18yr sweet Peaches passed last night, unexpectedly
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2021 2:57 pm
I am at a loss right now, I am not doing well at all..... I have had my sweet girl for 18yrs now, I found her at 2 weeks old, she didn't have a momma so I became her momma. I helped her with everything, potty, cleanings, feedings, all the things and she became the queen of this castle. Sure, she was a female orange tabby with a spit fire attitude, she didn't like a lot of people, but she LOVED and adored me. I was the one person in this house that she would follow around, sleep with, love on, "talk to", play with, and get super finicky with. She loved to sleep on my side of the bed, it had to be my side of the bed, and that was where she was last night. The last few months I noticed a change in her, she wasn't grooming herself the way she used to, so her beautiful longer peach colored fur was getting matted and falling out all over. She had started to meow very loudly at night over the last few weeks, after much research from the sounds of it she was losing her eye sight and hearing. Otherwise, she was eating regularly, jumping regularly, she was not the biggest player (however she hadn't been for a while), but other than the prior everything else was normal until last night. I had just got done giving her all sorts of lovin (she seemed to have gotten way more lovable in the recent months with me too, she followed me EVERYWHERE). She was laying on her usual spot on my bed as I put my clothes away, my dog Zeke was laying beside her, she got up and rubbed her nose on his (which was unusual) I started kissing her nose, loved on her and took some pics. Little did I know that 30 mins later I was going to lose her. I walked out of the room, Zeke followed me as usual, when I came back he jumped up and was licking Peaches faces, I was startled at 1st because he usually plays to rough with her, so I thought he was trying to play til I noticed her body. Her entire body was stiffening, her head tilted up and and I ran to her, when I got her she went limp, her pupils were huge, I put my hand around her neck and her head just hung there. All of a sudden she gasp 1 more gulp and then nothing again, she was gone, I sat with her wrapped in the blanket for the next hour crying and wondering what happened, begging her to wake up. I don't know what happened, it came out of nowhere, she was fine and then she wasn't. My heart is broke into a million pieces, we had to wrap her in a blanket and put her in an air tight box til this morning so we can take her to be cremated because the vet wasn't open and that about KILLED me. Ugh IDK what or how to feel but I am broken and shattered and this pain to go away!!!! I will always miss my Peaches, my sweet sweet Peaches!!!