Yesterday morning, after a very short and debilitating period of illness, we had to put our cat 'Yorick' to sleep.
It was a very sad decision to make, but after examining him (for the fourth time this week) the veterinarian said it was time. Yorick was only a year and a half old, which made it all the more difficult.
He had a bad start on life, the runt of a litter of cats born on a farm near Berne, NY. He was constantly ill, but never with anything life threatening. This last bout of sickness was all his small frame could take, I guess.
He was a good cat though, and we loved him very much. We drove out to Erin's parent's home in Oswego County, and buried him on some property out there.
We'll miss him.