QUALITY OF LIFE
There's a time with our pets when we go FROM doing anything and everything we can to keep our pets healthy TO maintaining quality of life...
Our pet is Blue, a 19 1/2 year old female blue russian cat that has been for the most part healthy for her entire life (since I adopted her and her sister (passed away April 2003) when they were both only 4 months old.
The hard part for most of us is realizing when maintaining quality of life supercedes anything else and what makes it even harder is Blue has been a part of the family all these years.
Right now she has a few small problems but nothing major...she can still eat, drink, use the litter box and most importantly, still takes time to clean herself...she lost her teeth at 15 but still loves her hard food, touch of diabetes I'm sure, and hearing is all but gone but still seeks us out or should I say seeks out our laps...
I know we are on borrowed time (heck we have been on borrowed time for the past 8 1/2 years considering how long most cats live) and we will do what we can to maintain her quality of life but once that is gone we will have to male the "decison", but we can only hope the 19 1/2 years since she "adopted" us will last just a few more years...
Thanks for listening...
Our pet is Blue, a 19 1/2 year old female blue russian cat that has been for the most part healthy for her entire life (since I adopted her and her sister (passed away April 2003) when they were both only 4 months old.
The hard part for most of us is realizing when maintaining quality of life supercedes anything else and what makes it even harder is Blue has been a part of the family all these years.
Right now she has a few small problems but nothing major...she can still eat, drink, use the litter box and most importantly, still takes time to clean herself...she lost her teeth at 15 but still loves her hard food, touch of diabetes I'm sure, and hearing is all but gone but still seeks us out or should I say seeks out our laps...
I know we are on borrowed time (heck we have been on borrowed time for the past 8 1/2 years considering how long most cats live) and we will do what we can to maintain her quality of life but once that is gone we will have to male the "decison", but we can only hope the 19 1/2 years since she "adopted" us will last just a few more years...
Thanks for listening...
