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

[Ted Grant]

Nathan mon ami,
Having had the pleasure over the years of enjoying your many photos of Cheeta I also sat here and shed tears at your post of her passing.
In our family it was always cats. I even had the strange experience back in the Ottawa days when a pregnant female cat was lying in my lap one evening when she made some very strange sounds moved around kind of strange like and began delivering her litter in my lap.
We knew she was close "HOWEVER?" not this close? I had a big blanket under her anyway so I immediately put her into her big box where over the next while she delivered 5 little ones!
So over night we went from 3 adult cats to 8. 
And we grew up with the little ones as they did with us. As they became older and began chasing around in big circles through the lower level of the house it was amazing watching them grow. Eventually we gave them to friend families living by around the neighbourhood.
As they were learning to acclimatize to their new digs, often those living nearby would turn up at our back door. I would have to take them back to the new digs quite often. An emotional bit of experience each time.
When we moved to the west coast of CANADA Irene and I drove our cars and 5 cats were flown out as soon as we were settled in our new home.
But pets aren't strangers...THEY ARE PART OF YOUR FAMILY! And what happens to them is felt by the whole family and at times? That can be as sorrowful as losing a human being of the family.
In time another pet will sort of replace Cheeta, but never replace the feelings one had!
cheers,
Ted 

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From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Nathan Wajsman
Sent: October-30-17 11:24 PM
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Subject: [Leica] Nathan's PAD 30/10/2017: goodbye to Cheeta

Many of you have already seen this on Facebook, but for the rest of the list:

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. 

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

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.

This morning, for the first time since 2000, I woke up in a house without pets.

Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
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