a sad, sad day

unlike the rest of the dog-lovers in my family, eric and i both share a love for cats. for those of you who know us, we have two cats who look just alike...whobbie who would be 21 next may and luna who is 4. eric found whobbie when she was just a day old and he has raised her ever since. we noticed over the weekend that whobbie looked to be in some pain when she was getting up from laying around. we had a vet appointment today, so we figured we would wait it out and tell the doctor about it when we saw him (he has been whobbies vet almost her whole life, so he knows her well). well when we got to the vet, we didn't get good news. whobbie was in what seem to be kidney failure and it was pretty bad. she had lost over two pounds in the last year leaving her at a mere 4 1/2 pounds. the vet told us that it wasn't looking like she had very much time and of that time left, she wouldn't be comfortable. we were given the option to go home with her and he would send us with some pain medication or we could go ahead and put her to sleep there. it was a very tough decision, especially for eric, but we decided to avoid having her suffer anymore and went ahead and sent whobbie to heaven. we cried most of the day and wondered how luna would handle loosing her best friend, even though whobbie didn't like her very much!