Rest In Peace

Well this morning we went to the vet with Jemima the tortoiseshell cat and had her put to sleep. We realised a couple of weeks ago that it wasn't just that she'd gotten really fussy about food, she wasn't eating enough, and she'd lost a bit more weight than usual for summer. So last Tuesday we took her to the vet and discovered she had in fact lost a quarter of her total body weight and had growths all through her lungs. We took her home with some magic food and a long lasting steroid injection that got her her appetite back, but she started panting for breath all the time, so.

My brother dug me a nice deep hole in the back garden and she is now buried beneath the plum tree that we grew from seed and was outgrowing it's shrub pot anyway.

I am deeply sad about this.