Goodbye Panda

Last Friday we lost Panda. He had been a member of our family for four years. Prior to that he was Erik's parents' cat so we have known him for awhile. We weren't exactly sure of Panda's age but we are thinking he was about 19 years old. The past 6 months he has really gone downhill. We watched a video of Panda from a year ago and he seemed like a different cat. 

Panda and Twinkles sharing a meal

The kids and cats

Shaved Panda

A week ago Panda was walking and then he just fell. That seemed odd to us but he had been having trouble walking for the past several months. On Friday Sarah said that Panda was stuck in the litterbox. I went to the litterbox and he seemed fine - just hanging out in there.

Well a few hours later he was still there. Erik picked him up out of the litterbox and he couldn't walk. We knew it was bad. We didn't know whether to take him to the vet then or wait until morning. The fear about waiting until morning was that the kids would find him dead. So Erik took him that night to the vet. They took a look at him and said he wasn't going to make it. We were not surprised. I got to say goodbye to him though so that was good. He was a good cat for our family.

The kids are asking for a new cat but Erik wants us to be a one cat family. Twinkles doesn't like other cats anyway. She ignored Panda.

We will miss you Panda!