SteveSS
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My daughter had the day off from her vet hospital in Denver and she came down to the ranch to celebrate Father's Day and my mom's 93rd birthday. Mom asked Kylie to check on her big Maine Coon cat because it wasn't eating. She pulled the cat out from under the bed and said, "We've got to go to the vet hospital right now!" The cat was still breathing but that was about all. She suspected the cat had "thrown a clot" and was mostly paralyzed. I learned cats' blood clots go right to their spines. We got to the hospital in time but as Kylie suspected the cat was paralyzed and would never recover so it was decided to put him down right then and there to stop the pain he was most likely having.
We brought him home to bury on the ranch but it was thunderstorming as it has been doing every day since the first of May. We finally got a hole dug and bailed the water out after having to use the axe to cut a bunch of pine tree roots. I'm home and I'm muddy, wet, and cold. I just put on warm dry clothes, a hot bath comes later.
Not a great day but my daughter and my mom were both pretty strong. Just cried off and on. It was weird, later inside at the ranch the other cat came out and was enjoying being petted. I've never seen that cat act like that. She's usually very standoffish.
We brought him home to bury on the ranch but it was thunderstorming as it has been doing every day since the first of May. We finally got a hole dug and bailed the water out after having to use the axe to cut a bunch of pine tree roots. I'm home and I'm muddy, wet, and cold. I just put on warm dry clothes, a hot bath comes later.
Not a great day but my daughter and my mom were both pretty strong. Just cried off and on. It was weird, later inside at the ranch the other cat came out and was enjoying being petted. I've never seen that cat act like that. She's usually very standoffish.
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