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Subject: [Leica] Nathan's PAD 30/10/2017: goodbye to Cheeta
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 07:23:53 +0100

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
Alicante, Spain
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