Well, I do too...he’s been a great cat. He’s probably between 12-15, but still had a lot of life in him. But if he doesn’t some home, I’ll think of it as for the best, since moving him to a new place, and keeping him in might not have set well with him.
Sorry abt. your cat. I have one I am going to put down that I raised from a kitten. He’s 10 and it’s sad. I wish you luck on getting the dog taken care of.
A month ago we got a "Paso Fino" at a sale. Hal just wanted a horse with a gait like that to cross with a Tenn. Walker to get a smaller smooth gaited horse. We waited almost a month and she didn't come in season (all the others did), so we took her to get an ultra sound to see if she was already bred (she's mud fat) or when she would be in. He told us she would breed in 2 or 3 days.
In the meantime Hal had been all over looking for the stud he wanted to use and finally settled on a white Racking horse at some people's barn 20 miles or so from us. He took me and showed him to me and they let him ride him and he was really smooth and pretty fast.
Anyway, we took her Monday, they teased her and she stood for him and that's done. So that means we have 2 silent mares now instead of one. While we were there they rode a couple more horses and told me they would look at mine and see what they thought abt. getting her to gait smoother. So........
After I rode her for 3 hrs. Wed. and she almost jarred my guts out, I took them up on it. We took her last night and they watched me ride her and told me what needed to be done. She really was smoother there because it's a dirt floor in the barn (an old chicken house) and I had ridden on gravel rodes and pavement that morning, but she's never been smooth like Daisy is. I guess since I've been having to ride Daisy while Faith was recuperating I got spoiled. Anyway, she didn't have enough foot to do what they recommend so they said wait till it grows out and try. OKAY, that's that.
Hal took Sassy to get reshod by the guy that usually does them this morning. He called me at work and said the guy that watched me ride her in his barn went to the place where the guy that shoes her eats breakfast this morning and told him the whole story. When Hal showed up at his barn a little while later he told him to go get Faith and he would FIX her. (Another 40 mile trip.) He said he didn't know what was going on and he never has time to watch anyone ride before he shoe's them anymore. Hal called me and asked if it was OK with me and I said yes, so he did. He called back when he got through and said he built her 2 front feet. He described what he did, but I will have to see it when I get home. Hal said it looked really good and we would ride after work and see if it helped. He told Hal if she wasn't fixed he was going to make his wife answer the phone when I called him tonight. We'll see. Hal said he wasn't mad because I got someone else to look at her. I just had no clue that he would go and talk to our farrier abt. her. He also said she was a nice, pretty, very flashy horse. Made me feel good.