A Small Piece on Cats and Christmas

Just a quick blog post to catch up on events over the weekend. It's been a mish-mash couple of days.

Friday was a laugh with the UBU staff / sabb Christmas part in the Midland Hotel with a meal that was very nice and just the right amount of food, though the dance that followed was unintentionally hilarious with the, lets say, older people elsewhere in the room preferring waltzes to Weezer. But, with games in the City Vaults after, it was a cracking night though I was in bed for ten thirty as I'm a lightweight!

Today was not so good. It's been coming for a couple of months but finally we had to make the decision to put one of our cats - Katie - down. Two months ago she was diagnosed with liver cancer and, though medication has helped her, she was in pain and struggling so the difficult decision had to be made. It was emotional to say goodbye and we buried her in the back garden. Only time will tell what impact it will have on our other cat, her sister, as she adapts to not having another cat with her.

I think the most eye opening part of the day was that the medication to put her down - an injection that took less than twenty seconds - cost £80. That's a lot of money for a short space of time. Not that I wouldn't have paid it but it's a lot for what it is.

So after ten years it was sad to say goodbye to Katie. It's true what they say about pets becoming part of the family.