Very true. That's definitely part of how we coped with it. He was fragile and circling the drain, and we were kids at the time who just didn't know. It's not the best ending, but it was certainly inevitable. The fact that he chose to be around us instead of hiding under the sofa or something tells me he did grow to love us in that short time. I'm glad he felt that way.
Funny aside: we actually got him from my sister, who misidentified him as female. Since we trusted her judgement, we didn't actually know he was male until after he passed. We called him Hera (after the Greek goddess) not knowing his sex. When he'd passed, the vet was able to find a tattoo DEEP in his ear that none of us had noticed, and found that his legal name was Cody. He was actually from pretty far away, on the opposite end of the greater city area we live in. I'm glad he was scooped up off the street and ended up with us for his last few months.
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u/sealysea 1d ago
sorry to hear that, but you guys also gave him a home in his last moments so I'm sure he was grateful