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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hear you OP. I had an 18 year old cat who kept chugging along but nothing major and I was just like I don't have time for this (also busy with 2 kids and was in the middle of RTO for my job). But at the same time I didn't want to put her to sleep just because I was being inconvenienced. I knew at that age, she statistically wouldn't be around too much longer so I just enjoyed her. A month later, I found a lump which the vet confirmed to be cancer and so I put her down a few weeks later. I feel mixed feelings. I feel like a bad person wondering when it would be over, but at the same time I do miss her. [/quote]

OP here.  So sorry for your loss.

I feel awful about this, but this is actually what I find myself hoping will happen. [b]That we’ll take one of them to the vet for some new symptom and the vet will say, “I’m so sorry, it’s cancer, your choices are to put her to sleep or shell out $50k for kitty chemo” and it’ll be an easy decision, and this will all be behind us. [/b][/quote]
You are not awful. It is tough.
At some level I felt "lucky" that it happened more or less this way for my 10-ish yo kitty.  Cancer more or less out of the blue and palliative care was a no brainer.
Miss her terribly but she lived a happy, minimally medicated life for another couple of months, and then it was clear that it was time.[/quote]

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