Poor Bozo :(
It was the same with Purrcival. When he was 10, the vet operated to remove a sarcoma from his underside. It wasn’t internal. Three years later, when Purrcy started throwing up again, we took him to the vet, and the vet identified a very aggressive cancerous growth in his stomach. There was nothing we could do for him. I tried keeping him comfortable by taking him in for DepoMedrol shots every two weeks, then every week...and toward the end, they were giving him NO relief at all. He couldn’t/wouldn’t eat, stopped grooming himself, didn’t even want to watch the birds and the squirrels, and stopped sleeping with us at night, preferring to stay under a table in the sunroom all the time. He started throwing up blood, and throwing up right after he ate. We decided it was time (and maybe even past time). I took him to the vet’s for the euthanasia and stayed with him. After the necropsy, the vet told me that the growth had taken over Purrcy’s entire stomach and had invaded the duodenum. He had tumors in his abdomen, and even in his kidneys. I think I DID wait too long, but he had been with us since he was 6 months old. It was so hard to let him go.
You don’t even want to hear the Bozo story. Someone, kidnapped him, starved him, put a wire aroud his neck until it was infested with maggots, and blinded him. Then, they let him go and somehow he made it home. I found him in my garage, called the police . The police, of course said that was nothing they could do about this crime....if I ever find out who did it.....