Goodbye Jack

Feed Me!

He joined our fam­ily in 2004 and will never leave it.

After a nice evening out at our book group, we got home to find our cat laz­ing about on the couch.  Only when I sat down and he started com­ing over to me; he was obvi­ously hav­ing a lot of trou­ble.  He seemed to be hav­ing trou­ble using his back legs.  They still worked but he wasn’t stand­ing up on them.  So we took him over to the ani­mal hos­pi­tal, the vet exam­ined him and told us it was related to his diabetes.

Appar­ently when the insulin didn’t work, Jack’s body started can­a­bal­iz­ing his body fat to pro­duce the sugar he needed and this effec­tively was posion­ing him.  The doc­tor told us given Jack’s age and med­ical his­tory that the kind­est thing to do would be to let him go qui­etly.  So we put him down this evening.

Good­bye Jack, I’m going to miss you stinky fuzzy butt.

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Mark is a data analyst for [REDACTED], currently residing in the Midwest. CoffeeBear is a place for him to spout off about whatever catches his fancy. In his spare time, Mark does a bit of webdev & design. To stalk him more effectively, try following him on Twitter.

2 Comments

  1. Daniel Craw­ford says:
    June 15th, 2009 at 11:52 pm

    I’m so sorry to hear this, Mark. For all his frail­ties, he was a great cat, and you two loved him well. Take the time to remem­ber the good times with him, and let your­selves mourn him. You’re right … He’s always in your hearts.

  2. Cather­ine says:
    June 16th, 2009 at 9:56 am

    I’m so very sorry. That’s a ter­ri­ble thing to come home to, and a ter­ri­bly quick win­dow to make such a deci­sion in.

    Jack was very lucky to have you and Michelle to give him a good life in his later years.

    I’ll let Bryon know when he calls from Cedar Falls.

    Cather­ine

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