I'm very sad to say that on Tuesday of this week we had to make the very difficult decision to put Maggie to sleep. She suddenly became ill a couple of weeks ago, and our vet thought initially something treatable. However when she wasn't respondng to treatment, there was further investigation, and it became apparent that she had a tumor of some sort. There was no doubt in our minds what needed to be done, and I was there with her.
Maggie came to us in January of 2001, when my old Tabby cat passed at the ripe old age of 14 1/2
. Our house has mice, so we obviously needed to get another cat. We got Maggie at the SPCA, and right from the first her person was Morgan ( who was only 6 weeks old at the time!). Maggie loved all the kids though, especially when they were babies. She is snuggling there in the playpen with Ella. At that point she was bigger than the baby!Maggie loved when there were babies in the house and could always be found sleeping in a car seat, or playpen. I even saw her in the highchair a couple of times.
Every night at bedtime Maggie would go up on the top bunk with Morgan, and would stay there until she was asleep.
She was a very gentle kitty, and never used her claws or teeth on any of the kids, although there were times when you couldn't have blamed her if she had.
We loved her very much, and she will be very missed.
