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think its her name anymore. Her body is the Crying again.

same color, but she's gone. She looked at a chart and I looked at it

So we stopped the car and my mother and mommy said "Did you want to see what

had the cat back by this time. She was cradling she was reading," and I said yes. It was about
~er in the towel. As we got out of the car I said, FlV. Feline Immunodeficiency Virus or some-
thing of the kind. The symptoms were: stops
Nobody tell Double good bye. She doesn't
grooming, weight loss, dehydration and all this
have to know that we're leaving," We walked
stuff that Double had and the cat was at risk if
up to the vet. There was dog crap on the
they went out unsupervised and all this other
ground. Nice. And it was raining.
stuff that Double did. That was her, so we
We walked in the vet and they asked us
guessed that that's what she had. Whatever it
to put the cat on the scale. was, I know she doesn't have it any-

She was 3.3 pounds. more.
A nurse came in and said some
We were in disbe-

lief. We knew she had lost weigh stuff. We were crying so I guess it was

but we didn't know how much. a bit awkward for her. "Long life for a

We bandied numbers back and cat ... and blah blah blah," She called

forth, four pounds, five pounds. so the cat a "he" and I said, "She's a
Mommy said "Her bones have to girl." She must not have cared, she

weigh more than that, when she jointed. But it left.
Washealthy she was only nine,"
So the insensitive nurse said to was great and The doc came in and said

put her on the scale 'one last we got to some stuff. He had a nurse with him.

fune ' to retake the weight. My And as my mother was holding the cat
mother said "I don't like the
Sound of that," No one did. Who laugh. Double the nurse gave her a tranquilizer.
When this nurse referred to the cat she
seemed to like said 'he or she.' I liked that. The vet

~~Uld?But you can't say every- it." said it would take a couple minutes to

hlDgnght every time, poor go into effect. He called the cat a he. I

nurse. I suppose she probably felt said, "She's a girl," but he left too.
bad too. That time it said that she was 3.5
pounds. Again ... sorry.
We were in there with her alone for some
So then it was time to go in the
minutes and she would drift off to sleep, but
room. We looked at an age chart on the wall
then every couple of seconds she kept jerking
that said Double was only around 88 years old
in cat years. Pshaw. We knew that she was over back awake. She didn't like to be taken off
guard, you know? She was a fighter, a fighting
a 100. And that's what I sad. Then Double
cat if there ever was one and she was good at it
turned and looked at another chart on the wall.

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