Not to delve into details but unfortunately I’m gonna be rehoming my diabetic cat. My other cat doesn’t get along with him among other issues. I’ve had them both for 4 years now. Does the sadness go away?

  • NABDad@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    We had to re-home our cats because one of our kids was allergic. He was having a daily struggle to breathe, so we finally gave in.

    One of the cats wasn’t a problem. She was an adult, but she was small and looked like a kitten. Trouble was the other one didn’t look like a kitten. He looked like a mountain lion. I was concerned no one would adopt him. No kill shelters wouldn’t take him, and I refused to let him live out the last sad days of his life in a cage.

    I was talking to a vet, asking her for ideas, and I told her I’d have him put down before I’d let him die in a cage.

    She took both cats to their kennel and started trying to get them adopted. When a little girl wanted the smaller cat, she told her parents that they couldn’t separate them, so they took them both.

    That was about 20 years ago. I still feel terrible about it.

    Of course, now the allergic son is loving with his girlfriend and they have three cats.