Kip my Bengal was put down Tuesday morning. He was diagnosed with lymphoma in August and was on a lot of treatment, it was going very well and he seemed to be very healthy and happy for about 12 weeks with a weekly blood test and different drugs, but then his red blood cell count dropped and he went downhill virtually in a day, it was normally his white blood cells that went up and down until the end when the red cell count just dropped. It was quite interesting how they mix the different drugs to try trick the cancer but was costing a lot (8% of ordering a Morgan Plus 4) and also keeping me busy giving him the different tablets, keeping an eye on him so I knew where he was to catch and give the tablets or for a vet visit etc. I am very sad but I felt it was time when we went for that visit even before the Chemotherapy specialist took him for tests.

My son left work for an hour to come to the vet for a last cuddle, my wife initially was not coming saying she had a meeting but phoned up 5 minutes later asking me to get the vet to wait, I expect she was crying a lot so her boss said she should just go as she is not going to be any good there. I got a fair bit of cuddle time waiting for them and he was rather chatty and happy (I think he had some painkillers given to him by the vet) and I am sure was happy to get to say goodbye to the whole family. He was doing really well but Monday he hardly moved, in the evening he got into the bath and seemed very upset, refusing to eat etc. I got him out and put him on the end of the bed but whenever I woke up he was lying there eyes wide open looking sad and not wanting to sleep, very unlike him (and most cats) to not be asleep.

He really was a daddy's boy and would be with me as much as possible and played a bit like a dog, He was called the puppy cat. But then he also did other things dogs (and our other cats) couldn’t do like jump onto the top of the shower screen and play with the water above my head while I had a shower. He had a lot of personality compared to other animals I have known, he meowed like a cat most of the time but would bark a lot like a dog to annoy the neighbours dog, chirp at the magpies and if he got annoyed him he could put his head right back and howl like a little wolf which I thought was hilarious, luckily the neighbours also thought it rather funny and he didn’t do it that often.

Finding a replacement pet with his character is probably not possible, but I will get another cat sometime.

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