It seems like such a long time since we’ve lost one of the household, but sadly Anubis’ illness became too much today and she was put to sleep.
She’d been through a cycle of deteriorating and then recovering with intensive feeding and injected fluids twice last year. She never really fully recovered, though she gained a lot of weight both times.
Over the last few weeks the downward part of the cycle had started again and we’d decided to try and get her through it again with a programme of feeding her up. It hadn’t been as successful this time and after a vet visit on Friday, we also started injecting fluids. While she looked stronger over the weekend, she went quite sharply downhill yesterday and showed no sign of rallying today.
It’s never easy losing one of the cats or dogs, but it never seems right when they’re still young. Anubis was delivered to us by some of Kate’s students when she was still a kitten. They’d found her lost and after failing to find anyone nearby who’d lost a cat decided we were the obvious destination. That’s less than three years ago now and she was a skinny little thing to start with.
She seemed horrified at first to find herself in a house filled with dogs. I think it took her less than 48 hours to start punching Rosie and demanding that canines always backed out of the room when leaving her presence and absolutely never made direct eye contact, unless invited to do so. The invite would be a punch.
As with them all, we were fortunate to enjoy her company, even for the short time that it was.