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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mikey6990" data-source="post: 518452" data-attributes="member: 6815">Liquide,First, I am deeply sorry.  I understand your situation.  When my wife and I got married, the week after we got home from our honeymoon we went to get our "married cat".  We went to the local humane society and looked at the kittens.  Then my wife saw a lone adult calico in a cage by herself.  She reached up to put her hand near the cage and the cat put her head up to the cage and tried to get her head into my wife's hand.  We took Callie home that day.A year and a half later, Callie started to limp a little and her back near her tail was extremely tender.  We took her to our vet (who happens to be a nationally recognized cat expert).  After a lot of tests, she found a tumor in Callie's spine.  We were referred to a surgical expert who confirmed the diagnosis and said there was nothing we could really do.Our vet gave us some medicine to help the inflamation and we took Callie home.  I remember opening her cage (she was too groggy from the sedatives she got at the vet) and I just laid down in the floor and slept with her the whole day.Twelve years later, Callie was alive and doing fine.  We got her three siblings, two cats and a dog, that she ruled over as queen.  She was still sensitive if you sqeezed her back or held her wrong and she got stiff in cold weather, but she was happy and we always kept a heater for her to lay in front of when she got cold.Three weeks ago, she started to hide more to sleep under furniture and such.  She started losing weight.  Then she start to cry a lot.  We called the vet at midnight one night when Callie's symptoms became really bad.  The vet thought she had experienced a series of strokes and was now mostly blind a disoriented.  She offered to come in that night, but we decided to wait.I took Callie in the next morning.  As the vet examined her, my heart was aching.  Callie by this time was mostly blind, dehydrated, and could not regulate her body temperature.  The vet has always offered to come to our home, but we decided since we were at the vet, Callie hated car rides, and she was so confused due to her condition that we would go ahead and have her put to sleep there.I held her as the vet administered the two drugs and said goodbye to my baby.  It is a horrible thing to have to do, but I know I did the right thing.My advice...If Linus is in terminal pain, make the tough decision and take the vet's advice.If Linus is confused/scared/etc because he cannot fully interact and sense his surroundings, take the vet's advice.  This was the worst part seeing Callie so confused and scared in her own home.If Linus cannot enjoy HIS life, take the vet's advice.  That is totally your call.  Many animals adjust to challenging circumstances.  Some don't.  Here I can not offer much help.  Only you know Linus well enough to judge his quality of life.I am truely sorry.  Mike</blockquote>

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