Our blind and deaf girl Angel died tonight. She had just been diagnosed with kidney failure only a few weeks ago, but fluid therapy and medications were not enough. Yesterday evening she didn’t want to eat any food, and the same again with breakfast today. Angel suddenly seemed kind of lost and vacant. This afternoon I talked with our specialist who had been treating her, Dr. Dave Bostwick, and he was going to see Angel tomorrow morning to determine if something other than kidney failure was now involved. Her downward spiral had been dramatic.
Not long after I got off the phone with Dave, Kathryn rushed in from the cat house and said, "You’d better come look at Angel."
Angel was lying on her side, unresponsive, her body cold to the touch. Very cold. She was breathing — barely — but that was about all. She was very still, with only an occasional twitching of her head, the kind of involuntary reflex that comes at the very end. I knew we had already lost her. By the time Kathryn got her to the emergency clinic, Angel had only a blink reflex left. Otherwise she was motionless. The vet at the clinic put her to sleep.
This beautiful white cat with the stunning green eyes was gone. She had spent her life completely blind and deaf, in a dark and silent world that I can’t even imagine. For her, smell and touch were awesome senses that told her everything she knew. What her life was like before she came here we’ll never know. We’re just glad we were able to give Angel her final couple of years in a place where she was treasured.
You can read Angel’s original story here.
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