Dealing with an old, sick cat. Treat or let die?

DreamOfAngels wrote:

I can't even tell you the incredible timing of this post. On Friday, April 2nd, I had to have my 15 yr old cat euthanized.

Timely for me too :(

Our oldish cat - over 15 years and who went blind in the last year–had to be put down Saturday morning. He woke us up with this horrible crying sound at 3:30 am and we thought he was going then. Stretched out and something obviously wrong. He settled down and started crying again a couple hours later. As soon as we could we took him to an emergency vet. He had some kind of neurological problem like a stroke/blood clot and could not even stand up so we had to have him put down. It was sad but like others have said, you remember the good times and he really had a pretty good life. It was really hard to tell my son when he came up later in the day asking about his cat!

Odd that the O.P. hasn't checked back in with an update. Perhaps he continued to do nothing, satisfied that 'weeks of diarrhoea' meant 'dying of old age.'

Fifthelement wrote:

Not that the O.P. owes you and explanation or an update, but they did reply to this thread once. What were you expecting? An itemised account of what the vet reported to the O.P.? Your arrogant and patronising attitude (not just in this thread) is really quite unbecoming

He doesn't owe me anything. He owes that cat.

To me, taking care of the sick is common sense. It's kind. It's right. I'm sorry if you find it 'unbecoming' of me to type such an obvious truth.

in our office a cat is worth at least half a day.