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mamajoanWell, I've made about a zillion phone calls now and had no luck finding a solution for Bini. The no-kill shelters all say they can't take him (or else they just don't return my calls). A couple of them gave me severe attitude about it too, so fuck them. Most were sympathetic though.
No luck with my craigslist posting either. I got one email telling me what a horrible person I am, and one sympathetic message with a few suggestions that unfortunately won't work for us.
So, with sorrow and guilt aplenty, it looks like I'll be taking Bini to be put to sleep, probably on Wednesday evening. I don't feel great about it, but it is what it is.
Bini isn't a very happy camper right now anyway. I didn't mention, but at his vet appointment last week he weighed about 12 pounds, down from 17.5 last April. That's a loss of a third of his body weight in five months! And he isn't grooming himself, isn't eating much, is drinking a ton and peeing a ton. He's hungry and thirsty but nothing he eats or drinks satisfies him, so he's pretty much just listless and unhappy. The subcutaneous fluids that the vet gave him didn't seem to perk him up much either. I feel like the rapidity of his decline says something about his ability to bounce back, the strength of his immune system...or maybe that's just me trying to make myself feel better.
Anyway...so that's the story. sigh. and now I have to figure out how to explain it all to Isaac. double sigh.
No luck with my craigslist posting either. I got one email telling me what a horrible person I am, and one sympathetic message with a few suggestions that unfortunately won't work for us.
So, with sorrow and guilt aplenty, it looks like I'll be taking Bini to be put to sleep, probably on Wednesday evening. I don't feel great about it, but it is what it is.
Bini isn't a very happy camper right now anyway. I didn't mention, but at his vet appointment last week he weighed about 12 pounds, down from 17.5 last April. That's a loss of a third of his body weight in five months! And he isn't grooming himself, isn't eating much, is drinking a ton and peeing a ton. He's hungry and thirsty but nothing he eats or drinks satisfies him, so he's pretty much just listless and unhappy. The subcutaneous fluids that the vet gave him didn't seem to perk him up much either. I feel like the rapidity of his decline says something about his ability to bounce back, the strength of his immune system...or maybe that's just me trying to make myself feel better.
Anyway...so that's the story. sigh. and now I have to figure out how to explain it all to Isaac. double sigh.
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Date: 2006-09-26 07:51 pm (UTC)i am sorry you're suffering another loss. it isn't fair.
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