Good-bye, Felix

The day has come, sooner than I thought. After almost 10 years, Felix is not with us. He was our first "baby". We got him soon after moving into our house when he was only weeks old. Seeing him develop his meow to loosing his baby teeth. He even tolerated all 3 kids well, with no nips or bites, tho he didn't like me when I brought them home from the hospital,..don't blame him, lol. And far most, the best bed hogger ever (worse than the kids were). Best cat ever.
Felix had to be put down due to the reoccuring crystals and part behavioral problem. We didn't want to go into more treatments because we don't know if it would help or not and also we needed the money more. So the decision was made to have him put down. The worse, explaining to the kids that Felix won't be coming home with me and hearing all 3 say goodbye Felix, as I took Felix out the door (we had a longer hugging and kissing bond session before leaving). What made it better was to say that he won't be alone since the neighbors old dog, Boggs, will be with him. I reassured Isaac that he will not be in any pain what-so-ever, since he asked (about shots).

As for more pets in the future...don't know. Id love to have another cat, an orange one this time, since I never had that color of cat before, even growing up, and Id also "like", notice like, a teeny tiny dog (that stays teeny and tiny). Maybe one that can be litter trained....if possible, lol. But Carson IS allergic to cats, along with dogs, so we just don't know. And I myself developed an allergy to cats, after being pg with the kids. Each cat has different dander and plus we dont know how Carson would react to being around a dog all day, everyday. He does get flushed looking (Kianna does also, ugh-guessing she may be allergic too) when visiting people with dogs. So with that said, dogs may be out of the picture all together. Gerbel (can carson handle the bedding with his allergies or possibly the gerbel itself)? Fish again (but in a personal sized bowl this time)? Bird (handle the noise)? From now til then, we will settle with our Zhu-Zhu Pet.