Also to anyone who's lost a beloved pet I can relate at the absolute and utter heartbreak. I had two female kitties. Both adoptees.
The first fought disease she was most likely born with (feline aids) until she was 8 years old and finally lost her battle. The previous vet who took over our retired vets practice, tried to charge us charged hundreds and claimed she had no feline aids virus and wanted to do all sorts of tests which ran in the hundreds.
We took her to another vet for second opinion where his test showed us yes she had a disease but it was FLV (feline leukemia) and she had been fighting it years and it had finally taken over and was affecting all her organs and she was in pain.
We made the painful decision to put her to sleep in Jan 19. Then in November 19 my other kitty who was 5 suddenly gained a hard mass on her shoulder. Vet took the lump out and said testing would be 340+ but he said it was in his opinion most likely cancer of the lymph nodes. She came home after surgery and seemed to be her old self again. Two weeks passed and one day I picked her up.and my usually cuddly easygoing bestie who constantly slept besides me and was like an overgrown kitten who I adored with all my heart, had a hard long lump under her tummy and hind leg. Lat 3years later even though in 2020 my girls finally convinced me to let them get a new kitty whom I've paid a few hundred in vet bills for so far. The obvious ones -vaccines, neutering,.parasite treatment -and then when he was bitten by another cat so deep it looked like he'd ben shot with a pellet gun he needed treatment that cost 400eur but these animals are FAMILY and if it was your kid you'd do anything for them. I feel like that about my kitties
MILO(ginger), SCRAPPY (grey tabby) she was a cantankerous very independent kitty but our first adopted cat loved to bits and last two are SCOUT (calico tabby) my furry bestie, such a loving kitty, rarely left my side especially when I would be in severe pain in bed. Her death really hit me very hard after Scrappys death 11 mths previous)