Thanks for your comments about Pookie
I just want to thank everyone for taking the time and expressing your love and encouragement for my beloved Pookie. He was a wonderful boy. We took him to our vet every three days for fluid infusion. When he stopped eating I discovered he would eat canned boned chicken, and seemed to thrive a little. He never seemed to be in much pain except for the ulcers that would devlop on his gums. The antibiotics our vet gave him would clear that up inside of one day and then he would almost be his old self again. Not quite as spry, but just as loving. I am retired and he used to follow me all over the house -- even when he became sick -- I'd turn around and there he would be, looking lovingly at me with those big beautiful yellow eyes of his. Toward the end he stopped purring, and then his weight went way down and he became very listless. We knew it was time to let him go. I still miss him everyday and talk to him telling him we'll see again at Rainbow Bridge. He will have his final earthly resting place in our garden with other departed members of our feline family. They all have their own stone markers under the crape myrtle where there is sunshine in the morning and shade in the afternoon. Pookie was a one in a million kitty and I'll miss him as long as I live. God bless you Pookie. Until we meet at Rainbow Bridge . . . I'll love you forever, my Good Tiger!