ORIGINAL: DD696
I will share pics of Sweet Sam sometime in the future. Right now I am just overwhelmed at doing everything possible and still watching Sam waste away. He has eaten pretty much nothing in 6 days now. He turns away from food and water. Sam loved to drink from water running from a faucet, now that has no appeal to him. At treat time, Sam was first in line. Now he doesn't come, altho I did get him to eat part of a treat today. I don't think there is much else to do but to be ready to put Sweet Sam in the ground next to TMT, otherwise know as Too Much Trouble - but, he never was.
I have 5 other cats and 1 part time outside cat that comes in for chow and some loving. The trouble is, some cats are just special and you deeply bond with them. When it is time for them to go it is like all life ends. It is a bad year to say goodbye to Sam. He purrs and loves my attention. His eyes are alert but his body is wasting away.
He will buried next to TMT, and I will go out every day for a very long time and give him a treat, just as I did for Too Much Trouble.
My cat Archie had kidney failure. It happens to old cats. He was wasting away so we started feeding him via syringe. Vet said try the stinkiest food you can find. That did the trick. He still died after several months but they were good months. He was 16 years and 7 months.
; Julia Child
