Sienna’s Gone
posted in General |We had our oldest cat pass away night before last. She was older than Malkin, but it was still sad. I don’t have any pictures of her- I just spent the last 30 minutes going through my digital photos and there are none of our tan and white shorthair kitty, so you’ll have to use your imagination.
We got her at the Humane Society in Eugene. For most of her life, she was our “fat kitty;” she weighed about fifteen or so pounds. Most of that was hair; she’d shed at the drop of a hat. She loved everyone, but she hated the outdoors. Once, when we lived in an apartment, we had to evacuate both cats for a flea bombing. Sienna spent those six hours hiding under a chair on the porch, crying.
Over the last year or so, she’s taken to sleeping in Miss B’s room, hiding from the other animals and from Miss K. She’s gotten very thin and frail, and we knew she was aging quickly. She liked being warm. When I came upstairs yesterday, she was laying in the living room gasping for air. I took her to Dove Lewis, and found out she was having congestive heart failure and that she had a lot of fluid in her abdomen. She’s sleeping easy now.
