I had always been a pet lover; raising pets were like raising kids to our family. Losing each of them had been a big pain for us. The leaving of Fatty and Titi was two major event during our life. I knew that it would be intolerable when the Dragoncat’s day come.
For the past 3 years, Dragoncat condition had deteriorated slowly. Her spine problem had become worst and slowly she lost her ambulatory ability. We would bring her around in a cage initially and later as her back condition become worst, we would carry her in our arms whole day.
Ving had given up the chance of going back to Malaysia during CNY and we had tried our best of staying with her, comforting her. She could no longer feed herself and we had to spoon fed her. She was in no pain and no fear as her appetite was good. She had been tamed like a domestic pet instead of being a prey. I knew that the day would come sooner and later and Ving had hoped that she would returned to the land peacefully in her sleep.
As my in law condition was fluctuating, Ving had however decided to pay a visit back to Boleh land earlier this year. I had arranged a window of 1 weeks so that Ving could go back for a visit. I would look after Dragoncat with the assistance of Yun during the period while Ving is gone. 10 days before the departure, Dragoncat had started to show sign of shortness of breath. The visit to the Vet had confirmed my suspicion, she had probably pulmonary malignancy leading to her respiratory failure. I knew before the consultation but yet at the time the Vet broke the news, I was still unable to control my tears….. We had to put her to sleep as only in the ICU box, she could maintain her O2 saturation. There was no way we could carrying her in our arm while giving any oxygen supplement. The decision was simple and straight forward then…
On our way back, we bough a few oxygen can for use on the returning journey and rented an oxygen machine. We decided to keep her one more night and summoned the kids to share the last night with her. At the grace of the great one, it was the last day for the school final. We picked up Yun and Xian on our way home.
I held her in my arm with the oxygen tube beside her nose that whole night. She slept well with all of us gathering in the living room with her that night.
The next day, we had taken her to the Vet as scheduled. We gathered around her during the final journey. She slept peacefully after the intramuscular sedation was given. We bid farewell to her and completed the final prayer thanking the Great one for his Grace. The sadness was beyond description for all of us…
We headed to the crematorium and the ritual was completed later that evening.
We had been through many events with Dragoncat. I complete level 100 as sorcerer in D4 during the last season with her in my arm. Ving had been pampering her whole day for the last 1 year and we had treated her as our third child. We had traveled with her thousands of kilometer during the 2 years; we had taken her north and south visiting Yun in her university and other places. She would show a smile after she had a good meal and we shared her joyfulness with her. She had been the longest living rabbit with the most travelling mileage in the island….
She did not leave us as in the way we had hope for however the Great one had arranged everything to pacify ours grieve in another way.
We had the chance to gather around her for her last journey; if what had gone as we hope for, she would had left us suddenly and the pain would be much intolerable…..
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