I haven't been to the vet for a very long time. Both cats are healthy, eat well and poop well. I just want to make my older one comfortable in her golden years and would prefer hospice when the time is getting near.
Hospice as in a place where your cat could be given palliative care? Or are you just talking you giving palliative care to your cat? A number of years ago we had a dog who got cancer. We did not opt for cancer treatment (much to the vets eternal displeasure). She lived a pretty good life until the last month or so. But she died at home, in her bed with us where she had been most all of her life. I wouldn't be anxious to have to have another dog die that way, but I can think of worse ways. We have a dog that had a death wish. She is much safer, but infinitely less happy now that she is mostly leashed. I think she was hoping for a more exciting end. We shall see. She's an old broad with a fascination with taunting snakes so...
Hospice is where I give her palliative care at home where she feels comfortable the most. Death is something we have lost touch with. As caring pet caregiver we want to help, heal, fix, and we have pushed death to a corner. It isn't in our homes the way it was 100 years ago, we treat with medicine and fix everything. Well, everything dies and changes eventually and I think our pushing it so far out of our day to day life has left us unprepared and with a false notion that it should be easy. It isn't always quick, but what it is, is a rite of passage we all face in our own way and deserve to be supported through it.
My mom's family laid their dead relatives out in the table in what they called the summer room. I'm not to anxious to be that in touch with death! But my mom died at home with me and my husband. Peacefully. Probably the only peace she has had in her life. A good way to go if you have the wherewithal to do it. Conversely, my MIL died in the hospital alone after a generous helping of Remdesivir. Not sure how to express my feelings fully on THAT way to go without being nasty. So NOT optimal.
I hope I OD on chocolate and pass out with a blissful smile on my face and am found quickly. Trust me on the quick part.
I haven't been to the vet for a very long time. Both cats are healthy, eat well and poop well. I just want to make my older one comfortable in her golden years and would prefer hospice when the time is getting near.
Hospice as in a place where your cat could be given palliative care? Or are you just talking you giving palliative care to your cat? A number of years ago we had a dog who got cancer. We did not opt for cancer treatment (much to the vets eternal displeasure). She lived a pretty good life until the last month or so. But she died at home, in her bed with us where she had been most all of her life. I wouldn't be anxious to have to have another dog die that way, but I can think of worse ways. We have a dog that had a death wish. She is much safer, but infinitely less happy now that she is mostly leashed. I think she was hoping for a more exciting end. We shall see. She's an old broad with a fascination with taunting snakes so...
Hospice is where I give her palliative care at home where she feels comfortable the most. Death is something we have lost touch with. As caring pet caregiver we want to help, heal, fix, and we have pushed death to a corner. It isn't in our homes the way it was 100 years ago, we treat with medicine and fix everything. Well, everything dies and changes eventually and I think our pushing it so far out of our day to day life has left us unprepared and with a false notion that it should be easy. It isn't always quick, but what it is, is a rite of passage we all face in our own way and deserve to be supported through it.
My mom's family laid their dead relatives out in the table in what they called the summer room. I'm not to anxious to be that in touch with death! But my mom died at home with me and my husband. Peacefully. Probably the only peace she has had in her life. A good way to go if you have the wherewithal to do it. Conversely, my MIL died in the hospital alone after a generous helping of Remdesivir. Not sure how to express my feelings fully on THAT way to go without being nasty. So NOT optimal.
I hope I OD on chocolate and pass out with a blissful smile on my face and am found quickly. Trust me on the quick part.