Sad Update

Beau is gone. She's actually been gone since May 15, but I am just that bad at updating my blog.

She died in my arms. The vet assured me that The Husband and I made the right decision. Beau had gone on a quick decline, indicating to the vet that more was going on than just the kidney disease (probably cancer). I bawled and called The Husband from the animal hospital, then bawled more while they gave me time to say goodbye to The Pretty Beau, then the vet came in to take care of things, and I bawled some more. They gave me all the time I needed afterward in the exam room with my deceased sweet girl. I finally went home, cried a little more, then waited for The Husband to get home from work.

When he got home, we cried and found a good spot in the yard (near a lilac bush and a flowering crabapple tree), The H dug a hole and picked a new daffodil to lay on top of the box with our baby inside. We cried. She was gone.

It's been a week and a half and I still ache. Not as much, but enough. She was beautiful and affectionate and we miss her very much. She enhanced our lives for 12 years and for that I am grateful.

On the way home from work today I stopped at the Minnesota Valley Humane Society where we picked up little baby Beau so long ago. I asked if they wanted her food (we still had pouches and cans of food that we cannot use for our other cat Monti - he'll barf it right up). I told the lady behind the desk about my Beautiful Beaujolais and she humored me nicely (she did actually seem interested, but then again she works at a humane society... she must be into animals!). She offered me a donation receipt, but I just told her that this was to honor Beau. No receipt necessary.

I miss my baby.