RIP Scylla

I can't believe my sweet girl is gone. She had a lot of nicknames over the course of the 17 years she spent with us. She and her sister Charybdis were known as The Monsters,  The Grumpy Girls and The Calico Twins. Scylla was known as Silly Scylla because she was a silly little thing, Love Bug because she loved to be petted and never got enough petting and when she was overweight Kitty Cow and Cow Kitty a name that stuck even after she had lost weight.

I keep thinking that if I had just taken her to the vet sooner maybe she would still be with us. But there wasn't any real indication that anything was wrong. I did notice that she seemed to be losing weight but she had been skinny for a long time. She was still getting around helping me in the garden back in October when we put the green house together and put the plants in it.

 And Thanksgiving she was still getting up on the dining room table and the kitchen counter tops.She did seem to be having a little trouble walking Thanksgiving but I put it down to the cold snap and arthritis she always came first thing in the morning for her Churu and thyroid medicine

 

 In fact she was back to climbing up on the dining room table the next day. And helped me make a start on getting the Christmas decorations out. And Chimera had the abscess on her face, I guess I will always wonder if Scylla would still be with us if I had taken her in at the same time I took Chimera in. But Scylla seemed fine. She was walking OK again, eating and drinking good. But she did seem really thin. I was letting her stay in the infirmary (the spare bed room) with Chimera as it was cold in the garage and she seemed to enjoy that.

But yesterday she seemed really weak and wasn't using her hind legs. It wasn't that she couldn't she rallied this morning and stood up after stuffing herself with canned cat food bought especially for her last night and this morning but her kidneys were failing and we had to let her go.  But oh how I wish we could have had one more Christmas together.