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Subject: [Leica] Nathan's PAD 30/10/2017: goodbye to Cheeta
From: kenphoto at cogeco.ca (Ken Photo)
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 10:00:26 -0400
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Deepest sympathies Nathan. I don?t think one ever gets used to coming home 
to an empty house. 

Ken

Sent from my iPhone

> On 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:
> 
> 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. 
> 
> 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
> 
> 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
> 
> Nathan Wajsman
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