Sad Sad News About Monty :(

3-16pm

This is a hard blog to write.  Monty was doing so well, but from Friday, he stopped eating. 🙁  At first I thought he was just being fussy, then I thought he could possibly be eating  somewhere else. By yesterday, I was trying to persuade him to eat bits of chicken from our Sunday lunch. He ate a little but really wasn’t interested. I woke up at 1am this morning and went to find him. It was raining and I found him on the patio on a chair. I bought him inside and tried tempting him with more chicken. He ate a couple of pieces.  I decided that if he still wasn’t eating when I got home today, I would take him to the vet. I phoned the vet and they said to bring him in immediately. The vet examined him and said he didn’t have a temperature and wasn’t particularly pale. He did two blood tests for feline aids and feline leukaemia. Both immediately came back positive. 🙁  🙁  The vet explained that there was nothing to be done for him and the humane thing would be to put him to sleep. So that’s what we did.  He has had a rough life, with many fights and lack of care.  We were blessed to be able to feed him, love him, play with him, nuture him and be absolutely besotted with him for just over 4 weeks.

We bought him home and buried him in the back garden. I am going to miss him! 🙁

But as we laid him to rest and I had a little cry and said a little prayer, David and I both concluded it was the right thing to do – he won’t suffer a slow and uncomfortable end.

Sadness!

The whole thing with death is that it comes to all of us. For those who have come to faith in Jesus Christ, this life is not all there is.

John 14:1-4 “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.”

Psalm 34:1 “I will praise the Lord at all times. His praise will always be on my lips”.

In His Grip,

Helga xx