Most upsetting.
Douglas Clark, Bath, Somerset, England ....
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From: "Ivy" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 2:31 PM
Subject: Sad News
> Our cat Angus became ill on Friday night with a urinary infection. We
> hoped that he was getting better but sadly he passed away yesterday. Angus
> was 17 years old. His infection was clearing up and the results of a blood
> test looked hopeful but the illnesses he had, we think, just became too
> much for him. He had cysts (which didn't trouble him), a heart murmur, and
> he was coughing a great deal during the last two weeks of his life.
> Yesterday early in the morning he woke up in a state and we called the
> vet. Sadly before she could arrive he died of heart failure. There wasn't
> much the vets could do given his age and his heart murmur.
>
> My husband is devastated. He had Angus for four years before he met me. We
> also keep canaries, budgies, and Gouldian finches. Angus never worried the
> birds: he took no notice of them. He used to sleep under the budgie cage.
> He was outstanding with them, especially considering that before I moved
> in and we started to keep birds he had the whole house to himself. After
> we bought our first budgie we kept him downstairs and shut all the doors
> when we weren't home so he couldn't go upstairs to the birdroom. He never
> complained. He was a devoted, gentle cat. He guarded our house from other
> cats but he never fought. He was one stone 4 (18 pounds) of muscle: we
> joked that when the other cats saw him they ran away.
>
> Yours,
>
> Ivy
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