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Should I keep my cat alive?
We had a cat that ran off a few years ago and is now semi-wild. He is
15 years old and comes around about once a week. I suspect some other neighbors feed him. During winter, he never comes inside our house any more and I have no clue where he sleeps. I do take him for rabies shots and during recent visit he was diagnosed with diabetes (it cost me $250 for tests). The vet says I need to give him insulin shots and keep him on a special diet. I'm assuming the insulin treatments won't be cheap and I have no way of controlling his diet since he runs around all the time. He lost a lot of weight and looks like he doesn't have much time left. What is the proper thing to do? I can't bring myself to take him down and have no easy way of treating his diabetes. Thanks Ron |
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Charlie Wilkes wrote: You're an adult, Ron. You have to make hard choices. If you don't put him down, he'll hole up somewhere and die by slow increments, or else get torn apart by predators. Charlie I wouldn't put him down yet yes, he's losing weight, and getting slower I would try to keep him inside and I would also find out how much the shots cost (if it meant that much to me) Ron just assumes the shots are outrageous and understandably so, (he just paid out 1/2 the vets car payment or something) Are these shots available online? would a proper diet negate the neccessity for shots? |
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