I'm very sorry to read your post, Nathan. One of life's cruelties is that
our loyal four-legged friends are so short-lived. Take comfort in that she
had a full life with your family.
Charlie
On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 2:23 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Many of you have already seen this on Facebook, but for the rest of the
> list:
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> Yesterday we lost our beloved doggie Cheeta, our companion for more than
> 16 years. Here are two images from the beginning and end of her life.
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> This one was taken in October 2001 in our house in Zurich. My wife has
> just given 5-month old Cheeta a bath and is now drying her with a thick
> towel:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-r4Fc4gw/A
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> Cheeta has been declining for the past couple of months—we all get older,
> after all. But the decline accelerated in the past two weeks, to the point
> where Cheeta stopped eating and was not moving around a lot, although there
> were occasional flashes of activity. So on Saturday morning our vet for the
> past 10 years, Isabel, did a blood test and a sonogram. The sonogram showed
> a tumor on her liver, but what was causing her symptoms was that her
> kidneys were no longer functioning—the same illness that killed our kitty a
> last year. Here, Isabel is extracting the blood sample:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-D7WL7pD/A
> Cheeta hung on for the weekend, but yesterday it was time. I left work
> early, picked up Monica at the university, and the three of us went to the
> vet together to accompany Cheeta on her final journey.
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> This morning, for the first time since 2000, I woke up in a house without
> pets.
>
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
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