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I found this article today, and it has helped me a lot and brought me some peace in this difficult time. I wanted to share this for anyone else who is dealing with heavy feelings of guilt too.
https://www.pet-loss.net/guilt.shtml

@booktigger -Thank you for your response. That's very true. If I had caught it sooner, there would've been so many trips to the vet (which he hated, like all cats do) for diagnosis and treatment and I don't think that would've improved his quality of life, it would've been just more stress. Instead,...

I lost my beloved 1.5 year old cat, Melvin, to cancer of the bone marrow at the beginning of december 2021. I had him since he was a 5 week old kitten, when he was found near a busy road by a person in my neighborhood. It has been so difficult because he was such a young cat and I felt like I didn't...