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DH has taken our oldest most beloved cat to the vets, at 18 years old with thyroid problems and a dodgy leg...he isn't coming back.

I just wish he could of had a nicer last day, he just slept in his upstairs basket and I took him food and water.

I was hopeing he could enjoy the sun, but no sun here today

I know we made the right decision but I miss him already and Tigs is going to be so upset when he notices him missing. They usually sleep curled around each other

So now we are down to six cats, we have recently lost Sandy (he escaped via the front door never to return)

But one cat can't replace another.

George would sleep on my head (pre child when we let him into our bedroom). He aways purred all the time and wanted so many cuddles. We adopted him as an older cat, abandoned in a multi story car park. He was terrified of traffic and didn't wander far from home (in our last house)

He enjoyed sleeping with Tigs and sleeping in the sun on the warm paving stones. He use to be 'top cat' and would inist on first dibs of sleeping and food arrangements. Even when he got older and gave up his role of 'top cat' he still kept his food and bed rights

Despite his bad legs, he still managed to climb to the top of the 8 foot cat tree and despite his bad ears, he still managed to hear the lid coming off the wet cat food.

He has had a lovely life with us and the rest of our cat herd, but the thyroid problem needed another operation and there was no way he would of survived it, so we took him home and loved him over the last few weeks and when he looked ill, we knew we had to take him in.

Not only is the potty back in favor, she is rejecting the toilet unless she requested the visit.

i.e. I use to be able to take her to the toilet with me and pop her on 'just in case' and a lot of the time she would do a courtsey wee but no longer. I f I try and put her on the toilet, she wiggles straight off into my arms.

On the plus side she loves using the potty on her own downstairs and though she signals 'Toilet' and says 'T' to me when she want the upstairs toilet for poos, the rest of the time she goes and fetches the potty places it where she wants, wees and brings me the full potty

Yesterday she had her baby doll using the toy potty, whilst she was on the big potty...awww, how sweet.

Strangely we are having far more wee misses outside the house, as she won't tell me she wants to go until the last moment and if I try and take her early she rejects the toilet..Argghh.

But this is a positive forward step because she is doing it all herself and with the exception of a bout of diahora last week (which had a small amount of sloppy poo in her night nappy. first dealing with poo in nearly a year !!!) all the poo still goes in the toilet. Which in itself is worth ECing for.