Saying Goodbye to our Carter

As many of you know, Carter and Shelby (our cats) are very much a part of our family. Over the past three weeks, Carter (a three year old male) has been suffering from feline lower urinary disease and then a series of very painful complications.

To make a very long and sad story short, Tim and I had to make the excrutiatingly difficult decision last night to have him put to sleep. We have a wonderfully compassionate veterinarian who cried with us as we held Carter and cuddled him for the last time. Here are some of my favorite pictures of our wild, friendly, mischevious Carter bug.
We've got him buried in the backyard with a small, pink flower and a ribbon marking his little grave. He was a wonderful cat and we will miss him very, very much.

4 comments:

nanny fain said...

So sorry. He will be missed. Putting a pet down is such a painful decision. Enjoy the memories.

Meg said...

I'm so sorry Sarah. We had to make that decision almost two years ago now and it was so hard, although I believe the right decision.

Definitely remember the memories. There was a beautiful poem the vet clinic sent me when we had to put our dog down and it's on my blog. One of my first entries if you want to read it.

Sorry again for your loss. ♥

Camille said...

Awww this seriously makes me cry. That is such a hard decision to make. Obviously this was posted a while ago, but I've just now found your blog!! So sorry about your kitty!!!

Timmytaco said...

It still hurts to look at this..

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Saying Goodbye to our Carter

As many of you know, Carter and Shelby (our cats) are very much a part of our family. Over the past three weeks, Carter (a three year old male) has been suffering from feline lower urinary disease and then a series of very painful complications.

To make a very long and sad story short, Tim and I had to make the excrutiatingly difficult decision last night to have him put to sleep. We have a wonderfully compassionate veterinarian who cried with us as we held Carter and cuddled him for the last time. Here are some of my favorite pictures of our wild, friendly, mischevious Carter bug.
We've got him buried in the backyard with a small, pink flower and a ribbon marking his little grave. He was a wonderful cat and we will miss him very, very much.

4 comments:

nanny fain said...

So sorry. He will be missed. Putting a pet down is such a painful decision. Enjoy the memories.

Meg said...

I'm so sorry Sarah. We had to make that decision almost two years ago now and it was so hard, although I believe the right decision.

Definitely remember the memories. There was a beautiful poem the vet clinic sent me when we had to put our dog down and it's on my blog. One of my first entries if you want to read it.

Sorry again for your loss. ♥

Camille said...

Awww this seriously makes me cry. That is such a hard decision to make. Obviously this was posted a while ago, but I've just now found your blog!! So sorry about your kitty!!!

Timmytaco said...

It still hurts to look at this..

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