Around 11 pm last night I heard Josh, our cat, meowing. He usually hangs out on the bed with us at night but he wasn't there last night. I could not find him. I thought maybe one of the kids shut him in a closet or something. The meowing woke Wyatt up and he told me where the cat was - under Dante's bed. I looked under the bed and there was Josh, laying on his side, panting and meowing that awful painful sounding meow. I pulled him out from under the bed and tried to get him to stand but he just slumped back down.
I took him to the emergency vet. His temp was 92 - normal temp is 100 - 102. His glucose was high and he needed to be on oxygen. They did x-rays and found abnormal tissue in his lungs - basically he had cancer. This was a shock to me - I had no idea he was sick. I had them euthanize him. It's been a long time since I was on the owner side of euthanasia - as a vet tech I sort of became desensitized to euthanasia but as an owner - wow, I just sobbed.
He loved hanging out in the tub - especially when the water would drip from the faucet. He would have been in heaven had we had one of those walk in tubs, lol. Needless to say, he could usually be found somewhere in the bathroom :]R.I.P. Joshua kitty
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