[fosse]

Last week our much loved and very special cat died from eating a poisoned mouse or rat. We took her to the vet as soon as we realised there was something wrong but the indignities that she suffered were dreadful ,drips blood letting for samples, injection after injection and all for nothing . I know that we have to do our best for them but I was wondering if I would have been better advised to just have made her vomit at the time and just kept her warm and comfortable here at home where she was happy rather than have such a stressful death for her? Has anyone had any experience of how to handle this?

[Rosemary]

I would have done the same as you. You did your best - who's to say the other option would have been any better.

[fosse]

thankyou for your support I just feel so inadequate about the whole affair Lx

[sabrina]

If you had not taken her to the very you would have been worried and upset that you did not give her the chance of treatment that may have save her. My thoughts are with you had such a sad loss. 

[carole h]

You did your best - we can't do more. So sorry for you loss - I love my cats and grieve when they go.
I always swear blind I won't have another... and put myself through the pain again ... but they have a way of getting into your life, don't they?!
Carole.

[sandy]

It's hard to know what to do, on a similar vein, I remember my dad going into hospital with a stroke, he had never been ill before and as he was weighting to be collected by the ambulance it was an unsaid understanding that he more than likely was not comming home again!!!! it was soooooo sad, he was in hospital for  weeks having all the treatment, tubes, probes etc etc and he died and I wished he could have just stayed at home,no messing, and gone to sleep...how can we not feel guilty, we provide care but only prolong the inevitable