The world has become a scary place......
Wow! It's been a long time since my last post and the world has changed! Sadly, my world indoors has changed too. Four days ago, I said goodbye to my beautiful fur baby Sparkle and it broke my heart. She was a rescue cat and nearly twenty, though you would never have believed it, as she still looked like a kitten. Since losing my partner, she has been my constant companion and I’m feeling quite lost and empty. I‘m sure I wouldn’t have made it through lockdown without her and the love she has given to me. Nine days before losing her, she began to get a little wobbly on her hind legs and couldn’t jump to the high places where she liked to hide. I rang the vets and made an appointment - not easy in these times - for the following day. My daughter took her along, as I’ve been shielding, and after blood and urine tests they found she had a kidney disease and arthritis. Unfortunately, they couldn’t give her pain killers, because of the kidney disease and my poor girl deteriorated over ...