Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/10/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. > > We share your tears. > > ric > > > > On Oct 31, 2017, at 2:23 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> > wrote: > > > > 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 > > http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> > > http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu > > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws < > http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ < > http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> > > Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator < > http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> > > YNWA > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com/look/ Natchitoches, Louisiana 1714 Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase USA