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Subject: [Leica] Nathan's PAD 30/10/2017: goodbye to Cheeta
From: tmanley at gmail.com (Tina Manley)
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 09:49:49 -0400
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Oh, no!  I missed this on Facebook.  I will miss your wonderful photos of
Cheeta and I know you will miss her even more.
A house without pets is too quiet and lonely :-(

Lots of love,

Tina

On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 2:23 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
wrote:

> Many of you have already seen this on Facebook, but for the rest of the
> list:
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> Yesterday we lost our beloved doggie Cheeta, our companion for more than
> 16 years. Here are two images from the beginning and end of her life.
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> This one was taken in October 2001 in our house in Zurich. My wife has
> just given 5-month old Cheeta a bath and is now drying her with a thick
> towel:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-r4Fc4gw/A
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> Cheeta has been declining for the past couple of months?we all get older,
> after all. But the decline accelerated in the past two weeks, to the point
> where Cheeta stopped eating and was not moving around a lot, although there
> were occasional flashes of activity. So on Saturday morning our vet for the
> past 10 years, Isabel, did a blood test and a sonogram. The sonogram showed
> a tumor on her liver, but what was causing her symptoms was that her
> kidneys were no longer functioning?the same illness that killed our kitty a
> last year. Here, Isabel is extracting the blood sample:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-D7WL7pD/A
> Cheeta hung on for the weekend, but yesterday it was time. I left work
> early, picked up Monica at the university, and the three of us went to the
> vet together to accompany Cheeta on her final journey.
>
> This morning, for the first time since 2000, I woke up in a house without
> pets.
>
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
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Replies: Reply from tmanley at gmail.com (Tina Manley) ([Leica] Nathan's PAD 30/10/2017: goodbye to Cheeta)
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