My mom, sister, and I just got back from the vet. We had our cat, Miss Deadly, put down this afternoon. She had been losing a lot of weight recently, and her energy has been really low. Yesterday she became so sluggish that she could barely get up. We didn't think she'd make it through the day, but she did. She hadn't eaten in days. She couldn't even blink her eyes. The only way we could tell if she was still alive was from her belly moving up and down. The vet says her kidneys probably shut down, which means there's nothing we could have done. So we let her go. She went peacefully. She didn't have much left in her, as she had stopped breathing before the doctor was even done injecting her. She gave us a lot of love, and we all cried pretty badly. I love animals, especially my pets, of course. We only had her for three years. I'll miss her very much.

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