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<blockquote data-quote="GoingNorth" data-source="post: 754878" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>Thomas is the big orange hairy sucker in that photo. He's hanging in. Has hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and should've been in congestive heart failure a year ago. Luckily he can't read his prognosis. He's still unmedicated and other than getting out of breath a bit easier, is doing pretty well. Arthritic beyond belief though and his kidneys have just started the long downhill slide. Thomas and I lost Squeaky in Oct at the age of 14. She had had oodles of kittens before being rescued at around five, which made her very high risk for mammary cancer. Despite all the boobs in the house being checked monthly, a small lump was missed. The cancer had spread extensively to her lungs by the time the primary tumor was found and she had to be euthanized for humane reasons. Because there was a degree of tension between Thomas and Squeaky despite the cute picture, and because Thomas seemed much more relaxed as a single cat, I decided that Thomas will remain a single cat for the rest of his life. We fight with keeping weight on him, and with keeping his colon working, and he is starting to show slight signs of senility, but despite that he is still my demanding, snuggly, bestest boy, and I love him dearly. I'm cool with him occasionally getting lost in the apartment in the wee hours and yelling to be rescued. Or forgetting what he's doing in the middle of doing it. In human years he's around 84, and while my 85 yr old mother is still plenty sharp, not all folks, human or otherwise, are at that age.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoingNorth, post: 754878, member: 1963"] Thomas is the big orange hairy sucker in that photo. He's hanging in. Has hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and should've been in congestive heart failure a year ago. Luckily he can't read his prognosis. He's still unmedicated and other than getting out of breath a bit easier, is doing pretty well. Arthritic beyond belief though and his kidneys have just started the long downhill slide. Thomas and I lost Squeaky in Oct at the age of 14. She had had oodles of kittens before being rescued at around five, which made her very high risk for mammary cancer. Despite all the boobs in the house being checked monthly, a small lump was missed. The cancer had spread extensively to her lungs by the time the primary tumor was found and she had to be euthanized for humane reasons. Because there was a degree of tension between Thomas and Squeaky despite the cute picture, and because Thomas seemed much more relaxed as a single cat, I decided that Thomas will remain a single cat for the rest of his life. We fight with keeping weight on him, and with keeping his colon working, and he is starting to show slight signs of senility, but despite that he is still my demanding, snuggly, bestest boy, and I love him dearly. I'm cool with him occasionally getting lost in the apartment in the wee hours and yelling to be rescued. Or forgetting what he's doing in the middle of doing it. In human years he's around 84, and while my 85 yr old mother is still plenty sharp, not all folks, human or otherwise, are at that age. [/QUOTE]
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