I'm sorry to hear of this, I lost a young cat to leukemia years ago before they had the vaccine and another to liver cancer and I know its hard. We had to euthanize my beloved old Siamese (Weird Harold) who had been my daughters faithful companion since she was a year old when he was 14 due to kidney problems, they didn't have the good food for it at that time. My 17 year old female lived a full life but it was still hard, she had CHF and collapsed when anything startled her.

I wonder if cats have some concept of death. Ny father had his hospital bed in the living room. My old female never got onto it until the night before he died early AM. she slept on the bed for several hours that night. I saw a tv show about resident cats in nursing homes that behave similarly

Loved the 'guarding against the evil dog' photo..thats their job.

judi