Yeah you know they are in good health but so old that their muscle tone and strength is not what it used to be....my 17 & 16 year olds are not allowed out at night.
They go out during the day and were great hunters at one time. Its so hard to watch them get old.
We set ourselves up and I will continue to do so forever.
We set ourselves up for that heartbreak.
In the meanwhile cannot wait to get home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That 26 year old looks really good.
I don't now much about cats.
Always thought of them a predators for vermin. And birds.
But with dogs the heartbreak is similar to losing a spouse or child.
My boy Nixon is 12 years old and doing great...I have 2 cats and he’s the Alpha. He got really sick at the end of 2012...and on New Years morning, he was all hunched over, barely breathing...the emergency vet told me he had congestive heart failure. He was prescribed people medicine...Furosimide and Benazepril....which I have painstakingly smuggled into his daily Temptations snacks (I think cats all over the world love these things)...and he’s like he never got sick...just as mean and as big a bully as he ever was...and I love him for it!! I love this kitty...he and I bonded from the first day when the lady I worked with at the time in 2003 said as she handed this skinny little gray fuzzy kitty to me...”he’ll really take to you,...he’s a real daddy’s boy”....and he was born on Father’s Day 2003...lol... I sure love my boy...I love both of my boys of course...