Arlen and Calanacrafts, my sympathies go to you both. I can understand your pain as I lost my cat, Cloud, at the age of 19 this past summer due to kidney failure. She required weekly transfusions to keep her kidneys going the last eight months of her life and finally succumbed to a heat wave.

She might have lived a shorter time in human years, but she was a tough cookie even in her old age. When I started to bring in other cats I had rescued from the street, she dominated them right up to the end.

I'm sure that the care you and your wife gave your precious creature let him live a far better life than he might have otherwise known.