{"id":188235,"date":"2010-11-05T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T20:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/11\/05\/we-had-to-put-lavi-to-sleep-today\/"},"modified":"2010-11-05T15:50:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T20:50:00","slug":"we-had-to-put-lavi-to-sleep-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/11\/05\/we-had-to-put-lavi-to-sleep-today\/","title":{"rendered":"We Had to Put Lavi to Sleep Today"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lavi, June 2003 – November 5, 2010
You will be missed<\/span><\/div>\n

As I mentioned a month ago<\/a>, we took her in for what looked like a bad tooth, and it turned out to be an aggressive malignant tumor.<\/p>\n

She had stopped eating, is in pain, and is exhibiting difficulty moving, so we had to put her to sleep today.<\/p>\n

In the pictures, you can notice the swelling on the side of her head, and the unequal pupils from the effect of the tumor on her right eye.<\/p>\n

We buried her in the back yard, in the corner where the hill starts.<\/p>\n

I found her in July of 1993.<\/p>\n

I was driving from Orrville, OH, to Akron, and was sick and tired of the bottle of windshield washer fluid banging around in my trunk, so I pulled over to the side of the road, and grabbed the bottle, and popped the hood.<\/p>\n

Under the hood, I saw something furry, and moving.<\/p>\n

At first, I thought that it was a rat, but then I saw the ears and whiskers, so I picked her up, she fit in the palm of my hand, and she proceeded to puff herself up and hiss and spit in an attempt to intimidate me.<\/p>\n

I took her home, and gave her a saucer of milk, and went and got some cat food.<\/p>\n

The next day, I caught her brother, Tudza, who survives her, as they were crying to each other through the door.<\/p>\n

She is older than my marriage, and she outlived the car under whose hood I found her so it was a good run, particularly since she survived a bout of hepatic lipidosis (fatty liver) 5\u00bd years ago.<\/p>\n

Both she and Tudza imprinted on me, so I guess that I am their “mommy”, though she was also my daughter Natalie’s cat.<\/p>\n

Tudza is still alive and active, having never left his 1st<\/sup> kitten hood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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