tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9052855468880132303.post3701296343803550764..comments2023-10-25T10:24:38.173+02:00Comments on Wild roses and blackberries: Goodbye, SötisManekihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13362626785474144154noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9052855468880132303.post-19427755996738841062012-07-27T17:43:48.410+02:002012-07-27T17:43:48.410+02:00Thanks for your comments. It feels like everthing ...Thanks for your comments. It feels like everthing happened so fast. One second he was happy and active, the other second he was on the vet's table waiting for that awful injection. Just so unfair, so cruel.<br /><br />The fact that the front half was fine (more or less -- you can see in the pics that he wasn't feeling great after the injury) also made it so hard. It was just his bottom half that didn't work. For a moment I felt "ok, can't we just leave his behind and keep the rest, the unharmed, young and strong part of him all alive and well? Why let the hind legs and lower back kill all of him?" Afterwards, images from Animal Planet and those cats and dogs in special "wheelchairs" kept playing in front of my eyes and made me question the decision. Would it not in someway, somehow haven been possible to let him live? Handicapped and in constant need of attention and wheelchair, but perhaps still with a will to live and enjoy life. Another part of me jusified it: there's a difference between paralyzed and paralyzed. The simple cases and the complicated. Could he even control his own bladder anymore? Could he enjoy life confined to a bed or wheely contraption? Could he even move around freely the way we live with little floor space, staircases etc. With the other cats free to do what they want, go were they want when they want, would he not in one way or another suffer? Why question the vet?<br /><br />I still think about how the injury happened. We truly have no idea. Fell out the window (under my sister's window there's another slightly open window and it would probably be possible to injury yourself if slamming into it and then tumble down on the ground), but that would mean he had to get back indoors on his own. Jump up through a window several dm off the ground -- the kittens just recently got big enough to manage that jump -- then down on the floor via an old sofa, up a long staircase and into the bedroom. Would a kitten with a broken leg and spinal injury be able to do that? And wouldn't there be at least a minute trace of the fall under one of the three windows? Or did he fall down the stairs? Kittens have done that before, but never broken anything in the fall. Something heavy fell on him indoors? But we haven't really found anything that has been pushed down from the tables or shelves. And what would be so heavy it could cause such horrible injuries? <br /><br />We will never know how it happened, but oh how I wish it would've happened when we were there. When we could've had a chance to prevent it. When we could've picked him up saying "be careful there", put him down and he would've continued to play and run around. Not just that day but still today and many days to come. Leaving us thankfully never knowing just how bad it all could've ended if it'd happened when we weren't there.Manekihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13362626785474144154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9052855468880132303.post-28147543081114075922012-07-27T17:41:37.012+02:002012-07-27T17:41:37.012+02:00I'm so sorry to read fhe sad news about your k...I'm so sorry to read fhe sad news about your kitten. I'm not a vet, but as a physician I know that there was nothing to do to help your kitten. Don't blame yourself. It's easy to tell from your words that you loved him dearly. I guess your feeling of not having been so happy for him at the beginning was a feeling caused by the situation when you accidentally got so many cats, not the kitten himself.<br /><br />Your kitten had a short, but happy life. Unfortunately we are not always able to protect our felines from encountering risks and dangers. To be adventurous is a part of their life. Hugs to you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9052855468880132303.post-48521617245737611892012-07-26T14:22:33.547+02:002012-07-26T14:22:33.547+02:00I am so sorry for your loss. ((hugs))I am so sorry for your loss. ((hugs))Courtney Breulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03754678418586869915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9052855468880132303.post-21178388820905167482012-07-26T02:39:39.388+02:002012-07-26T02:39:39.388+02:00Oh, I am so, so sorry to learn of the loss of your...Oh, I am so, so sorry to learn of the loss of your kitten. I can tell from your post and the words from your heart that you loved him very much. I am sure he had a very happy life right up until his injury cut it too short.Torque Storyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08905279885337380201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9052855468880132303.post-75905646783155180822012-07-25T20:16:09.224+02:002012-07-25T20:16:09.224+02:00Dear Maneki, I'm so sorry to hear about what ...Dear Maneki, I'm so sorry to hear about what happened to your Sötis and that you lost him. RIP little Sötis. And yes, I'm sure that there is Kitty Heaven for all cats and kittens. All my best, MilkaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com