Cant make a decision for my cat

[Melissa]

spend loving time with all of our 4 legged friends. They deserve to be loved.

 

[Akira-R]

I went through this with my kitty (19 y/o) almost 2 years ago. She was deaf, then blind, then high blood pressure, then Kidney issues. (Did i mention hyper thyroid in there too?)

But after all was said and done, we knew when it was time. She wasn't in pain, but her appetite left, and the final straw came when she stopped drinking water.
We knew the end was near about 2 weeks before we made the call.
We had hoped to let her go in her sleep, but she held on for 2 weeks, and we called the in house vet to do the needed the day after she stopped drinking water.

We had all the plans prepped and the in house vet was already aware and ready once we called.

19 years is a long long life. You'll know when you kitty is ready to go. When they are staying around for survival vs actually enjoying their life.

 

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I never had a good sense of the attachment people have with their pets until I got my own, just two years in so far.
After19 years it will be a tough loss. All the best with whatever you decide.

 

[Sharxfan]

We wne tthrough the same thing with a pair of dogs a long time ago now. Kuma and Nala were litter mates and they grew up together never apart. We had them for 11 years then Nala got sick and after many vet visits she seemed to get better then she suddenly passed in the night. Kuma was mopey for a while and one week a little bit after Nala passed I was out of town for work and Kuma was just laying in our room not moving. My wife told her that she knew she was hanging on until I got home but if she felt it was time to go she should go and I would understand. She passed that night to join her sister. It broke my heart to not be there when she passed but when they are close like that they are like old married couples one doesn't outlast the other by too much.

Also had a rottie that was about 4 years old he wasn't acting like himself and the vet said he had cancer. They told me even if we treated him he would never go back to the way he was before the cancer and that if we were lucky he would be the same as he was right then which wasn't good he had been a very active dog but before the vet he just laid around all day. That decision to put him down killed a little bit of my soul but it was the best thing for Trouble as I didn't want to prolong his life for him to just be in misery for my sake just to have him around. I took him home for a bit so everyone could say goodbye then I took him back to the vets. I stayed in the room with him while they gave him the shot, petting him so he knew he was loved, and the last thing he saw was the person who loved him.

I hope there is a heaven for dogs and that all of my dogs are there playing together having the best time talking trash about me and what a horrible person I am because I always took that tennis ball away from them and threw it.

 

[Eldritch]

Thanks everyone for the responses. Some heartwarming, some hard to read but appreciate folks taking the time to give me ah honest response.
What makes it harder is that evevn though he's behaving different and sad, he is also behaving in part as himself. He asks for his food in the morning and evening, sometimes he eats it all, sometimes he has a couple of bites and then walks away. He still comes to my office and demands his treats like he has always done. He still sleeps with us. He's not hiding or withdrawing.

I trust you will make whatever the correct decision is.