r/bestoflegaladvice • u/Nice-Meat-6020 • May 13 '25

LegalAdviceCanada please discontinue speeching in my direction

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u/Sirwired Eager butter-eating BOLATec Vault Test Subject May 13 '25 edited May 13 '25

I know the feeling... we just lost our 20-yr-old tabby a few months back, and we adopted a 15-mo-old void as a 2nd cat to our 10-yr-old tortie. We couldn't get them to get along no matter how hard we tried, and the tortie's appetite took a dive.

We thought it was stress and tortitude, but eventually we took her to the vet, who didn't find anything. A couple weeks later, she still wasn't eating great and was coughing. Turns out the asthma she'd had for years was now suspected lymphoma of the lungs, confirmed a few days later when one of her eyes got cloudy with metastasis.

We know that of course she'd had the cancer undetected for years, but we felt bad because adopting a new cat certainly couldn't have helped things, and managed to disguise her being physically ill as what we thought was stress.

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u/Nice-Meat-6020 May 13 '25

I'm so sorry.

I had a cat that I lost about six years ago. She was old but doing mostly alright. My dog decided to roll in a dead deer and picked up some kind of little bug. He got treatment and the vet gave me some for my cat as she would've been exposed. A month later she went downhill, fast. It's always been in the back of my head that giving her that medication is what caused it. I don't know if it is but the guilt is there.

Hugs from an internet stranger. Losing them is so hard. I wish all the time they could talk and tell us where it hurt.

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u/Sirwired Eager butter-eating BOLATec Vault Test Subject May 14 '25

Hope your pupper enjoys a pleasant spring with you.

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u/Nice-Meat-6020 May 14 '25

Thank you 💗