The Loss Of My Furbaby Todd

by Jessica Barker
(Leeds)

My little furbaby cat Todd passed away on the 23rd of November 2017. He was only 6 years old. He was found by my Mum while I was at work and he was laid on my Mums dog's bed. She went to pick him up and when she had put him down he had just dropped to the floor which means he had no use for his back legs.

Bear in mind he wasn’t ill, hardly ever went to the vets in his life so that morning seemed just a normal day for us while the night before he was just laid on my bed as he used to do a lot. He was crying in pain and my Mum knew there was definitely something wrong. She then tried to put him in our walk in shower to just let the water steam up for him as she thought it would help with his breathing as he was breathing rapidly and also thought it would clear his airways. He tried to drag himself out of the bathroom with again no use of his legs. I had to go home and he was laid on the sofa on his side just struggling to breath but didn’t cry.

We was able to get him to the vets within an hour after finding him and they said they couldn’t do anything for him because he had a fracture and it had affected his spine which means again he had no use for his back legs at all. As he was completely fine the night before we had no clue to how he managed to get a fracture! The vet had said it could have been an old fracture and even with him just moving and jumping about could have caused it to just brake!

I just then broke down in tears and I honestly couldn’t control or keep myself together. It has now been three days and I’m honestly so heartbroken. He’s played a big part in my life and I’m so so gutted and all the words. I’m lost, he was always the first to want to go out with his little kitten meow, he loved crunchy foods more so crisps. I could never eat something crunchy without him standing in front of me wanting some.

He also liked sitting sleeping on me and my partner's laps, he loved his strokes. I feel so lonely because of what’s happened and I think it hurts more because of how it happened. We will never know how he got the fracture that sadly ruined his life and because there was nothing the vet could do I had to do the most hardest decision in my life, which was to have him put to sleep.

Sweet dreams my little freckle nose Todd I’ll always always love you and there will always be a hole in my soul where you belonged. I’ll see you again, until then have fun and enjoy animal heaven. God look after your soul sweet boy.