I wanted to post this, since so many members of this group lovingly contributed to the family HUGS. A few years ago, we lost our dog Deanna, due to seizures. We got Brady because the children and I couldn't live without a dog in our lives. Deanna came to the family after we had lost one of our cats to kidney disease. Well, now we've had Brady for 2 years and the doc was worried about a lump - that turned out to be fatty tissue that was breaking down. Today we took the remaining 2 cats in for their checkups and distemper shots. Nugget, hubby's cat, had lost almost half his body weight, so they wanted to do blood work. No problem, told them to go ahead. The doc also heard a heart murmur. Blood work came back and Nugget is in the beginning stages of kidney disease.
I called hubby at work (actually reached a coworker and had him get a message to hubby who was in a meeting). Hubby has decided that prolonging Nugget's life would be more mean than anything because of the other issues that are going on with him. We will be "talking" about it tonight, but the end result is that we will be putting Nugget to sleep....it's going to kill the kids and I don't think that hubby will be on board with getting a kitten (even though both kids REALLY want a kitten). It's not to replace Nugget, but more to try and fill the cat-shaped hole that will be left.
Shadow is still fine and dandy, though he's not happy about getting a shot today....
I'm beginning to think that we should just not have ANY pets (oh, and DS has suffered numerous fish losses in the past few weeks....no clue as to the cause as they were all doing fine, but he's now down 1 one bottom feeder and 4 tetras...he's not happy about that at all).
Larisa, needing to play with fabric to distract myself