Jul 22 2008
Sorry, Gink
Free to any home: Gink, an 18-year old, female, satanic, mean-ass siamese demon that pisses on rugs, vomits everywhere, wails constantly and spits fire. Not safe with other pets, small children, adults or the elderly. Declawed, but its claws are almost fully grown back. Eats live hamsters. Spayed. Current on all vaccinations.
This poor, old curmudgeon has been with Dorrie (and now me) for more than a decade, but her age and poor disposition have done her in. I’m taking Gink to the vet this afternoon for a date with the “big sleep” unless someone in a drug-induced bout of sympathy claims her.
She has not been happy with the new addition to the family and has taken on urinating on bathroom rugs and anything she can find in Anna’s room. We’ve had to keep every door to every room closed for the last three months to keep her away from her favorite marking areas. It doesn’t help that she vomits every other meal onto the carpet and we’re spending a fortune on Woolite carpet cleaner.
She’s always been an unfriendly and unapproachable cat. Dorrie adopted her from the Humane Society and without Dorrie, this cat’s life would surely have ended long ago. She’s had an otherwise good life for a nasty cat that will not tolerate humans. Nevertheless, putting a pet down is hard no matter what the circumstances are.
I’m sorry, Gink. I really am.
I’m sorry – this is always such a hard thing to do, even if you know it is the right thing. Sounds like Gink had a long, full life of happily tormenting the people around him, though.
Poor Gink (mean and diabolical though she may be)!
Tell us how you really feel!
Sorry you have to put her down :(
How I really feel is like a pile of shit. I hate doing that. I feel horrible. Poor cat.
[...] Mike’s right, Gink didn’t like people very much. Okay, she hated people, dogs, other cats and probably Mother Teresa. But I feel the need, since it was I who made the decision to have her put down yesterday, to make the case that I tried to give her a good life despite her nasty temperment. [...]