[Leica] Nathan's PAD 30/10/2017: goodbye to Cheeta

[Sonny Carter]

I'll miss Cheeta too.



On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 7:51 AM, RicCarter <ric at cartersxrd.net> wrote:

> I feel a personal loss after watching Cheeta for som many years here.
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> We share your tears.
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> > On Oct 31, 2017, at 2:23 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
> wrote:
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> > Many of you have already seen this on Facebook, but for the rest of the
> list:
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> > Yesterday we lost our beloved doggie Cheeta, our companion for more than
> 16 years. Here are two images from the beginning and end of her life.
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> > This one was taken in October 2001 in our house in Zurich. My wife has
> just given 5-month old Cheeta a bath and is now drying her with a thick
> towel:
> > http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-r4Fc4gw/A
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> > Cheeta has been declining for the past couple of months—we all get
> older, after all. But the decline accelerated in the past two weeks, to the
> point where Cheeta stopped eating and was not moving around a lot, although
> there were occasional flashes of activity. So on Saturday morning our vet
> for the past 10 years, Isabel, did a blood test and a sonogram. The
> sonogram showed a tumor on her liver, but what was causing her symptoms was
> that her kidneys were no longer functioning—the same illness that killed
> our kitty a last year. Here, Isabel is extracting the blood sample:
> > http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-D7WL7pD/A
> > Cheeta hung on for the weekend, but yesterday it was time. I left work
> early, picked up Monica at the university, and the three of us went to the
> vet together to accompany Cheeta on her final journey.
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> > This morning, for the first time since 2000, I woke up in a house
> without pets.
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> > Nathan
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> > Nathan Wajsman
> > Alicante, Spain
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> > YNWA
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Sonny
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