<div dir="ltr">You are all wonderful to your animals! It's hard on the heart to lose them but such a beautiful thing to show them love while we can.</div><span>
</span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, May 26, 2017, 8:18 PM kat <<a href="mailto:merrykatmeows@email.com" target="_blank">merrykatmeows@email.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12.0px"><div>
<div>Bob,</div>
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<div>You are an angel to the kitties you have cared for!! This new one will know a true home with such great love, even if it is only for a short time. Thank you for all that you do.</div>
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<div>Kat (Mew Jersey)</div>
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<div style="margin:0 0 10px 0"><b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 26, 2017 at 3:01 PM<br>
<b>From:</b> "ROBERT CHAPEL" <<a href="mailto:bchapel@optonline.net" target="_blank">bchapel@optonline.net</a>><br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:felvtalk@felineleukemia.org" target="_blank">felvtalk@felineleukemia.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Felvtalk] Checking In...</div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12.0px"><div><div><div name="quote" style="margin:10px 5px 5px 10px;padding:10px 0 10px 10px;border-left:2px solid #c3d9e5;word-wrap:break-word">
<div name="quoted-content">So Glad to hear that no new " tragedies" have emerged of late and that<br>
Violet loves her catnip!.. I love the image I conjur of her eating a<br>
leaf or two and rolling in the Grass looking at you with her little head<br>
upside down.... It's been only a few weeks since I lost my buddy<br>
Magellin and though it's not with me on a daily basis I only have to<br>
encounter a surprise reminder to bring tears to my eyes ( eg... needing<br>
to put some meds for myself into a container and grabbing the nearest<br>
empty one which turned out to be Jelly's Mirtazapine container...<br>
virtually in a second the whole experience came rushing back...<br>
attempting to get him to eat..watching him lose weight... syringe<br>
feeding him... Friends ask me " why are you considering doing it<br>
again" and all I can say is.... " It feels worse to NOT help than the<br>
pain of helping"... Amani expressed a nice sentiment a few times when<br>
explaining to folks why she continues to do what she does...<br>
" If the people who care about cats don't help them it's certainly not<br>
going to be the people who _ don't_ care about them" ( yes Amani I took<br>
a measure of literary license in quoting you... Hope it's close : )<br>
On Sunday I expect to take home my new Foster... and older " Miracle"<br>
survivor of some kind of traumatic encounter( we don't know what)... He<br>
was traumatically brain injured and could barely walk when he first came<br>
to us..when I drove him to the vet I was positive they would just put<br>
him down... but he made a miraculous recovery and is now just the<br>
sweetest lap cat you could know... but still not entirely steady on his<br>
feet.. In the last few weeks he developed a tumor behind one of his<br>
eyes and it is the consensus of two vets that it is a cancer that will<br>
kill him in a few months.... ( one of the vets had a cat with the exact<br>
same situation and used a combination of Sub Cu injectable alternative<br>
meds to keep the boy alive for an extra nine months... I can't stand<br>
the idea of this sweet guy living out his remaining days on the bottom<br>
level of cages just sleeping there with little attention until he<br>
dies... He deserves to see the sun and to have someone to pet him and<br>
know a home for at least a few months.... I'm hoping that knowing in<br>
advance of taking him home that the only real surprise would be his<br>
actually surviving that I won't have the same level of sadness that my<br>
others guys engendered... Be that as it may... I'm doing it.<br>
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