I announce with a seriously grieving heart that Jean Luc crossed the rainbow bridge this morning [View all]

[Hugh_Lebowski]

We knew he had a heart murmur and the vet told me if he starts coughing regularly that I should bring him in, which he had been having short coughing fits a couple times a day for the past two weeks. But it took a week before they had an opening.

They had to I guess kinda forcibly lay him on his side for a chest xray at the vet and he basically went into respiratory failure. Drugs to make him pee didn't work. He spent his last hour on oxygen but he was still really struggling and the vet said 'it's time'. Mandy and I were with him when he passed giving him love and scritches.

I had NO idea he was in that bad of shape. It's super freaking heartbreaking, I loved this cat to pieces.

My sweet, handsome boy ...

Made it to 13 years, 4 months.