Over the past year or more, Sati has had many episodes where she looked like she was about to give up the ghost - in a minute or an hour or a day... and yet, maybe an hour later, she'd be trotting around, looking for something to eat...
Sati, a mixed breed, is at least 15 years old. She can only eat canned food and is just skin and bones. When you look at her, you wonder how she can be alive.
Now, she needs to urinate frequently. The past few nights we have been getting up 4 times to let her out. She had started peeing on the floor every night - she doesn't whine to be let out. After experimenting with a belled cat collar, which didn't work because it was not loud enough to be heard from the bedroom, I attached a dinner bell to her collar at night. So far it is working pretty well - except for the fact that we have to wake up every hour or two.
Last night, around midnight, when I laid her down (she has a hard time lying down by herself), she was shivering. I had covered her with her blanket and it wasn't very cold, so I thought that maybe she was in pain or scared...maybe dying. Her eyes did not look good. I sat with her, thinking, any minute - this could be it. And then something changed, and she looked like she was just going to sleep. And now, it is morning. We've let her out the usual 4 times, and she is snoozing again.
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