This is in memory of your baby boy, Azul!!!.
Azul was our baby boy. When I moved over 24 hours from my family and moved on my own. I went looking for a dog since I was never really a cat person. I ended up going to someones house who takes in strays and what better way for me to get a pet and show them some love and was hoping for some love back. I believe in animals finding you vs you finding them. Well there was this tiny little kitten, white with blue eyes crossed blue eyes. I asked about the kitten she told me the story about how someone called her because there was a cat in their back yard with a privacy fence so she went out trap the cat and
within hours the cat had given birth.
Someone came about 4 weeks later and took the mom and all of the kitten except for this little white fluff. They were going to take this kitten and put it down. Well the kitten and I feel in love and I could not do it to the kitten so I ended up with a kitten that day and did not even think of getting a dog. Boy he was so cute. I brought him home and he did great. He was too young so I had to feed him a bottle, my baby boy. I thought I might get another one in a few months so it can keep him company so I would put a mirror down and boy did he make me laugh. He was so funny and a lap cat.
It took me about 3 weeks to name him. Then it hit me Azul, because of his amazing blue eyes. He slept with me layed with me. He was an indoor cat only and was never allowed outside. Well later I meet my now husband and Azul loved him but then would just off on him my husband thought the cat did not like him. Well his daughter would come over and the cat loved her and she loved the cat, it was a fast bond. I later bought a house which had a great screened in patio and he just loved it. He would try and chase the leaves that would fall or the lizards around in the patio he would also sun bath.
I remember when my daughter would feed him with a fork and spoon ham. He loved ham, I swear he would even say it when he mowed. He did not mind water either. I use to bath him once a day when he was a kitten. I remember we were in the hot tub and our daughter was in there with us and since he loved her so much he would follow her around he jumped up on the hot tube and feel in. He was soaking wet.
It was so so funny.
Then we decided to expand our family and got a dog, Loxie. She also was a stray and is the best doggie ever. Azul loved her so much and hated when Loxie went out and left him. Loxie on the other hand loved Azul but could of cared less. Until today Azul has been gone 5 days and she is not doing real good.
Azul would travel with us when we went place. He flew on an airplane all of the time. Of course with me in the cabin I could not put him under the plane I just could not.
Fast forward to the past month and half. It has been and up and down battle with him this past month and a half. He stopped eating and drinking took him into the vet thinking he had some type of cancer or kidney failure, we were wrong he had pneumonia, great news I thought, give him some meds and he will be fine, well after the first dose he still was not breathing well or eating so we got one more dose of meds. However, when they took the x rays the first time they saw something but wanted someone to come in to read it. Well we took him in again because he was still not eating and she could not tell me why because his white count looked better. So good news right, just get him to eat and he should be fine. Well until we got a phone call and listened to it on the machine. He has heart failure with maybe cancer in the lungs. That killed us, they thought he was in the last stage of that, but we could do this procedure to see how bad everything was but he would only last 6 days, 6 weeks or at the most 6 months. Well I make the choice to have it done. Then a few days before hand we canceled it. He was getting worse and did not want him to have to go thru all of that and suffer.
After speaking to the vet again, we made the apt. This past Monday he had it, Great news, no heart failure and no lung cancer he has a infection in his lungs they pulled 40 cc of infection out of his lungs and around his heart and he was breathing better. Boy that was the best news every I was just so happy. Well Tuesday night he took a turn for the worst and could hardly breath took him in Wed to the vet. They had to do ER surgery about 3 pm Wed and pulled another 160 cc out of him. His lungs were falling and his white count was very high and he just lost so much weight (he went from 15 pounds down to 4) he just was not going to get better and passed. We got to say good bye but it was the hardest thing I have ever had to do, besides telling our daughter.
He was a young cat he had another 10 or so years left in him. It still breaks my heart that I can not even talk about him with crying. I still can not believe he is gone and will not be back. We have never been without him for more then 3 days. It is just killing us.
Azul, I love you and miss you. You are the best boy ever……
Baby Boy,
| Azul |
| Beth, Allen, Samantha and Loxie |