Stephanie Luman

I’ve had a very sad week. My cat, Q, had been having breathing difficulties for the past month and we had been to the vet at least 5 times with each treatment failing to get a response. The vet thought he had a severe upper respiratory infection and we had him on all kinds of antibiotics and steroids. His breathing became so labored that on Wednesday evening we took him to the emergency vet hospital and had him in an oxygen tent all night. The next day (yesterday) we took him to a specialist to get a scope done of his throat and found out that he had cancer of the larynx. This type of cancer is fast growing and untreatable. Apparently white cats are genetically predisposed for this and there would have been nothing we could have done to prevent it. I wish we had known sooner and he wouldn’t have suffered so much at the end.

At the specialist, my family gathered around and held Q while he was euthanized. We adopted him from the shelter when he was 3 weeks old and he would have been 16 next month. He was the most loving and sweet cat I have ever had.