schemes as harshly as keeping it as a pet at home.

[cfud]

@sooperfukker We did find out there were some factors that contributed to some cats' disease - kidney failure. We used to buy well water from a local farm but found it's quite dirty (stain left in water cooler) after our 2nd cat with kidney failure. So we triple-filtered our water since then AND boil it. Combine with giving them low sodium dry foods, that saved/extended some other cats from having kidney issues. You're right, animals are way more sensitive than humans. Do you have cats yourself?

[sooperfukker]

@cfud

ah ok, i was starting to wonder if something in the house or the surrounding was maybe causing this.

you never know if there is any ground based pollution or poisoning or some fungus in the house which can rather quickly kill small animals but which aren't easily recognised by humans.

[cfud]

@sooperfukker - good point. After many expensive visits to our vet, we finally found out (piece by piece) that there are several reasons our cats died one after another with similar diseases (from lymphoma to heart to kidney failure.) First is age, all of them range from 14-16 years old. 2nd is heredity as the cats shown in my videos came from the same litter (this video shows the mom.) 3rd is their breed (Maine Coon + domestic longhair). 4th is foods, I guess. We've had all of them for 15+yrs

[sooperfukker]

why exactly do so many of your cats have to killed ? is there anything wrong with your hospitality or were they sick in the first place before they came to you ?