Randy has gone to the Rainbow Bridge

Randy

Randy was one of our "broken" fosters that stayed on. He was generally a really sweet cat but really never was a normal cat after we had to put Gypsy down a few years ago. For the past several years he has suffered from megacolon, which is a painful and unpleasant intestinal condition.

As a kitten, he was visually impaired and may have had some neural issues since he had a very stiff walk and acted almost like he was mentally compromised at times.

Randy with Gypsy

But when Gypsy adopted him, they became best buddies and were together most of the time. They would groom each other (mostly Gypsy doing the work) and sleep together every night.

Randy was never really the same after we had to put Gypsy to sleep and he stopped grroming himself and just became listless and unenthusiastic about anything.  The megacolon problem started becoming apparent about a year later. It was regularly painful for him and extremely costly to treat with drugs and therapy.


He had really been declining lately and seemed to have essentially given up the fight so we made the final, kind decision to euthanize him a couple of days ago. I took him in to save Judy the heartbreaking experience. She has been through this a few times for the others who went before him and it was just too much. When I took him to the vet's office, he was very calm and quiet and seemed almost thankful - like he knew exactly what was happening.

It hurts every time we have to do this and we will miss Randy, but we are relieved that he is finally out of pain and can rest.