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Kat has tried so many ways to improve my walking. She has tried ankle braces, knee braces, body slings and finally a wheelchair.
The wheelchair has helped the most, but it is hard for her to lift me into it. She is so worried about me and has made me
so many great treats to encourage me to eat. She makes these great tasting meatballs which she calls Satin balls. I like those
must better than the dry kibble, which is hard for me to chew, and I sometimes get choked on those hard dry pieces. She gives
me canned food and something she calls senior food. Somedays I eat well and other days I refuse most of the food. I never
refuse bacon or ham, but she says that those are not that good for me. She only feeds me those when I refuse all other food.
I also get salmon which she says has good protein for me. She says I need protein since I am losing too much weight.
I cannot use my rear legs much at all and I scoot around on my rear inside and my back paws are getting sores, so Kat
treats them every day. She washes my back legs and rears at least twice a day and when I come in from outside. We do not use
the chair much anymore since I do not have the energy to walk very far. I refer to lay on the front porch and watch the road
and her working in the garden. Sometimes I try to scoot out to the garden but that takes so much energy- she usually sees
me and running over and helps me back inside. This colder weather is making me cold, and my teeth chatter a lot whenever
the door opens. Kat brought me a fleece lined coat which she puts on me when I'm cold. I am sleeping a lot and keeping close
to my family. I got caught under a chair the other day and almost died, but Kat moved the chair out of the room and took great
care of me and I soon recovered. That was a few months ago and she has not brought that mean chair back into the room. She
takes good care of me, and I wag my tail every time I see her walk into the room. My rear legs don't work, and I leak urine
and have almost no control of my bowels, but I can still wag my tail and smile.
This is Kat. On December the 6th at 2:27 pm Shoes peacefully crossed the rainbow bridge surrounded by her family.
The Sunday before Thanksgiving we thought she had hurt her shoulder when she was turning over but later, we think she
had a stroke. She was alert and could set up with help on Wednesday. She ate the baked giblets and turkey on Thanksgiving
but by the end of that week she started to go downhill. On Friday she actually bit my arm, it was not because she was in pain
but because she never realized who I was until I spoke. The next 5 days she drunk water, continue to eat and was alert. Then
on Wednesday she refused food but continued to drink water and be alert. On Friday she was trying to get water from her dish.
I lifted her up and she took a drink looked around and then left us. I sit with her body for the next three hours while Bill
prepared her grave. She is buried on the property looking towards the road and next to the woods near Golden Rod. Doug was
home to tell her goodbye, and Shawn was here to say bye the weekend before she passed. Chris could not come home but she heard
his voice over the phone and was alert and realized the voice. She leaves behind her human family: Bill, Kat, Shawn, Doug
and Chris and her animal family Sunny (bird), Artie(snake), Josie (hen), and the cats: Trouble, Prince, Fluffy, Butterscotch,
Little Grey, Dexter, Peaches, Mitzie, Hercules and Monkey Blue.
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