Re: Sebastian

On Fri, 5 Mar 2021 05:20:38 -0800 (PST), Tracy <[email protected]>
wrote:

>On Tuesday, August 13, 2019 at 2:08:39 PM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote:
>> I know this is an OLD post, but Sebastian is an OLD cat. :-) 
>> 
>> I'm the Tracy who first found him and then took him back when he started to get into trouble. 
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>> He's still alive, although arthritic and in the beginning stages of CKD. Up until about a year ago, he was still an avid hunter, but now he prefers to sleep. 
>> 
>> He's a very sweet boy, and lets his sister, Friday (blind cat, 15-ish years old), push him out of the way of food if we don't feed them separately. 
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>> He does not pick fights with anyone, although he will defend himself if need be. Although things can be different when there are many cats sharing a home, I have doubts about his role as an aggressor when he was living with Ted. 
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>> He had a urinary blockage about 5-6 years ago, and has been on non-dry food since then. Commercial canned, and now homemade (catinfo recipe) once he and Friday started developing diarrhea from the Friskies. 
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>> He may not be with me much longer. He's been having issues with constipation, even though he's on a high-water-content diet, and he does NOT like getting subcutaneous fluids, so I'm thinking that he's on his way downhill. I'm hoping it doesn't happen soon, but there is only so much I can do for him. 
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>> He's been the best cat I've ever had, and I'm going to miss him a lot when he's gone.
>>
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>Sebastian passed away yesterday. He'd lost a bunch of weight, was snuggling under the covers with me at night, which he never used to do, and finally was having trouble eating. He was hungry, but he had a sore in his mouth. I took him to the vet yesterday morning to see if we could do something for his mouth, and found out he had a fist-sized mass in his abdomen, just rear of his ribcage. We made the decision to let him go, and I think it was not a moment too soon for him, although it will always be too soon for me.
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>He was the best, sweetest, smartest cat I have ever had, and he lived at least 19 very good years, most of them with me.

My condolences to you.  It sounds like he was a wonderful cat; he was
your family, and you will miss him.  I am crying for you.

"Not the least hard thing to bear
When they go from us, these quiet friends, Is that they carry away
with them So many years of our lives"
        ~John Galsworthy