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Old 08-24-2010
Annie55 Annie55 is offline
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old cat wanders in

Hi everyone,
A month or so ago an old cat joined our cats, really scruffy but a nice personality so it began eating with the other 3, we noticed it had a hard time eating, checked it's teeth and it has none on the bottom at all, so we gave it milk and soft food..anyhow it can't eat hardly at all anymore and blood runs down it's chin, so I called the animal rescue league to see if they did put them down, as age is something that we just can't fight, any how the animal rescue league does not do them anymore, so they told me to call the vet, I did and said it was not mine, and I assume lots of people do this but we helped it as any person who loves animals would and they want $100 to put her or him down..I think some one once loved this old fellow or lady and we would like to see her go quietly, but $100 is a lot of money that we don't have..Does anyone know of some place that would do this humanly? Has anyone else run into this..
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annie
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Old 08-24-2010
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Call Fundy Animal Hospital. Explain it was a stray that is ill etc. Maybe they can help
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Old 08-26-2010
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I know it is hard but the vets have to make a living too. Every person has a sad story and the vets hear them all. Sure they'd probably love to work as a charity but they have to make $ like any other business. Truth is seeing as the cat has been with you for a month now. it is considered your cat and not a stray. You could get a check up and just see what is going on.
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Old 08-30-2010
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Unfortunately I had a similar experience last month. A youngish cat was dying under my doorstep. I could not bear to see him suffer and die a slow painful looking death so I sold a couple of things to pay to have him euthanized. I cried when he was put down. Not because I was ending his life but because the person who owned him and who had promised him he would have a forever home had abandoned him to die alone and did not care how it happened to him. I held him as my vet put him to sleep and I told him what a wonderful little tom cat he was. I was only sorry I did not have the money to him put down sooner. I could ill afford the 110 dollars to get him put down but it was cheap compared to watching the poor little thing suffer. I don't know how people live with themselves. My only consolation is "what goes around comes around". We will see.

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