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

[Tina Manley]

PS:  I"m sitting here in front of my computer crying over a dog I've never
met before!  How sad is that?

The LUG is a family of people and their pets.

Tina

On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 9:49 AM, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh, no!  I missed this on Facebook.  I will miss your wonderful photos of
> Cheeta and I know you will miss her even more.
> A house without pets is too quiet and lonely :-(
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> Lots of love,
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> Tina
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> On Tue, 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.
>>
>> Nathan
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>> Nathan Wajsman
>> Alicante, Spain
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