I hope you are coping with your loss okay and your friends are sympathetic. Sometimes other people don't understand how devastating the loss of one of our companion animals can be.

You did everything you could to help Princess. You took her to the vet right away when she was first sick, and again when she lost her appetite. We all wait a few days with loss of appetite because it almost always rights itself. Princess' condition was very serious and I'm sure the vet did everything they could to keep her systems from shutting down.

Mother Nature is a mean mother and is in final control. I've butted heads with her many times, trying to control when a sick pet dies and how (gently, at the vet's, in my arms) but have had to accept sometimes I've lost to her.

Pain control is uppermost in the minds of most vets these days and I feel confident they would have made sure Princess knew little of what was going on around her.

Do you have a photo you can post?