Kuna Tuna

Well we had to put our beautiful orange tabby Kuna down yesterday. He had been getting thinner for the last little while but we had attributed that to the fact that it was summer time. But over the last week he really wasn't looking all that great and over the weekend he went downhill quite quickly. He has had this obsession with eating plastic bags over the years and when he was 10 months old he actually had surgery (we thought he had a blockage) but it turned out to be a very expensive 'air exchange' instead. We had decided at that point that he had used up the entire vet fund and that all the cats were SOL now because of him. This wasn't really true of course. Perhaps that was why I didn't take him to the vet sooner though and I'm wishing that I had. But we went yesterday and were ready to give it a shot and see if the fluids would help make him feel better before doing any x-rays or any of that kind of thing. You know how vets work, everything is SO expensive. I wouldn't have been able to live with myself though if we didn't at least try. One thing that I was adamant about was getting blood work done. Then that way we could find out if there was any underlying conditions going on. Well sure enough, there was. His kidney's were deteriorating and he was slowly dying. Eventually he would go on his own, but we couldn't let him suffer like that. So we had an amazing cuddle with lots of pets and kisses and my hubby even gave him some goodbye from his feline brother and sister at home with a lick on the head and a bite of his neck - it may seem silly but it pretty much broke my heart right there. It was really hard to say goodbye to him, but it was what needed to be done. I still can't believe he's gone. He was only 3 years old.
So rest in peace Kuna. You were an amazing kitty and you will be forever missed.

Love you
xoxo