Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/10/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 :-( > > Lots of love, > > Tina > > On Tue, 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 > > > > > -- > Tina Manley > www.tinamanley.com > tina-manley.artistwebsites.com > http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0- > 4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html > > > -- Tina Manley www.tinamanley.com tina-manley.artistwebsites.com http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html