About 7 hours ago now, we lost another one of our babies...
We had to take Lucky to the emergency vet almost two weeks ago and he had heart failure. We got some medications and took him home, and his symptoms were doing better the next few days. We took him to our own vet and they thought he had weeks or maybe even months left. Yesterday though, my mom found him lying on the floor, and he was gone... I got to say goodbye to him, but yeah... The last time I really saw him was Saturday morning because I'm staying at my brother's during the week.
Lucky was honestly the best cat. My Georgia has my heart, but Lucky had the most personality I've seen in a cat.
We got him back in September of 2011 after a memorial service for a child who attended our church and passed due to cancer. We needed cat food, so we went to Petsmart and met Lucky. His name there was Richie Rich lol
He was a stray before they found him and of course, they didn't know when his birthday was or anything, but he was several months old and the sweetest boy. We ended up taking him home even though we already had Sebastian, Aladdin, Abu, Jasmine, Pumpkin, Angel, and Amber (all of whom have passed now). I lost my Pumpkin in February of 2012 from kidney disease when he was just a few years old, so having Lucky helped with that some.
At one point, we found a bump inside his ear. My mom and I were both suspicious of it, so we took him in to the vet. They thought it was just a scratch, but they did a biopsy on it for us and it was cancer. He had a minor surgery on his ear and never had any problems after that. Around then is when I started calling him Lucky Ducky. We also got a really funny picture of him when he was out of it from the sedation.
A few months after that we moved, and then we got the Tacos... Georgia, Bandit, and Scarlett. They were his babies. He looked out for them, groomed them, cuddled with them, and... he taught himself how to open doors for them. All they would need to do is meow at a door and he would come running to let them in or out of wherever they wanted. We had to change some of our door knobs to ones that would lock because he was a very determined boy. XD
If we had a door locked and we were going in or out, he would dart through as fast as he could. This did get him in trouble about three (?) years ago now. I was cleaning a room and carrying a bucket of cat litter into the room, and I kicked the door shut with my foot really quickly trying to block him. He was on a piece of furniture beside the door and chose to jump from the furniture and out the door. He had done it before (and did it since), but that time his foot got shut in the door. My parents were out of town too, so I was home alone. It wasn't an awful wound, but he was hurt and it took a while to heal. I ended up taking him to the emergency vet. He had to be in a crate for a week so he wouldn't jump and hurt himself more, and he had to wear a cone to keep the bandage on. A few days after this was when I had my first bunion surgery on my foot, so we were both out of commission for a while.
He loved to jump. He could jump about five feet long, maybe more, from the top of a 7-foot piece of furniture onto another one that's about 5 feet tall. He could go from either direction too. I have videos of him doing it, along with opening doors and his dance.
He also did the cutest dance/paw thing/swimming. He did it in slowwwwww motion. He would stretch one paw out and just hold it, curled up, for about 10 seconds before switching paws. He would do it while standing too. My mom said he even did it at his vet appointment a few days ago and they were like ??? What is he doing? XD
Honestly, I can't believe he's done. I feel like it hasn't hit me yet... I wish I had been able to spend more time with him this past year. Georgia hates traveling, so she's been staying at my brother's place when I go home over the weekend, so I've basically been home like one day a week before coming back to Georgia. Both her and Lucky have hyperthyroidism, so they both get medicine twice a day. It may have contributed to his heart failure, and now I'm kind of panicking about Georgia because she's only about a year younger than him and her sister, Scarlett, suddenly had a seizure and organ failure and we lost her in May 2022.
I'm really really sad about Lucky, but now I'm worried about Georgia. Honestly I don't know what I'm going to do without her someday... She's almost twelve and a half now...
Anyway, yeah.
This was just a vent edit I did in less than an hour...
Life sucks, like always, ya know?
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